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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Eastern Iowa
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Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Somewhere I have placed my hinge pins and bushings. I have two pins that are on the bench, because I had to shorten them. The other 2 pins and bushings are missing. I have over three hours invested in the hunt. Its not all a waste of time I had a beer with me all the time
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BlahBlahBlah
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I misplaced one of the air conditioning brackets on my ex burb. Its weird because I was able to account for all the other brackets and bolts.
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Not in the last 30 minutes. ha.
On a similar note my Dad's German Sheppard had a habit of stealing screwdrivers and hammers all the time.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Hand Crafted C-10
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Whittier Ca
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I will now its lost when I start looking for it
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I do it all the time. Tonight I stumbled across the idler arm support bracket that I misplaced a couple of years ago. At least I haven't lost anything expensive... Yet.
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Waxahachie, Texas
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Yes! I ordered a Camaro dash to get the tach. When it came, I pulled the tach and the light bulbs and neatly put them in another box. I put the leftover cluster in the box it came in. About 3 weeks later, went looking for the tach and guess what? I think I threw away the box with the tach and kept the junk cluster box. Sometimes I think it is less trouble to simply put $100 bills in the bed of the truck and drive off down the highway..................
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Every day. And more parts come up "missing" these days than they did ten years ago.
In fact, I now have three sets of defrost vents, six front turn signal lenses, four (or is it five?) door handles (I hope I have two good ones), two extra power steering hoses, and an extra ashtray that I owe back to ECE. I know that no one over 55 will ask me why I have ordered stuff I already have.
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Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
All the damn time, usually find it a day or 2 after I buy another....
Jeff
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Spokane WA/Viola TN
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I love it when I find parts I 'lost' and forgot about.
'Heck yea, I know exactly what I can do with this!)
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Lose them all the time...especially after I organize. I always know where it is until I clean up.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Eastern Iowa
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Wow if I could only get this kind of response on my build thread! I laughed at most of the responses. I am glad I am not alone. Goats86 I think we may have something in common, they might have been thrown away. We had a super bowl party in the garage. Wife helped clean before the party. I was grittin the whole time.
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
i dont think we would be gearheads, if we didant put something somewhere so we wouldent loose it..... and did.. i figured whatever it was, decided to hide on me...
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
i missplace everything. i have misc tools and parts scattered around the yard. i need to clean up since im already having people coming in my yard and stealing my stuff. metal prices go up and items go missing.
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But Found Her 25yrs Later!
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
This should be a poll asking how many times you misplace parts.
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
i remember one time i had a part right next to me (forgot the part or what i was installing) and i went to grab for the part and noticed it wasnt there i was PISSED! so after 5 hours i realized that it was in my hood, i had the part with me the hole time!
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yes, i do
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Spokane, wa
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
what happens to me is i "misplace" something, and then if i don't find where it was hiding i give up. then i go look for something else that i "misplaced" and end up finding what i originally misplaced. i've lost lighters that i was holding the entire time or was in my pocket, and one time i "misplaced" a mountain dew. i searched high and low for the thing, probably didn't help that i had about 3 cases worth of cans scattered around the house, and the one dew i looked at probably 30 times and told myself was empty. when i was cleaning up all the cans, giving them a little jiggle to make sure they're empty, i found the one that i "misplaced" and looked at 30 times
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
yes...not just parts though but sockets, bolts, wrenches... Sometimes I just need to clean up. I also have ordered parts twice...
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Misplaced a spark plug in the middle of replacing them.. oops..
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Ha ha, funny you mentioned this. I've been looking for one of my mirrors in the garage for months now, can't find the damn thing anywhere. So right now I don't have either mounted.
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Location: Eastern Iowa
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
Well I decided to go ahead and assume they are lost forever. I ordered 2 more sets. I figure i'll resell them if the others are ever found.
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Matt Garage build http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=6784 My slow but sure truck build http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=394924 ![]() My philosophy on tires is the same as cigarettes. "smoke them if you got them" HAPPILY DIVORCED! |
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the boat guy
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: springfield mo
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I've looked for stuff I was holding in my hand for 20 minutes... And putting something somplace where I know I won't lose it ia about as useful as throwing it in my back yard. They say this gets worse with age, I can't even imagine!
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Join Date: May 2006
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Re: Ever misplaced a part for your truck?
I misplaced EVERY Bolt to my truck.. luckily I found them ... in a different building then the truck... It had me sweating :^)
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