i was taking off a vac. hose from my throttle body when i noticed this


it looks like the coolant temp sensor without a harness on it. i don't seem to have a loose harness anywhere. what is it?

 

Looks like a coolant temp sensor just laying there..

Grab a pair of needle nose pliers and fish it out of there.

 

wow what a jackass. it was dark outside? i was hungry? i wonder how long its been there. im suprised its taken me this long to notice.

 

You would be surprised how many tools I've acquired from working on other peoples cars..wrenches,ratchets,sockets,c-clamp,hell i even found a hammer laying on top of a ford exploder transmission when i was swapping out the blown engine..

 

Been there, gained a few tools, done that...I am working on an old Porsche this weekend...who knows what I'll find!

 

So YOU'RE the other end of that black hole my tools keep falling into!

 

I appreciate the hammer!

 

man, i wish i had taken a picture when it happened... two weeks after putting in my rebuilt tranny i popped the hood to check the oil and discovered i had been driving around with 2 beer bottles and one beer can stuck in various "cup holders" under the hood. it was dark when my friends and i were putting everything back together. the can had actually been spinning on the a/c belt and the can was almost worn through!

 

Hell I was workin on the max yesterday and I found one of my craftsman screw drivers poked through the wiper harness grommet....wonder how that got there

 

related but different note...
anyone ever leave their power steering cap sitting on top of the strut tower when they closed the hood?
..........my hood now has a nipple and my PS fluid doesn't have a dipstick. :doh:

 

lmfao, i took my cluster out to replace the tachometer a week or so ago and found a unopened condom, the plastic was all white/silver..could not make out brand it was sitting there ..i'm still wondering how it reached there...maybe the guy i bought the car from before opened the cluster and forgot it...

 

Good stuff. I opened up the oil cap to add a half a quart of oil, then closed the hood with the oil cap down against the valve cover. I drove the damn thing close to 400 miles like that too.

 

that;s something you'd find very hard to do on a subie EA82 motor. it will barely run if the oil cap is off.

 

Just to add: Appearently a shop had done some work on my mother-in-law's van and subsequently it started overheating. After taking another look at it, they told my M-I-L that it was a leaking gasket somewhere around the throttle body (a $600 quote was given). She asked me to take a look at it and, as you may have guessed, when they did the original work they failed to retighten one of the radiator hoses. In my efforts, I found a coolant system pressure tester sitting on the intake. I considered it payment in full for retightening the clamp.

 

LOL...Good stuff! A buddy of mine found a hammer in his engine bay after visiting the shop...Not a very good shop, anyway.

 

I found a breaker bar in my moms grand am after they did some strut work to it. yay for sleep mechanics. its about time they do something worth while instead of mess up the car.

-B

 

Finding a hammer in the engine bay after taking it to a shop is NEVER a good thing.

 

It's even funnier because it was a Dodge K-car (Aries, I believe)!

 

well then using a hammer on it is SOP.

 

wtf is SOP, I'm checkin on urbandictionary and so far I got...


knock it off john.

 

I'll add some more:

I found a huge tire iron in a max I bought; it was inside the car not the engine bay. I also found $20 behind the back seat in my current Max.

 

id say that the condom behind the instrument cluster takes the prize. everybody knows working on cars is dirty...

 

slight different but my mom got a new Mustang recently and immdiately hit a buzzard and broke the windshield. I was there when the guy pulled the broken one out. There was an antenna in the cowl where the windshield seals. I guess someone at the factory set it there and then the windshield got sealed on top.

 

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