Pickup ate my socket

[wulfman92]

I have a ‘06 Sierra half ton pickup with a 5.3l engine that needed a new water pump today. Pretty easy job, but the wind was blowing about 25 mph on a 40 degree day in the shade. Still pretty nice weather for January in Wyoming. Anyways, had a lower radiator hose being a bear and took quite a bit of persuading to get loose. I had a rack of sockets sitting on the air filter housing and as I was leaning over the tools to position myself to get full torque with my grip, I got her loose, but the 20mm socket came off the rack and I never found it. After some time, I had to admit, it was gone

[DCP]

Go back tomorrow and try again.

[chsparkman]

Sounds like my adventures in mechanics. Something always goes wrong.

[lefty o]

likely rolled down the frame rail. dropped a header bolt down one once. a few years later when it was time to upgrade engines in the hot rod again, there it was, stuck between the body and frame.

[pcolapaddler]

I lost a 15mm socket in the front of an Escort or Tempo when I worked at a Ford dealer about 35 years ago.

I wondered if that car 'developed' a rattle that wouldn't go away.



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[WheelgunConvert]

I have a ‘06 Sierra half ton pickup with a 5.3l engine that needed a new water pump today. Pretty easy job, but the wind was blowing about 25 mph on a 40 degree day in the shade. Still pretty nice weather for January in Wyoming. Anyways, had a lower radiator hose being a bear and took quite a bit of persuading to get loose. I had a rack of sockets sitting on the air filter housing and as I was leaning over the tools to position myself to get full torque with my grip, I got her loose, but the 20mm socket came off the rack and I never found it. After some time, I had to admit, it was gone

Couple suggestions. Use a penlight in near total darkness..it lets you be very deliberate with the beam and you might catch a reflection. Also, Try a flashlight color other than white can also be useful.

Good luck

[JimB..]

You’ve obviously failed to sacrifice a sufficient number of 10mm sockets in the past few months.

[Alstep]

I swear some of my tools went through escape & evasion training!!!

[Omega]

So one day I was finished working on my truck, and accidentally dropped my tool case and flipped a few sockets onto the grass, but when I finished picking them up I ended up with like 8 extra sockets. They were craftsman too, but from a different set. Never found out where they came from, nearest I could tell, someone else must have been fixing their vehicle in the same spot right before me. I still have them in a baggie, in case I ever find out who dropped them, I'm just glad my lawn mower didn't find them first.

[smoked turkey]

I am constantly losing things. It drives me nuts until I find it. I hope you run across that socket soon and it is safe and sound where you left it.

[EDG]

I was watching a guy when he dropped a bolt down the distributor hole of a 427 Chevy in a 1966 Chevelle.
He had to pull the engine to get the pan off.

[Three44s]

Look at the trouble we get into without really trying!!

A fellow who used to work at our ranch used to always exclaim he wished he had a “pair of eye balls on a stick”! Well, folks, you can trundle down to Harbor Freight and buy them now a days!

Just a thought.

Three44s

[Bazoo]

Might check on the shelf the radiator sets on if you haven't already.

I was tinkering on a car once, we got done and took it for a test drive. A while after we got back, I realized my leatherman tool was missing. I went out and looked under the hood and there it was laying there. Nothing holding it in place. I thanked God for it as it was my granny's tool before it was mine.

[abunaitoo]

Do what a damacrat would do.
Drop another one, in the same place, to see if you can find the first one.
If you still can't find it, drop another.
Keep on doing it until you get the results you want.

[DougGuy]

You’ve obviously failed to sacrifice a sufficient number of 10mm sockets in the past few months.

Ahhhh yes the sacrificial 10mm.. I actually buy several 10mm combination wrenches and place them strategically so that I am able to find one before my BP goes through the roof after about the 3rd lap around all common places I usually see one.

I had a metric socket set in my vehicle for the longest time, missing one of the smaller sockets, I kept an eye out for it but never found it. I had ASSUMED it was a 10mm just by their association with Murphy, (Of Murphy's Law fame) and I ebayed one. Lo and behold, the postman brings the lowly 10mm socket, and I go to replace the missing socket, to my surprise, IT'S NOT A 10mm AT ALL! It's an 11mm!! Now this just confounds all logic to me, but I digress, I gave in, one cannot have too many 10mm sockets and wrenches it's impossible to do, so now I have a full set of sockets again, and Murphy gets a reboot and a restart on which 10mm socket he will cause me to misplace. The original one or the "replacement."

[robg]

teaspoons go to the same place.

[Lloyd Smale]

cut the hoses. If the water pump is being replaced its silly to reuse the old hoses. There probably tired too after near 15 years.

[poppy42]

If I had a nickel for every socket wrench I lost while working on numerous vehicles I’d be a rich man today

[Three44s]

We planting small tools in our hay fields ..... not even once have a single one sprouted babies!

We keep waiting .... as hope springs eternal!

Three44s

[dverna]

Dropped a 10mm wrench working on my old Mercedes. Never could find the darn thing. Frustrating when it happens