Extras found by Detailer

[frankk]

Start looking for holes where the detailer was working.

Full inside detail so can't easily narrow the area.

I spent quite a bit of time looking for holes. Found some that I'm curious about and some that clearly don't belong .

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[frankk]

the black one looks like the pin on the bottom of the hinge that holds
the dash piece under the steering wheel. it would be located to the right of the parking brake lever. start at the top right corner of the panel to pop it out.

mine popped out when i was installing the master on/off switch for my RSE rock sliders.

Thanks. I looked. It is very similar but mine is in place.

 

[frankk]

Operators go to the bronco with a faster in their hand or on the tool. They drop or bump the fastener which falls. The operators don’t have time to do a long search for dropped fasteners. They should notify a repairman/zip/supervisor etc that unit has a rattle concern. Doesn’t always happen.

The bolt with the blue thread locker looks like it was never installed, so probably just an extra dropped during assembly. The encapsulated thread locker will break open during assembly, allowing the thread locker to do its job. If it does not look like it was ever threaded into a nut I would not worry about it.

I'm hoping they're just extras. I haven't found anything that even matches so their matches must be buried somewhere out of reach.

 

[frankk]

Long bolt looks like restraint system impact sensor retainer. Torx head bolt with thread lock secures the seat backs to the bases at the recline position, and the black push pin retains carpet/mats in various places to the floorboard or under the console.

The seat is interesting. A number of seemingly similar bolts like HB1 and HB3 in the diagram. Will dig deeper.

 

[DefNotBuddyLee]

Did you have Katzkin seat covers installed by the dealer or 3rd party?

 

[frankk]

Did you have Katzkin seat covers installed by the dealer or 3rd party?

Standard MGV

 

[Doubleblkdiamond]

I work at a dealer and lots of times you find extra parts it's quicker to grab a new bolt or part if ya drop something going down the line

 

[Brutal-Force]

Those help prevent side-fumbling in the encabulator.

The one the left looks like pre-famulated amulite? The on on the right perhaps a differential girtlespring on the upend of the grammie. Not too sure about the center part.

 

[MadCityMan]

The long metal one looks like the bolt for the upper hinge on your door. They go in on the under side of the hinge. (the bottom hinge bolts are on the top side and shorter in length)
I'd check all four doors (or two doors if a 2 Dr model) to insure you have them all. You can use your Bronco tool kit to tighten them.

 

[greatlakes]

No 10mm sockets? I've been looking for mine.

 

[dgorsett]

Full inside detail so can't easily narrow the area.

I spent quite a bit of time looking for holes. Found some that I'm curious about and some that clearly don't belong .

These take those funky little push pins with the Phillips head, you can probably find something better at Autozone, 4 per side

 

[TakeTheBlack]

Black plastic one on upper right is a "trim fastener" used to fasten one plastic panel to another.

For example i just installed a "hush panel" under my glove box. This is a roughly rectangle piece of trim that hides the blower fan and other noise making parts. The factory didn't have hush panels that day -- so shipped without one.

I pushed the hush panel into place with two bottom guide slots and then used two of those black items to snap it into place.

Ford Trim Fastener

 

[BigMeatsBronco]

no them thar are tie rod re-attachemet bolts folks, without these your tie rods will be jelly. there for when u done snapped em.

 

[huey]

No jokes from me. That many looks concerning.

First question, have you done any modifications? If so, what? Were they DIY or a shop?

The one with blue Lok Tight, is concerning. You‘ want to get under the rig. Sort of looks like one with aftermarket fogs that I used for my Harness install.

I see a locking bolt in the second pic with Torx + (I think based on the middle), then the other looks like the battery clamp bolt for the negative terminal, but those are found in a few other places.

One is a black plastic push pin for like the wheel well cover or firewall under the hood if you’ve used a panel tool to take off to run wires.

The long bolt could be from anywhere since I can’t see the top, so thinking steps or something. Looks stainless steel, so rock rails aren’t likely, but I could be wrong about that.

You need to get under and inspect. Also, if you’ve gone off-road, good to crawl under everytime in the days after you return to see what’s shaken loose so you can retighten.

Those are my guesses and places I’d start checking.

you would be surprised how many fasteners are dropped while in assembly. Typically once it hits the floor the workers are not allowed to reuse the items and they are thrown out

the automation checks for the presence of the fastener, so I would not be to worried. Having said that it is always possible they were left out so you could go back to the dealer. Then its documented

 

[KRAKEN]

In my business those are considered FOD (Foriegn Object Debris) and are a BIG NO NO. Very concerning. Throw them in the glovebox... never know when you might find where they were supposed to be installed.

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