Don't you hate it...[Update]

"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2) 07/07/2020 at 15:12 • Filed to: wrenching, Wrenching fail

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When you get distracted and misplace the wheel bearing and grease seal you were about to replace?

Wheel: with fixed tire, but now lacking bearing and seal ...

I’ve looked everywhere I’ve been in the last 20 minutes and I still can’t find the fucker...

I FOUND IT!

Underneath my hat, which I had taken off and set down because I was sweating profusely and it was getting saturated. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 15:20

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It’s always something, I got a magnet at work and I stick bolts to it since I usually drop one through the engine bay and can’t figure out where it went. They always somehow end up thirty feet away behind something. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 15:26

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Let’s hope you didn’t set them in the tire. Pick it up and give it a shake just in case.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/07/2020 at 15:36

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Already did that with a short tire iron yesterday... Luckily I hadn’t set the bead yet when I realized it was missing... 

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 07/07/2020 at 15:38

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It’s like there are bolt g nomes AND  sock gnomes..

TheRealBicycleBuck > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 15:47

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My first thought: I’m glad he’s not a surgeon!

Good luck on your hunt!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/07/2020 at 15:49

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I’m way too self aware to be a surgeon. That job requires a bit of a god-complex. If you’re constantly worried you’re gonna fuck up you’ll freeze and/or get nearly instantly burnt out... Engines and tires and much lower stakes, and I get riled up enough about them. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 15:50

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Now it’s time to pull a rabbit out of your hat. :)

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 15:57

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I hate when that happens, and it turns out right in front of you is always the last place you look for things.

Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 16:12

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MOST of my time spent wrenching is actually spent looking for the thing I just had in my hand.

Thats when you know its Modelo time, or half-past Modelo time. 

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 07/07/2020 at 16:13

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Stuff us ALWAYS in the last place you look for it. 

HoustonRunner > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 16:14

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I give up and ask my wife. She proceeds to find whatever it is in 5 seconds.

I just have to decide in advance how much I want to hear “really?” after she finds it.

wafflesnfalafel > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 16:18

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ha - I lost two bushings when I was swapping the door opening direction (from hinge on the right to hinge on the left,) on our new fridge a few years ago. I have no idea where they went... never found them.

MM54 > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 16:31

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It would be pretty silly to keep looking for it after you found it, afterall

ranwhenparked > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 16:31

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I do stuff like that all the time, also sometimes forget why I walked into a room or call co-workers I’ve know for years by the wrong name. But, if you want a detailed description of a hotel room I stayed in 30  years ago, or a recap of a great breakfast I had in 1999, I’ve got that down.

ttyymmnn > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 17:58

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I don’t do a whole lot of work with tools, but when I do, I invariably carry a tool off to another room and leave it ther e absentmindedly , then can’t find it when I need. All. The. Time.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 07/07/2020 at 18:30

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I had all my tools on the back of the ute yesterday whilst working on said back of ute ...and I still lost two of them.