Sweet! Extra hardware

[TuggerNutz]

Found it while doing the front emblem change. I'm extremely amazed that it stayed there for 750 miles. I replaced the one installed with this stowaway. Wasn't a part of the birth of my truck, but maybe the rest of its life. Or until I drop it as well. No worries I got a spare now. ?

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[Dr. Zaius]

It stayed there because it was coated with Loctite ?

 

[Porpoise Hork]

Check the build date and see if it was a Monday or Friday. If it was a Monday, the assemblers were likely hung over from the weekend so they make mistakes. Friday well they're looking forward to the what it takes to get a hangover and are not paying attention. Build dates Tuesday-Thursday are better cause they have gotten over said hangovers and are able/willing to actually focus on something other than they left the bottle of Advil...

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Found it while doing the front emblem change. I'm extremely amazed that it stayed there for 750 miles. I replaced the one installed with this stowaway. Wasn't a part of the birth of my truck, but maybe the rest of its life. Or until I drop it as well. No worries I got a spare now. ?

Yikes, Mike!

I recognize that bolt! It is an explosive bolt for when the optional eject passenger seat is installed...Call Hazmat! Be very careful around that bolt!

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[TuggerNutz]

Check the build date and see if it was a Monday or Friday. If it was a Monday, the assemblers were likely hung over from the weekend so they make mistakes. Friday well they're looking forward to the what it takes to get a hangover and are not paying attention. Build dates Tuesday-Thursday are better cause they have gotten over said hangovers and are able/willing to actually focus on something other than they left the bottle of Advil...

Right before they closed down plant for 2 weeks. I'm sure they had other things on their minds at the time. Wondering how many more "Easter Eggs" I'll be finding.

 

[Tom_C]

My father always said to buy a car built on Wednesday (not sure how one would do that) because Mon-Tue people were hung over and thurs-Fri people were waiting for the weekend.

I don't think there is much science involve in that.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Right before they closed down plant for 2 weeks. I'm sure they had other things on their minds at the time. Wondering how many more "Easter Eggs" I'll be finding.

Wouldn’t it be something if you got lucky and found tie-down hardware?

 

[TuggerNutz]

Wouldn’t it be something if you got lucky and found tie-down hardware?

If that happens it'll be when I'm installing new ones.

 

[Delirious]

Found it while doing the front emblem change. I'm extremely amazed that it stayed there for 750 miles. I replaced the one installed with this stowaway. Wasn't a part of the birth of my truck, but maybe the rest of its life. Or until I drop it as well. No worries I got a spare now. ?

That ain't nothin! I have at least three or four extras every time I take something apart and put it back together. They're always putting extras in everything. No wonder they charge so much money for something now because they're giving away extra parts that you find when you take something apart.
Why just last week I tore my dryer apart to change the dryer belt and when I put it together I had four extra scews! So nice of GE to think of me knowing I might need a screw here or there when I'm doing stuff around the house, or because sometimes, well, I'm missing a few screws in my top shelf.
They call those virtual "Easter eggs." They now use that term for hidden goodies and video games. So you really didn't find anything extra, you found exactly what they wanted you to find!
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/easter-egg

 

[Tom_C]

Goes to what was posted in another thread about a glovebox hinge pin, and covers for seat mount bolts. Stuff gets dropped during assembly, and they just leave it.

That's the reason they removed the engine cover and other stuff... gotta recoup for lost hardware.

 

[Grumpaw]

You are all overlooking something....yes, it's a bolt, but, what does a bolt do ? It attaches something to something else. You need to determine just what that something is, and what it's supposed to be attached too !!!

 

[Tom_C]

You are all overlooking something....yes, it's a bolt, but, what does a bolt do ? It attaches something to something else. You need to determine just what that something is, and what it's supposed to be attached too !!!

I agree and disagree. We do not know it was suppose to attach something, or if it's extra. Wouldn't be the first time extra parts were left over after being dropped. As I said, and case in point, another thread talked about extra covers for under seat bolt covers that were obviously 'extra', likely being left after being dropped and not picked up.

 

[Blue Streak]

Speaking of extras. New a guy worked on GM assembly line. If they were mad at the foreman or having a bad day hand full of washers or nuts in spot that made them hard to retrieve after assembly. Rattle city. Irate customer.

 

[Radioman]

You are all overlooking something....yes, it's a bolt, but, what does a bolt do ? It attaches something to something else. You need to determine just what that something is, and what it's supposed to be attached too !!!

It just a joke. The bolt doesn't go to any thing in that area; they just left it there knowing hours would be spent trying to determine where the bolt is suppose to go. Sick humor.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Speaking of extras. New a guy worked on GM assembly line. If they were mad at the foreman or having a bad day hand full of washers or nuts in spot that made them hard to retrieve after assembly. Rattle city. Irate customer.

Hi Larry,

We faced this many times during the preproduction builds....nuts and bolts inside rocker panels etc. Mostly at Edison NJ assembly and this tainted me to any association with NJ. Installing the front grill Ford Oval upside down was a favorite, until the culprit was fired... Not much for real production vehicles as there was squeak and rattle testing and we could radar in on the line worker pretty quickly. They were soon headed to the unemployment line. Sad when the customer has to face this...

Best,
Phil

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