I am "rebuilding" the 1600 engine out of our 74 Super Beetle after I found too much crankshaft endplay. Had to take the whole engine apart, have the crankshaft checked and polished (it was fine) and then have the case cut and line bored. I am in the process of putting it back together (my first time). I picked up the oil pressure check valve off the bench, and I saw a small object fall out of the cup, hit the garage floor and then bounce under the work bench (of course!). Well, now I need that little piece I'm sure I saw fall because it is one of the dowels that locate and hold the main bearings in place. Can I find that little mf'er anywhere? NO! It's a nice, smooth cement floor but it is not to be found. Everything is on hold now while I wait for some new dowels to arrive via mail because of that one that disappeared. Thanks for letting me vent.
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Frustration!
- Thread starter LeeFred
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MyFirstCar66
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I dropped a lock washer that also acts as a spacer of a certain thickness while working on a mowing deck spindle yesterday, trying to get some $hi+ done before the next thunderstorm... took a while but I found it and got it all back together. I made about 5 passes with the little tractor and the main drive belt came off! It was too hot to try to put it back on so I started another mower and did the whole lot with that instead. Finished just before dark.
I hate this time of year.
I hate this time of year.
Of course it will be in the last place I look. After I find it, why would I keep on looking? (Sorry, I couldn't resist - the smartass in me came out)
It was a smartass comment so I get it.
Too bad your in a city you could let it go to seed . Usually later in the year .
Best thing that's happened for my yard is the quad steer John Deere my son in law sold me after it rolled over when he was cutting a place in my yard i had told him not to fool with .
Don't bother me in the least it don't have a hood on it anymore . I told him the other day i hated he had sold it but was glad he sold it to me . For me the bad part of that deal is he don't come down & cut my grass now .
It won't be in the last place you look, because you won't be looking for it anymore after your new ones arrive. It will just appear 
After you replace a lost whatever & the old one turns up do you consider them as a set of whatever or a collection of ?
I've accepted the fact that I can't find $hit anymore, like the cheater bar yesterday that was on the open top of a toolbox in my shop. At eye level. And painted school bus yellow. Thankfully my son was over and found it. I used to blame my kids for my lost tools, but since they've all moved out, and I keep losing tools...
Heck i can look in the fridge for some Mayonaise & never see it sitting in there on the front of a shelf . I know exactley how you know .
I was trying to install the jiffy stand spring on my Shovelhead a couple years ago. It slipped out of the pliers and i never heard or saw it again! 
Springs are the worst. They get launched into the stratosphere and never seen again. Even if you hear them hit something, it's a lost cause trying to find it.I was trying to install the jiffy stand spring on my Shovelhead a couple years ago. It slipped out of the pliers and i never heard or saw it again!
^^^ Best reason to own a carb cap. If the air cleaner is off, the carb cap is on.
I cycle them into other tool kits. I "lost" a 15mm socket at work. Sure enough, the day after the Snap On guy left me another one the old one appeared where it had rolled off into the wrong toolbox drawer. Fine. Took the first one home to put the home toolbox. Expect there was already the exact same one in there, plus a Craftsman. So I rotated one into the portable tool kit that I carry when traveling, displacing a perfectly good "Taiwan" socket which then went into the "excess tools" box (little better than a bucket.) . That box is the one spot in my garage where grandsons are free to raid. Oddly enough, not one has ever taken more than like one or two to fill in a spot in their sets.
The Harley has a complete tool kit that stays with it that I can use to tear it all the way down to the bare frame if need be. The 67 has it's own modest array of basic SAE tools in it's own workbench so I don't have to walk across the shop to get basic tools for simple jobs. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.) My RV has a base set of tools that stay with it. When it actually travels I supplement those with the portable took kit and a bag of Milwaukee rechargeables. Set of minitools in my desk just for destroying...I mean fixing...laptops, Nintendo Switches, replacing tablet screens, etc.
Too many tools? Psshh. Nah.
I did'nt think a man could have too many tools ever .