Always inventory your tools...
Tourer
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 404
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From: Portland, Oregon
You miss the wrench or the Sportster?
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,442
Likes: 418
From: South Carolina
Not a tool, but left a pair of Oakleys on the back of my Street Glide, they found a comfortable place to hang out, they rode for 50+ mikes, I found them there the next morning.
Took an old car in for an oil change once, 4, 500 miles later was changing the oil at home & found a filter wrench under the hood.
Did the front brakes on my Honda Pilot, wife kept saying she heard a rattle. I didn't hear it. She insisted. I told her she was nuts. Next oil change I found the wire coat hangar I'd used to hold the caliper still hanging on the spring.
Happens to all of us, I think.
Took an old car in for an oil change once, 4, 500 miles later was changing the oil at home & found a filter wrench under the hood.
Did the front brakes on my Honda Pilot, wife kept saying she heard a rattle. I didn't hear it. She insisted. I told her she was nuts. Next oil change I found the wire coat hangar I'd used to hold the caliper still hanging on the spring.
Happens to all of us, I think.
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 5,105
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From: Blaine, WA
Pulled off the outer faring to install a hidden antenna, SG signals and I was missing a Snap On allen socket later on............found it wedged between the triple clamp and outer fairing about 3 weeks later.
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 3,414
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From: Southern NY, known as Florida
Years ago I had a tailgate repainted at a body shop. Dropped off the tail gate and picked it up a week later.
The tail gate had a bedliner panel on it, after installing the tail gate on the truck, I noticed a lump in the panel. Removed it and found a 1/2 Snap on wrench. I brought it to the body shop and the guy was ecstatic.
I have lost tools before, mainly small sockets, found all but one over time
The tail gate had a bedliner panel on it, after installing the tail gate on the truck, I noticed a lump in the panel. Removed it and found a 1/2 Snap on wrench. I brought it to the body shop and the guy was ecstatic.
I have lost tools before, mainly small sockets, found all but one over time
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Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 87
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From: Northern Ireland
After fixing a puncture,many years ago,one of my tyre levers was missing.
Thinking maybe one of the kids out on the street had lifted it I wrote it off,only to notice a strange lump in my tyre a few weeks later...you can guess the rest.
Thinking maybe one of the kids out on the street had lifted it I wrote it off,only to notice a strange lump in my tyre a few weeks later...you can guess the rest.
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Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 63
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From: PA
I've found more than I've lost
Have a few Snap-on combo wrenches and a prybar that have been left under the hood. Followed a guy in a work truck in a rural area and the door of his cap came open. A 5 gallon tool bucket fell out. I was beeping trying to get his attention before it fell, stopped and cleaned it up and tried to catch the guy, but he was gone. Flashlight, a couple ratcheting combo wrenches, small sledge and some other things. Lost a cordless phone that I put on the bumper of my truck years ago, but can't remember losing any tools. I was physically upset when my youngest daughter told me her boyfriend went into my tool box for a screwdriver to replace a few parts on his Yamaha. That was a first for me, but everything was back in it's place. 
Have a few Snap-on combo wrenches and a prybar that have been left under the hood. Followed a guy in a work truck in a rural area and the door of his cap came open. A 5 gallon tool bucket fell out. I was beeping trying to get his attention before it fell, stopped and cleaned it up and tried to catch the guy, but he was gone. Flashlight, a couple ratcheting combo wrenches, small sledge and some other things. Lost a cordless phone that I put on the bumper of my truck years ago, but can't remember losing any tools. I was physically upset when my youngest daughter told me her boyfriend went into my tool box for a screwdriver to replace a few parts on his Yamaha. That was a first for me, but everything was back in it's place.
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Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Northern WV
This is what I do too, I have a little low two shelf table on wheels that I park beside the bike I'm working on.
Where I worked there was a gas station just down the alley behind us that their mechanics drove up in cars they had worked on. I was always finding small tools and most are Snap-On... sockets, ratchets, and open end/box wrenches.