[T3] this didn't just happen (help, please)

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

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	I'll cut to the chase -- I was installing the AT filler tube 
upper bolt, up on the top rear of the AT.  Using a rachet with a deep 
socket.  Socket comes free from the wrench as I'm fumbling around... 
I'm ready for it to fall and hit me in the face, or at least have it 
go rolling across the drive... but I just hear a solid "thunk" up 
above my head.

	Ok, so it landed on something and didn't hit the ground.

	I've spent about an hour pretending to be that deep 10mm 
socket, groping every likely (and unlikely) place it could have come 
to rest.  Checked my shirt, jacket, pockets, the ground all around, 
in case it actually made it farther down and I just didn't catch it.

	Now, I found that there's a hole at the top left of the 
tranny in the bell housing area where it meets the engine.  I can fit 
my finger down into that hole, kind of rearward.  I believe that the 
socket fell down in by all the... torque converter(?) (you know, 
where the clutch *isn't*, so to speak).

	I disconnected the coil wire and turned the engine over a 
bunch in the hopes (or fear) of hearing it rattling around.  Nope.

	Any advice?  It's one of those weird moments where I could 
just ignore the issue and go to the store and get another 10mm 
socket, and never solve the mystery... or risk destroying my 
crankcase and/or tranny bits when I get half way down the street. 
Would it just come to rest and bumble around in the bottom of that 
space?  Or is it going to wedge itself when the engine's at speed and 
really rip things to shreds?

	:(

-Greg

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