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Stuff you find in your truck.

A friend of mine works at a local Cadillac dealer. He siad a few years ago this couple kept bringing in thier Caddy with a rattling problem. It was in and out of the shop many, many times with no luck of finding the rattle. So finally the Service manager convinced the couple to leave the car for a fe days and he had one of the guys disassemble most of the area where the rattle was.
To his suprize, after taking almost everything off that area of the car, he came across a bolt with a tag attached to it.
The tag read " Bet it took you a long time to find this one!"

Man, I would have been pissed!!!!!

Mike
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I've heard one similar to that too. Check this out! About 2 years ago I had a flat fixed on my crew cab. About 2 weeks later I was driving down the the highway near Huntsville, and my rear tire just blew out. Of course I had no spare so after a hitched ride and 3 phone calls I was on a spare and on my way home. When I rolled the tire out of the bed and up to the garage my cousin and I heard something inside the tire. Thinking that it was a nail or bolt he reached in the tear in the side wall and pulled out a pair of needle nose pliers. Seems that the jerk-off at the tire store had been looking for them. Needless to say I got a new tire and quite a bit of free labor from them that day.-Russell
 
my dad had a 1980 C10 for about 2 years then wrecked it we were out parting it out whe we found about 1/2 pound of licoris (pardon Spelling),and about 5 LIVE!!! 12 gauge shotgun shells down inside the heating ducts....lucky for us they never went off!

Your right I dont understand the jeep thing!?
 
5 you are luckey I thank my blazer eats ammo I keep puting it in there and loseing it

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This wasn't in my truck, but in my car. Still makes you think. I have a 96 Caprice ex-squad car. When I pulled up the carpet to install new rubber floors, I discovered what appeared to be the remnants of the back window. By back window, I mean the one with the defroster!!!! Makes you wonder what people do in the back seat of a cop car!!


Dave Hiller
90 K-5
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I know this is off topic, but you said you had a 96 Caprice with the police package. I was just wonderign how you liked it. My roommate is currently passivly looking for one. He got saddled with a 94 Nissan Maxima which he hates. He needed something "newer" and more reliable than his 78 Lincoln Mark V, and to make a long story short he got sadled with the Maxima. Now my friend is a motor head and believe it or not by his last two cars, he is a Chevy head as well, but he needs something newer and in a 4 door. He was thinking police Caprice. At least until he gets the money together to build up a 70 Chevelle that he' been planning for the last 3 years.
Thanks in advance.


NJ SAR Guy

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Just brining something cool back up to the top!!

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<font color=purple>My friend bought an S-15 Jimmy and after the guy drove away we were looking it over and I found a 12" knife down in the door panel. This thing was huge ! The blade was all nasty looking and it had some stains on it that looked like dried blood ! We stood there kind of stunned at first then we started cracking up real bad. </font color=purple>

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When I replaced the front seats in my van I had to remove the seat pedestals. behind the computer on the drivers side were about 4 crusty .38 hollow tip bullets rolling around.

I also found a Jimi Hendrix 8 track tape when I removed the back seat from my '67 mustang.
 
I still find remants of a back window inside the rear end of my Jimmy. Somebody broke it out and then replaced it with a warped up one from a junkyard that wouldn't even close quite right (cheapskate). So it was my only option to replace it with a new tinted one.
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I have had stuff ride around on my frame rails and in the engine compartment for weeks before, all while I was driving around. I once had a big U-bolt washer riding on top of my front leaf spring for 2 days! I guess that's proof that my undercoating is sticky! I also pulled a 1/2" craftsman deep-well socket out from the A-arm of my car last month. I had been missing it for a year. I tell you what, you've got to be careful dropping tools and bolts in these newer cars. There just aren't many paths to the ground anymore. In a K-5, if you drop a wrench, you know it will be sitting on the garage floor when you go to pick it up (Clang, Clang, thud).
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<font color=purple>I too left a small crowbar in my engine bay for over a week after using it to tighten my alternator.</font color=purple>

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A few weeks ago, when I was having driveshaft problems, I remembered having seen some U-joints in my truck's glove compartment. I looked at one of 'em, but it seemed funny. So, I took it to my friend, who said it's the special U-joint to put a 1/2 ton driveshaft onto a 3/4 ton diff. So, now, I'm gonna go 3/4 ton just because I found it in my glovebox... along with a ton of malboro miles.. and some kinda massage parlor's card with a half naked chick on it! Ah, the wonders of owning a used vehicle.
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I dint find anything too cool in my K5 but I still have some stories. I had a plow put on mu Z71 when it was new. 2 years later I serviced the front diff, and found a snapon 3/4 socket from the plow install, in the front skidplate. It was just sitting there in the pocket, not wedged in or anything. On one of my broncos I cut the crappy rockers off, pulled out 15 pounds of mud and a rusty 7/8 craftsman boxend. Sears took it back and gave me a nice new shiny one. The same bronco was full of garbage when I bought it (came from hillbilly land) cleaned it out and found a armed bear trap. Came real close to putting my hand right in it. That would really have pissed me off!

Luke
84 K5
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Years ago I was working as a car mechanic. A guy brought a Lincoln Continental in for two problems. First, the drivers door power window didn't work, and the other problem was an occasional rattle in the same door. We figured the window had a part fall off that was making the noise but the guy said the rattle was there for years and the window broke recently. We opened up the door and found that the power window motor was burned out. The rattle turned out to be another brand new window motor that was dropped and left there on the assembly line.

'89 K5 Silverado 4" lift w/BFG 33's
 
When I bought my 75 Firebird, we ripped the interior out. We found a couple of bucks in change and the usual stuff. In the trunk we found a bill from a hospital with several medication names on it. My mom is a nurse, so we asked her what they were. Turns out that they give them to people who try to overdose in order to save their lives. I'm hoping I didn't buy "Christine" or something!

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When I got my first truck ('82 Toyota Shortbed), the seats were vinyl and cracked all to hell. When I was taking them out, I found all sorts of police ID and a cop station parking pass, sales receipts for the 3 owners after me, maps to cottages, really crusty change, and what I think used to be a zippo. Unfortunately, everything was rotten, and you could barely touch it without it coming apart in your hands.

-Al.
 
<font color=blue>When I swapped my motor last year, I found a stubby flathead screwdriver just sitting on top of the trans when I pulled the floor hump off. It was not wedged or anything but I think the 1 1/2" of grease/mud had something to do with it! The local Sheraton Hotel me and Billybob go 'wheelin behind used to be a F*rd assembly plant. One of my instructors at auto school told us that people used to bring new cars back to the dealership complaining of funny noises and weird smells a few days after buying them. The mechanics would pull the cars apart and find half-eaten sandwiches, soda cans, tools and all sorts of weird stuff like that behind panels and under the carpet. That plant was known for sloppy assembly. Typical F*rd!</font color=blue>

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6 months ago I brought my (new to me) 1991 Suburban home. I was playing around with the rear seats, just seeing how much room is in the back with the seats folded down. When I folded the rear seat bottom up, there laying on the carpet, was a condom (still in the wrapper!) (Thank god!). I told my wife someone must have been "gettin' after it" in the back seat..............

We both promised to keep the tradition going !!!! (LOL)
 
Many years ago a buddy of mine worked as a mechanic at a local Cadillac dealer. Some of his scumbag co-workers used to through thier empty styrofoam coffee cups and candy wrappers into the top engine compartment before the intake mainfold was replaced. He got so frustrated at the major sloppy craftsmanship and unethical behavior there that he quit. Believe it or not, this Caddy dealer is still in business.

The only thing left in my truck from the previous owner was the rust!!!!!

behemoth K5
 
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