Lost tools?

[gm280]

Just recently I was replacing the brake pads on the wife's Silverado pickup. Each wheel has one "keyed" lug nut which requires a special adapter to remove or install. I had completed the brake job reinstalled the wheels and snugged all lug nuts, including the keyed one on each wheel. So I go and get my 1/2 inch torque wrench to finishing tightening the lug nuts. Do you think I can find the lug nut key for the special lug nuts that I just used a min ago......................nope, its gone.................gone ,gone............... The Wife cant even find it. And to make matters worse, the job was started and finished without the truck or myself leaving the garage................go figure. I told the wife I think one of our retarded dogs picked it up and carried it off...................well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.:facepalm::facepalm:

OMG LT, I had a very similar experience just this morning.

I was changing the oil, filter, the TPS, the IAC, and a new PCV valve. Well the oil was no big deal, and the TPS (Throttle Position Sensor) and IAC (Idle Air Control) wasn't hard ether. However to change them I had to remove the air intake system from the air filter to the throttle body air intake. It comes off in basically one unit. And after I finished change everything, I was cleaning up the tools, as usual, and noticed one Torx screwdriver was missing. The TPS and IAC use torx screws. So I started looking, and looking, and looking some more. It was nowhere to be found. I mean I checked every possible place I could think of and no tool to be found.

Now I was only in my shop and the vehicle just outside my shop. So it had to be in one of those two places. So I retraced every place I was at during the work. And I looked everywhere. Then the wife showed up and we both were looking. We looked for over 30 minutes and couldn't find that torx screwdriver anywhere. I thought to myself, how can I loose a tool that I was using mere minutes ago?

I went in the house and took a shower and went back out and looked some more. And it dawned on me, I took the air system off the vehicle and I could have placed the torx screwdriver in the rectangular air filter section. And I removed the four screws that attach the air filter cover, and there it was, So I did find it but not after a long time looking. I guess after changing the TPS and IAC I laid the torx screwdriver on the actual air filter and started to install the air system back on the throttle body intake not thinking about the tool on the air filter itself and buttoned everything up. Stupid set in I guess. :facepalm:

 

[avenger79]

yeah worst one is when you forget where you put a tool only to find it when you close the hood. got lucky last time, instead of crack/crunch etc, I heard jingle jangle and a socket plopped out under the truck.

doesn't happen often but once is really enough.

 

[bonz_d]

While I was still working we would carry tool bags out onto the production floor. I got so tired of missing tools that I started buying the cheap stuff from HD or Menards. Also over the course of the last 2 years I had to replace 2 Fluke multi-meters because someone retuned them broken and didn't say anything.

 

[Patfromny]

Hey limited time...did you check the lugs on the truck. You might have left the key in the lug on the truck. I hope it's not too late to check. If it is I would check down your block a few houses. It couldn't have stayed in the lug too long.

 

[gm280]

While I was still working we would carry tool bags out onto the production floor. I got so tired of missing tools that I started buying the cheap stuff from HD or Menards. Also over the course of the last 2 years I had to replace 2 Fluke multi-meters because someone retuned them broken and didn't say anything.

WOW bonz_d,

Loosing tools is bad, but loosing Fluke multi-meters (DVMs) is costly. I can handle a tool here and there. Okay I don't even like that. But Fluke meters would be serious. I have a lot of meters. At least three Flukes and a couple Simpson 260's. I love those older Simpson analog meters for checking pots, capacitor charging and things like that. Easy to see a defective pot with a good analog meter. Not so easy with a DVM. I even have A Bruan AN/PSM-6 analog meter. But I really don't use it much at all. It needs special batteries that are no long produced and I haven't built a battery packs to make it work. I also have a few other meters but you get use to using one or two and the others just sit there. I would hate to loose any of my meters or any of my testing equipment. :cold: :blue: