After a long day of getting new shifter cables in, and getting the new master cylinder/clutch line bled.
I lost a wrench.
After about driving a mile.. I found the wrench.
Oh, yeah I just had that tire patched up for a small leak about 20 mins earlier.
good figure.
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LOL I dont know what to say about that.............
just one question..... How?!
how in the world do you get a wrench lodged in your tire at that angle?
I've been working in autoshops for 3 years including goodyear and firestone. In all that time have never seen anything close to this. Thats a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance. You should play the lottery.
The Outlaw
98 Pontiac Sunfire (Christine)
2200 5spd
Red with Black racing stripes.
Don't let the punks get to you. If they can't say anything helpful its because they probably
have VERY LITTLE IF ANY MECHANICAL SKILLS . Talking crap is just their way of hiding that
fact. They figure the more crap they say the less likley anyone will know how dumb they are.
yeah here's whats strange to me.
I used the wrench to tighten the clutch bleeder valve(which is on the LEFT side).
It dropped and disappeared somewhere.
Drove bout' a mile down my street, made a right hand turn, and heard a pop and hissing sound, my wife said there was something metal in the side of the tire.
So I stopped, got out walked over to her side of the car, and low and behold. the missing wrench.. impaled on the RIGHT side, on the outside of the tire.
WTF
And I kid you know, I just had it plugged for a small hole about 15 mins earlier(came home from the tire place, put it on and drove off).
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heres another pic.
My only guess is that it fell out durring the turn, bounced off of the curb and got between the tire and curb and forced itself in.
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I used to work at NTB and a lady came in with a flat tire and I found a key in it. The funny thing is that she said she had lost her house key the other day lol.
3400 SWAP DONE. 187WHP 212TQ (14.2 @100MPH NA) 240WHP 310TQ (N2O)
I think the best one I've had was a road reflector completely inside the tire.
I've seen nails, leaking welds in police rims, railroad spikes, and bent wheels with enough room to fit your fist in the gap between the lip and tire. At Goodyear we had the Washington State Patrol, Enerprise Rental Cars, and BNSF Railroad contracts. So I've seen some pretty trashed tires but never a wrench in the sidewall LOL. Thats a first.
The Outlaw
98 Pontiac Sunfire (Christine)
2200 5spd
Red with Black racing stripes.
Don't let the punks get to you. If they can't say anything helpful its because they probably
have VERY LITTLE IF ANY MECHANICAL SKILLS . Talking crap is just their way of hiding that
fact. They figure the more crap they say the less likley anyone will know how dumb they are.
my guess/wild idea is that you sat it on the cowl under the hood when you probably topped off the clutch reservoir. then at one right turn or another it slide over and fell down inside the fender. then on the last right turn it started to come out of the fender and as you straightened the wheel it penetrated the tire. sorry just being creative.
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That's a serious one in a millon shot.
I've seen a cresent wrench through the center of the tire and it got lodged in the inside of the wheel.
"I would've slashed my tire but all I had was a wrench"
thats crazy... only thing even close to that would be when i found a set of side cutters lodged in the tread of a tire... she was complaining of a ticking noise... lol... or when i took a tire off and found a spoon in it... wasnt complaining about a leak either... was in for some new tires... now someone explain that.. lol
All I can think and this would be crazy. Did it come through the back and thats where it stuck on its way out?
blacknred99 wrote:All I can think and this would be crazy. Did it come through the back and thats where it stuck on its way out?
Thats the angle it was at.
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WOW that is all.
The proper way of using the word seen. It is not I seen it that would be I saw it. He has seen the car is the right way to use the word. English class is Cool. By the way thats my sig
Darkstars wrote:I think the best one I've had was a road reflector completely inside the tire.
or the center section of a wheel that is still left lol.
Are you sure the wrench didn't enter the tire somewhere else and exit there? I don't see how the box end of the wrench would have punctured it. It looks like it was exiting that way. Especially if you look at the rubber, since it pushed out with the wrench. If the wrench went in there, the rubber would have been pulled in, not pushed out.
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