Cat d6 wrench

ihcarl66 · Dec 24, 2018

Working on steering clutch weep hole and saw something metal shining in hole opened inspection cover out magnet inside and pulled out half inch gear wrench from previous owner always put tools away after working on equipt glad I caught it before it bounced into brake band

Michael Soldan · Dec 24, 2018

I worked as a mechanic for three years after retiring from teaching. We often had a wrench or socket fall down into an engine compartment and we would spend several minutes trying to find it , lights, magnet, up on the hoist to look around the frame and undercarriage , back down , shake vehicle , whatever it took to find that wrench or socket..and do you know that sometimes we never did find the missing tool ! (sometimes it was a 10mm socket !)

MSM · Dec 24, 2018

I've worked on heavy equipment for over 40 years and have found probably over 100+ tools mostly when I'd drop stump pans. Sockets are the most common,followed by wrenches,extensions, pry bars, a couple of snap on ratchets, pliers and adjustable wrenches. Best find was a full set of Mac deep well 1/2 drive impact sockets.Then there are always bolts,nuts,and washers, hose clamps,miscellaneous brackets, hold downs and an occasional fuel or oil filter the lube guy dropped.

Keith True · Dec 24, 2018

When I went to work at the JD dealer one of the first jobs I had was steering clutches in a 40 crawler.Before I had gotten started the shop boss,(who had worked on them new)said he had something to show me.He reached in the adjustment bung with a long extension and socket like he was going to adjust the throwout bearing.When he pulled the tool back out the socket caught on the edge of the hole,and popped right off the extension.He said that is why you will always tape the socket on when you reach in that hole.When I pulled the final drive I retrieved my socket,plus two others.

Grandpa's Fords · Dec 24, 2018

Gray shop rags and poor lighting in my uncles shop! In my late teens my first engine rebuild was a 360 in my Dodge Power Wagon. After assembly and eagerly dropping the engine back in I had notice and intake gasket was askew. Removed the intake to correct and found a dirty gray shop rag in the valley that I had put in to keep out dust from the shop while I was assembling.
I got lucky that time!

Crazy Horse · Dec 24, 2018

Did a valve job in my friend's shop .... a '74 Audi Fox that I owned (don't remind me of that). I had done all the disassembly and he did the valve job. I went to put the head back onto the block and he told me that he would do it so stand back. He took the head out of my hands and installed it. When he was finished I noticed that one of the masking tape tags I had tagged some wiring with was sandwiched between the head and the block. From looking at the old head gasket that we had, it looked like the tape tag would have covered one of the coolant passages between the block and the head. So, off came the head, the wire and tag removed out of the way and back together it went. We used the same new head gasket, worked good and never leaked. But I reminded him of that story many times over the years.

Steve@Advance · Dec 24, 2018

"FOD" The acronym for "foreign object damage".

It's a big deal, especially in aircraft work for obvious reasons...

coshoo · Dec 24, 2018

Local veterinarian/farmer went on a tour of Russia many years ago. They were in a tractor repair shop, and some guy was using a forge, so cinders were raining down all around. One of the Russians grabbed a cylinder head to reinstall on a tractor- the top of the block and the pistons had a pretty good amount of cinders, and he just put the old head gasket on and then the head, without wiping anything off. High quality operation.

Michael Soldan · Dec 24, 2018

Good story keith...and a good tip too !

dpendzic · Dec 24, 2018

I hear you! ON my 941B i retrieved two sets of keys for it--one set was there for about 3 years!

504 · Dec 24, 2018

That is why I have used locking extensions for years. If you have never seen any, you must twist a collar to take the socket off, and are held on the extension with an allen screw.

Elmo · Dec 24, 2018

I learned to hate the word. I remember going on for patrols when I was in the Air Force. Also got to see the damage that fod produced.
Elmo

jddrawbar · Dec 24, 2018

Not to mention how many tools Doctors leave inside their patients.

The Famous Grouse · Dec 24, 2018

(quoted from post at 09:56:44 12/24/18) Working on steering clutch weep hole and saw something metal shining in hole opened inspection cover out magnet inside and pulled out half inch gear wrench from previous owner always put tools away after working on equipt glad I caught it before it bounced into brake band

Did you happen to see my 10 MM socket in there? I'm missing 3 of them.

Grouse

fixt · Dec 24, 2018

In a previous life in nuclear power, we had just cone out of an outage and rolled the turbine up to 1800 rpm prior to synchronization. Received high vibration alarms on #4 main bearing, which is a pedestal assembly about 4 ft tall for a 30 inch main shaft.
Shut down reactor, coast down turbine, cool down oil system and all sorts of other stuff. It was a really big deal.

After much flailing about they finally pulled the bearing cap to find an 8 or 10 inch socket in there. It was the same size as the bearing cap nuts. This was after they had to run a full check and calibration of instrumentation finding nothing wrong. Tool control caught he77, bechtel caught he77, and procedures were revised. Cost the plant 3-4 million.

Moral of the story: Trust your instrumentation

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