When it comes to cars eating sockets, I always find and retrieve mine. GP's are a challenge until you learn. I could tell you guys how to get them back with minimal scratches and bleeding. It's a question of....how badly you want your tools back?
Drove mine with "LOW" on the DIC to work this morning. Ehhhh fuel pump loves me, 213K miles of use and abuse. :th_winking: One day..it's going to get a piggy back ride from me doing this crap.
Saturday I started one and moved it outside, cleaned the garage then swapped Steves transmission with him. Went really well. The whole time he was saying, it doesn't seem that hard... that's because it's really not hard. Remove a few bolts, swap a big part for another, put bolts back in, done.
Sunday got a call from my friends that they stopped at the package store (beer) and the car wouldn't start. They were on their way (2 hour drive) to swap the harmonic balancer and visit. Max, Mark and I pushed it to my house and into the garage. Tossed a spark tester on it, no spark. We then watched Rachael pull the balancer to find one bolt holding the interupter rings was beated and out of it's hole stuck in the rings which.... destroyed the crank sensor. Literally.. they couldn't have been luckier that they made it to the store. The store BTW is at the end of my road, 4 houses down. Once she replaced those parts, it started right up.
Next weekend, project white Regal.