Sorry UT but that is just ridiculous. Look at the facts:
1. The tool is hidden from the consumer.
2. The tool is not used for anything user-serviceable nearby on the vehicle.
3. The tool provides no functionality at all to the consumer in such a configuration.
From an engineering standpoint, Ford would not do anything like that because of the reasons I mentioned above. It makes no sense at all. Adding a "hidden wrench" to every Ford truck out there would add considerable cost. If Ford tried to save money by using flimsy inner fender skirts and a cardboard headliner, do you think they're going to spring for a "hidden wrench" made out of metal and added to every vehicle?
Sorry man but it's a coincidence. Spots in the sheetmetal like that are easy to get tools caught in. None of the '79s I have worked on, including mine had anything like that. 9 times out of 10, with anything mechanical - if it doesn't make sense, it's probably not true.
Hey man...I didn't say it was logical, I didn't even say it was intentionally put there, I just said that after finding 3, and my father who just walked outside to check a parts truck for the same thing, had the exact same wrench, totaling 4. So after finding 4 of the exact same size wrench in the exact same spot sitting the exact same way just seemed way too much of a super coincidence, so I had to ask. I mean seriously, what on earth would somebody need a 7/8"/3/4" open end wrench for in the tail light, and they were easy enough to grab, if it was dropped. And all 4 that I have found have been from different model trucks and in different assembly plants. So it may be ridiculous, but do you have a better solution. Hell I'll even see if it has some sorta part number on them and see if maybe Bill can decipher it.
Some long gone assembly workers are in Ford Heaven laughing at us dicussing the wrenches the hide to drive someone nuts!! I had a friend that bought a new Cadillac and he took it for a rattling noise. After the third are forth trip to the dealer they found a rocker arm ball in the bottom of the drivers door with a tag on it that said "Finally found it Huh?" Good Luck!!
Fords for several years came with a "tool" even they knew nothing about.
The striker plates used on cars (1960/64) and trucks (1961/66) did double duty as bottle cap removers.
My grandfather showed me that one before he passed, I was only 4, but I was the best bottle opener he ever had, that's what he said. He was a Ford mechanic for 37 years, busted up by a stint courtesy of WWII.
There may be a number on the wrench along with KRW, which stood for K.R. Wilson, Fords longtime supplier of tools.
Personally I'd rather be discussing wenches, we won't learn anything new about them, but when did we ever?
btw: The owner of the Ford dealership I worked at in 1969 (Ralph Williams Ford) drove a new Lincoln Continental Mark III.
Everytime he turned right or left, a clunk came from the left quarter panel below the window.
When the quarter trim panel was removed, a Coke bottle was found below the window regulator, prolly stuck in there by a disgruntled assembly line worker.
__________________ Bill / Retired Ford Parts Manager ~ 1962/1997
Part Number Research: Trucks: 1928/2002 / Cars: 1928/2003
1963 Galaxie 500XL / 1965 F100 / 2008 Fusion S / 2008 Edge SEL
There may be a number on the wrench along with KRW, which stood for K.R. Wilson, Fords longtime supplier of tools.
Personally I'd rather be discussing wenches, we won't learn anything new about them, but when did we ever?
Alright I'll look for the identifying marks...as far as wenches go, this is a pretty clean site, don't think the mods would like it too much...but I have other sites for the wenches.
There may be a number on the wrench along with KRW, which stood for K.R. Wilson, Fords longtime supplier of tools.
Personally I'd rather be discussing wenches, we won't learn anything new about them, but when did we ever?
btw: The owner of the Ford dealership I worked at in 1969 (Ralph Williams Ford) drove a new Lincoln Continental Mark III.
Everytime he turned right or left, a clunk came from the left quarter panel below the window.
When the quarter trim panel was removed, a Coke bottle was found below the window regulator, prolly stuck in there by a disgruntled assembly line worker.
My mom had a Cadillac in the 70's with a rattle under the driver's seat. An exploratory mission back at the dealership netted an empty whisky bottle placed inside the seat! I guess when you get hammered on the assembly line you have to hide the evidence somewhere!
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1979 F250 Custom 4x4
351M
Four-Speed
"Lizzy" aka "The Jolly Green"
My mom had a Cadillac in the 70's with a rattle under the driver's seat. An exploratory mission back at the dealership netted an empty whisky bottle placed inside the seat! I guess when you get hammered on the assembly line you have to hide the evidence somewhere!
That's prolly the same *&^%^ that assembled the engine in my new 1979 T-Bird...the car overheated from day one.
It was soon discovered that the thermostat was in backwards.
I guess the *&*@&* didn't get the word..Ford's ad slogan back then was Quality is Job 1.
__________________ Bill / Retired Ford Parts Manager ~ 1962/1997
Part Number Research: Trucks: 1928/2002 / Cars: 1928/2003
1963 Galaxie 500XL / 1965 F100 / 2008 Fusion S / 2008 Edge SEL
Hmm, never found any tools in the tail light area of the trucks I have dealt with.
Buy a lottery ticket Ben!
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74 F-250 Ranger XLT 4x4 highboy, 429ci,
C6 auto w. shiftkit-married setup shifted by B&M.
Lpg powered, fired by duraspark and gm hei upgrade.
320 litre box mounted tank.
130 amp 3g alternator upgrade.
PMGR starter upgrade.
3" body lift.
35" Yokohama muds.
Dana 44HD/Dana 60 powrloc 4:10 gears. 79 Dana 60 front soon to be.
Now this is all just too weird for me! Of course now I will have to take the camper off the back of Burt and tear into the tail lights! I already replaced the lenses, but have not taken the fixtures out.......YET! I'll let ya know, though it may be a while. I look forward to the pictures of the wenches ......... I mean wrenches in the meantime!
Dak
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