Socket Dropped In Engine Bay

[phillyd2]

If its not rattling around when you drive it may not be on the skid plate.

What I would do is drop another one at the same place where you dropped the first one. The new one should be near the old one. :fishing:

 

[westwind77]

I'll put money on that socket being inside your engine skid. Take it off and check it out.

I dropped one of my black clips when doing my horn swap, that is where it landed. Now I 'cheated' and used a Borescope to find and and get it. Do any of your friends have one you can borrow or use?

 

[KidVermicious]

If he leaves it there here's what will happen:

About a year from now, he will be packing up to go on a long trip. He will be loading his 4Runner to the gills with people and gear. It will be the hottest, pavement bubbling day of the summer. He will take off and drive down the interstate. Several hours from home, out of the blue, he will have the worst rattling noise ever. It will sound like the front end is falling off. He will get out, crawl underneath to check. He will ruin something expensive (shirt, shoes) in the process. He will not find anything. He will repeat this several times throughout the day and end up calling a rollback to pick up his truck. This will only have happened after driving into the most desolate part of his trip and he has convinced himself that it is something terrible wrong with the engine and he cannot proceed any farther. He will have had to walk several miles through the desert to pick up a cell signal. He will not have brought along any water (assuming cell signal will be better 100 yards away) and get heat stroke. Eventually he will be found by hikers. After he wakes up three days later in the hospital with the worst case of sunburn ever he will remember this 8mm socket he dropped last year. It will have cost him several thousand dollars (hospital stay, clothes, tow truck) and his significant other wil eventually leave him for the tow truck driver as they got to know each other on the long ride out.

All this for a socket. Murphy's Law spares no one.

I see you've left a dropped socket before, sir.

 

[Antman]

...I heard Brockeverly dropped a socket in his engine bay and his rear shock fell off.

Just sayin.

 

[453030]

...i heard brockeverly dropped a socket in his engine bay and his rear shock fell off.

Just sayin.

lol.

 

[4ShoreRunner]

...I heard Brockeverly dropped a socket in his engine bay and his rear shock fell off.

Just sayin.

Yeah, I saw about 15 pictures of the socket in question in another thread.

 

[||ReT4Ribution||]

Damn... You guys are killing me here... LOL

GOOD NEWS!!! I got it out! :reddance:

On my lunch break, I tied a 9mm socket to some fishing line and drop it from the fastener I was tightening over and over and over and over... finally I heard the EXACT same sound from when the 8mm fell. Still I couldnt see the pocket where it was sitting, but I made a mental note of the area and pulled the socket and line out. Got my camra phone and took about 50 pics using different angles and looking at different areas, out of the 50 pics ONE had the socket in it.


Sorry for huge picture

Got a ride from a friend and bought a telescoping mirror and magnet. Using the picture as a treasure map, I got it out in 30secs :reddance:

 

[phillyd2]

So, what do I win? :banana:

 

[Mtn.Rush]

...I heard Brockeverly dropped a socket in his engine bay and his rear shock fell off.

Just sayin.

Ouch, now that's funny

 

[styler]

Poty

if he leaves it there here's what will happen:

About a year from now, he will be packing up to go on a long trip. He will be loading his 4runner to the gills with people and gear. It will be the hottest, pavement bubbling day of the summer. He will take off and drive down the interstate. Several hours from home, out of the blue, he will have the worst rattling noise ever. It will sound like the front end is falling off. He will get out, crawl underneath to check. He will ruin something expensive (shirt, shoes) in the process. He will not find anything. He will repeat this several times throughout the day and end up calling a rollback to pick up his truck. This will only have happened after driving into the most desolate part of his trip and he has convinced himself that it is something terrible wrong with the engine and he cannot proceed any farther. He will have had to walk several miles through the desert to pick up a cell signal. He will not have brought along any water (assuming cell signal will be better 100 yards away) and get heat stroke. Eventually he will be found by hikers. After he wakes up three days later in the hospital with the worst case of sunburn ever he will remember this 8mm socket he dropped last year. It will have cost him several thousand dollars (hospital stay, clothes, tow truck) and his significant other wil eventually leave him for the tow truck driver as they got to know each other on the long ride out.

All this for a socket. Murphy's law spares no one.

post of the year.

 

[Sells]

I lost a complete socket wrench in a Ford Ranger one time, and looking for about 5 minutes and said F-it, but that was a ford Ranger so who cares anyway.

 

[enzo]

Ok, so I was retighting O-clamps on the intake I installed last week, and my friends cheap ass socket and wrench (was using his cause I didnt have a 8mm socket) disconnected. The socket dropped and I have NO IDEA where it went.

So how does the intake sound? like it?

 

[TOPDECK]

Could be worse. I was installing an intake on my jetta in college and left a rag in the intake tube. I was cleaning out some little pieces of packing foam from the inside. I started the car and everything was fine, but after I got going down the street, the rag went up and lodged itself inside the throttle body which caused the engine to go full throttle but with limited air. I was scared out of my mind. LMAO

The socket will turn up. Like others said, it is probably on the skid. Bang it with a rubber mallet to confirm.

 

[Jtraskell]

Topdeck, go back to page 2, post 27. Problem solved! Be safe.

 

[nashman69g]

Could be worse. I was installing an intake on my jetta in college and left a rag in the intake tube. I was cleaning out some little pieces of packing foam from the inside. I started the car and everything was fine, but after I got going down the street, the rag went up and lodged itself inside the throttle body which caused the engine to go full throttle but with limited air. I was scared out of my mind. LMAO

The socket will turn up. Like others said, it is probably on the skid. Bang it with a rubber mallet to confirm.

HAHA...I left a rag in my intake piping to keep stuff from falling in...I started the car and did the same thing...:lmao::bash:

 

[||ReT4Ribution||]

So how does the intake sound? like it?

It has a nice deep growl under high rmp's, I like it. Low rpm's (typ. driving conditions for an automatic) you can barely even tell its there, Again I like. While driving, the 4runner some how just FEELS more beefy...

Other than the socket... I did run into one problem installing, the two screw holes in the stage 2 pipe for the MAF where not spaced correctly. When one screw was installed and centered, the eye hole on the MAF and the hole in the pipe for the second screw did not line up... after spending hours trying to get it to work and still have the MAF seated correctly, I just cut the eye hole open into a "C" and used a rubber washer that I cut to fit. Its not how I wanted to do my install but I was so close I just wanted to finish. After 200+ miles no codes haven been thrown, so far so good ( knock on wood ). It just baffels me how no matter what I do somthing always goes wrong.

CURSE YOU MURPHY! I wanna cut you with Occam's razor :flipoff:

Waiting on magnaflows cat back to be available, Im anticapating the combination of the two to sound like SEX! Yes I know "why cat back, you dont gain anything in the pipes". But honestly, what could go wrong with a bolt on exhaust??? :redbrick::ybrick:

Thanks again enzo for the intake and rack!