A visit from Mr. Murphy.

My father-in-law (RIP) heard a loud ticking noise after reassembling a large diesel engine fuel injector rebuild project. After two days of head scratching diagnostic work, he dis-assembled his work to find a nut had fallen into a cylinder and was bouncing up and down with the piston!
 
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Rebuilt right front caliper and replaced hose today. Went to torque inverted flare nut/hose connection and of course the crows foot adapter departed torque wrench and disappeared. After searching a few minutes I saw a hole a little bigger than a quarter in the top of the lower suspension arm. Inspection mirror and flashlight and there it is inside the suspension arm. That hole isn't an eighth of an inch bigger than that wrench and it dropped straight down and into that hole. What are the odds of that happening?
Forgot to mention the flare nut adapter also had a half to quarter adapter in it so that made it even more unlikely that it would drop through that hole.
 
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