Has Anyone Seen My Sway Bar Link?

"lone_liberal" (token-liberal) 09/22/2019 at 18:57 • Filed to: None

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I was finishing up my suspension work. The driver side was all done, the passenger side was complete other than the sway bar link which was right here...it’s not there, it must be... no, not there either. I turned the garage upside down and could not find it. How the hell does that happen? So reluctantly I went in and ordered a replacement then dejectedly went out to clean up. The shop vac was having issues so I took the hose off and there was my sway bar link. Stuck in the damn shop vac. How the fuck? Is that even possible? Stupid question, it did happen. Anyway, the suspension is done and the car is on the ground and the order canceled . And I’m still shaking my head.

MM54 > lone_liberal 09/22/2019 at 19:51

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I don’t know how that happens but I’m impressed.

TheRealBicycleBuck > lone_liberal 09/22/2019 at 20:14

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I was in a hardware store trying to make sure the faucet kit I was about to buy matched the parts I brought with me. Of course, it was the last kit and I dropped an important piece. The piece bounced off the floor, hi t the underside of the bottom display shelf, and disappeared. The sales guy and I looked all over the floor and couldn’t find it. There was a toe-kick under the shelf, so there was no way it could have gone under the shelf, right?

Wrong. After we searched everywhere else, the sales guy started pulling the items off the bottom shelf so we could lift it up and look under there. We found the missing part and everything else that had bounced through the half-inch gap between the toe kick and shelf. It was surprising how much stuff was under there!

Urambo Tauro > lone_liberal 09/22/2019 at 23:15

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The shop vac picked it up? That thing must have some kick- ass suction!

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro 09/23/2019 at 00:35

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That's the really confusing thing, it's just a normal shop vac not some expensive commercial thing. I must have jammed that hose over it without realizing.