Don't you just hate it when this happens-when fixing your car

[Mighty Thor]

I'm fixing the bird and I accidentally drop the snap ring in the engine bay. Now I can't find the darn thing.

I swear, I've dropped and lost small sockets, washers and nuts in the engine bay and I could never find them.

[ January 15, 2006, 04:10 AM: Message edited by: Mighty Thor ]

[shenanigans]

I usually dig them up... Its usually sockets or botls for me.

[MrCoffee]

mine fall through to the ground, so I guess I've been pretty lucky.

[dmw319]

once i left a pair of needle nose pliers underneath my hood between the wheel well and spot where the PCM is. found them two weeks later.. lol

[Fbody3400]

Theres a bolt for the alternator somewhere in the red ones engine bay.

[Gallstaff]

I found two screw drivers and an exacto knife in my engine bay near the driver's side wheel well. None of them were mine - they must have been there since I bought the car from a dealership a year ago.

[maxcamaro]

Originally posted by dmw319:
once i left a pair of needle nose pliers underneath my hood between the wheel well and spot where the PCM is. found them two weeks later.. lol

that happened to my dad haha

[that90spunk]

i was doing an oil change on this guys mountaineer, and found a steak knife under the hood.
Neither of us could figure it out.

[StrtRacer98]

Ive gotten pretty good at finding dropped tools.. usually beating on the body panels ,and the panels underneath until you hear it bouce.. then you track that dang tool until it drops.

[vanbibber]

the only thing i lose when working on my car is my mind,not tools.

[teal99camaro]

dude.. i always put tools down someplace or in my pocket. Takes longer to find the tool then the job entails.

[Johnny Ray]

Originally posted by vanbibber:
the only thing i lose when working on my car is my mind,not tools.

Hehe.

I have the same problem! :D

:cool:

[kristen]

just get a large magnet and your find it