Need help identifying part that fell off!

[ScottArizona]

Hey guys,

My dad and I were just wrapping up a caliper paint job on his car, (02 C2 Cab Tip) and were in the process of lowering it off the jacks, when we both noticed a small, hard rubber block fall from underneath the car near the front-driver's side wheel. The block is about 1 inch wide, 1 inch thick, and about 2.5 inches long, and has two half-inch half circle indentions at both ends that look like small pipes are suppossed to sit in them. It almost looks like one of those spring spacers they sell to make a truck sit a bit higher. It could also be a spacer that keeps two AC or other steel lines from clanking into one another. Any ideas? We can't seem to locate where it came from, although we have not yet taken off the front underpanels. Also, when we do so, anyone have any hints for removing the metal "band type" clips that hold the front panels to the chasis? Thanks, Scott.

Edited February 12, 2007 by ScottArizona

[clord]

HI Scott.... I'm working from memory here, but I think that it is a 'spacer'/'locator' thing that fits vertcally between two horizontal pipes in the top front of the left front wheel well. I'll check PET when I can get some more time.

[clord]

Scott.... It may well be a rubber "support" (separator/anti-rattle thing) that fits between the power steering lines in the forward part of the LF wheel well. If so, it may be part # 996 347 543 00. If that's it. it's absence isn't probably serious, but PAG put it there for some reason.