kaos_

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While tightening header bolts I dropped my ratchet in the bay and it landed on the headers (right where the 4 tubes meet up and connect) and it's sitting there, laughing at me because I can't get to it.

I was thinking of going to the store to buy one of those magnetic tools that will reach down in there and yank it out but am worried that the wrench will end up welding itself to the headers because of the heat and just get stuck there forever. And ever. Will that happen or will I be okay?

Ima get mines

iTrader: (3)

Get the magnetic extension tool, it works. I said the same $#@* when I dropped a socket down there, I got it out in 5 seconds with the magnet.

2000badbird

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you will be fine get a magnet worse thing that can happen is the ratchet could fall out while driving. it would have to be hella hot to melt the ratchet on the headers

staringback05

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deff. not seeing the wrench melt to a header....

VIP1

It won't melt, but I wouldn't drive it like that either. It could move and end up in a worse position which could either make it harder to remove or cause damage elsewhere.

2001NBMZ28

Just jack that side of the car and get it from underneath.

GMRL

Just push it off with a stick.

2000Hawk

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Thats not to bad i dropped a socket in my engine bay about this same time last year, i thought i had lost it forever. Well when i was doing my cam swap this past November i dropped a valve seal, as i went under the car to look for it i was sliding my hand on the k member and found my socket sitting in small area on the k member.
-Joel

02NHRAtransAm

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:rofl: get a magnet and you will be fine

NHRAMAN

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....." Tool away, and carry a long narrow stick. " ......

GMRL

I dont see the problem, if you dont have a telescoping magnet, just find a stick and push it off onto the ground. I drop **** down there all the time. Its kinda hard to see what your grabbing for and the magnet sticks to everything. Im gonna invent a telescoping elecromagnet.

flash12t

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must not have liked it. . my k member eats nuts and bolt to this day i still havent found them . . lol . . cant wait to swap k's ima be able to fill up my extra nuts and bolts draws agian after i dump all the parts that are hidden . .

qwkta98

use the magnetic tool there really handy

Pharm0r

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i broke into my car through the ttops with a stick i seem to have a problem locking my keys in my car.

also found a roll of electrical tape under my head light i lost like 3 months back =)

as for you, just figure it out. cant be that hard bro, get creative.

+1 magnetic thinggy

GMRL

Ive broken into my car several times using the antenna through the ttops.
+1 for having lost nuts and bolts on the k member. When I did the headers recently I found a couple nuts down there.

lastcall190

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That happened to me and my friend when we did headers on his LT1... PAIN IN THE *** to get out, it managed to wedge itself in there really good.

-J

Shock Hawk

Here's the dumbest idea ever, but it's thinking outside the box. Put your car on a rotisserie and turn it upside down. The ratchet will just fall out.

lastcall190

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"thinking outside the box" that's for sure...

Nautilus

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Please step back into the box... And get a magnet...

Fibbado

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I don't know why but this had me rolling, this is a funny thread.

Dropping a ratchet is nothing, it's the sockets and bolts that find their way onto a nice little perch on your K-member that really suck.