Help me find this bolt a home!

Well shit, keep it up you may end up with another truck with all the extra nuts/bolts...parts/& pieces...

 

Make it a eternal glove box rider,,because as soon as it hits the trash,,.

 

Yup, you'll be dumpster diving for it....

 

I just drove by 12Mk6gti's house and dropped two more bolts on the driveway. Can't wait to see where this ends.

 

Did you ever look around a garage, under the bench, maybe in small containers; and see assorted fasteners, bolts, nuts, clamps, hangers?

Now you have a start on your own, collection of mysterious items.

If all seems fine, you are in good shape.

 

Now THAT is some funny shit !!.......

 

It's normal, every time I work on mine I have spare bolts, I just think of it as weight reduction because...... Race truck

 

Next weekend I'm going to tear into the truck and find where that bolt goes!

 

That size bolt is used all over the engine bay of these trucks. I can't remember everything that had to be taken loose to do the timing belt. But I would check the dip stick bracket, ac comp brackets, alt. brackets, radiator brackets, double check the timing belt cover and fan shroud. It could also be something as simple as one of the brackets that holds the wiring harness in a certain location.

 

I'm leaning towards the a/c or alternator brackets first, before I open up the timing belt cover and have a look around!

 

I found where the bolt was supposed to go! Right under the thermostat and near the crank position sensor.... I guess during the removal process of the thermostat I figured that bolt was supposed to come out to allow the thermostat to be removed.... Super happy I found where it goes! I noticed the lonely hole while I was down under the truck doing the oil change and just happened to look up.

 

(dumps popcorn bag out). whew!

 

Can I get someone to verify that there are supposed to be 2 bolts in the same location as in my photo? Thanks

 

Thank you for the great post and picture. I had the exact same problem and exact same bolt. when doing a timing belt and WP for a friend and her Tacoma, I carefully removed every bolt and then bagged and labeled them. When I installed the water pump, I had one "extra" water pump bolt. I counted the number of holes on the old pump and the new pump three times. I knew I would not have mislabeled it. Eventually I went on and finished the timing belt replacement and tune-up. The truck starts fine, runs fine, doesn't leak. But now I will go look at that spot tonight.

 

Did your have a chance to look at your truck this evening and see if your bolt goes where mine went?

 

Theres a little bracket next to the timing belt crank pulley that has a 10mm bolt

 

I can't see the 10mm bolt in your image...

...and I write that 'cause i also have a 10mm bolt left over from my water pump change last year. I't be nice to know where it goes...

 

The gold round bracket pointed towards the timing pulley theres a bolt thats bottom right hand side its only half visible in the pic sorry its a google pic that i found