Pick and Pull Putz(s)

[Tedybear]

Okay Kiddies.

Last week I go to the local U Pull yard. I find a 89' Bronco ii 4wd in pretty sad shape body wise. Looks intact otherwise. So I attempted to remove the outer heater box for my own use, and planned on grabbing a few other do-dads at the same time on my next visit several days later.

So I get there yesterday. Very Very disappointed in how "Well" some arsehats pull parts. Dash board looked like it was hit with several bricks. The seats where in great shape!.... But someone pulled the windshield and the seats where covered in startup mold and crud. I go to get the 'chime' box out from under the dash. I noted the steering col. pretty much hacked to bits, I guess someone needed the turn signal switch and brought along bolt cutters for all the wires.

So I go under the dash to look for the chime box. Found the controller for the intermid. wipers, and what I hope is the chime box.. But while under the dash? Looked like someone went crazy with the bolt cutters and the wiring harness. Anything with more then 4 wires to it? Cut. Even if the part was still in the truck? They sliced the wires.

Looked over the doors. Actually in fair shape---until someone needed a part from the door's window area. Pulled and tore up badly.

Pretty much every part I was going to part out and use? Ripped to snot.


Oddly enough it reminded me of the Explorer I pulled the springs off from. I noted that about 4 out of 5 RWD cars and trucks? Some arse pulled the diff cover off and either left it in the dirt, or took it with them. Now something that you can pickup at a parts store pretty cheap? Do it! The majority of rear ends in the yard? Now totally junk due to being left without a cover in a windy and dirt filled yard.

Now I know why the yard said "No cutters or saws". The idiots did a large amount of damage just with bolt cutters and prybars. Plenty of good parts---needed parts--- destroyed due to someone's stupidity.

There endith my rant...

S-

 

[straycat]

That's why none of my friends or I go to crap scrap yards. I we really need to buy a good clean used part we can buy something from the owner selling parts himself and also somebody we know who ownes the parts.

 

[Tedybear]

It's not the yard itself. It's the morons that take what would be good parts--and start hacking them apart. And they really don't need to! Unplug a connector, would it kill you? I know bolt cutters are quicker, but give me a break!

S-

 

[Twister]

Where you from, kinda sounds like the yards near me lol. Luckily it seems people don't pull many parts from the ford scetion at the yards near mr.

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[Tedybear]

Where you from, kinda sounds like the yards near me lol. Luckily it seems people don't pull many parts from the ford scetion at the yards near mr.

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We have a U Pull U Save yard and a Pick'n Pull in the Syracuse, NY area.

This yard has a huge turnover of cars and trucks. They bring them in....the cars sit maybe 2 weeks or so... And what's left? Gets put in the crusher for scrap metal. He's got about 30+ cars sitting in the front lot that haven't been touched yet.

I just wish people would be more considerate. Maybe I'm asking to much?

S-

 

[wildbill23c]

I hate finding vehicles in picknpull yards that people have destroyed everything just for one part. I actually found a really nice early 80's Bronco 2 in one yard last year that was in perfect body condition guessing the engine blew or transmission failed or someone just plain didn't want it anymore the interior was in perfect condition as well, I looked at it before I got my B2 thinking gee I wish I had the money to buy the whole vehicle. Well a week later I had to go back to that yard for more parts for a kid's car. That poor B2 was still there, someone had actually knocked it off its blocks it was sitting on flipped it over and proceded to cut half the floor out of it, and had beat the crap out of every body panel on it in the process. I mentioned to the cashier about it, and told them they need to watch these idiots that was a pretty nice straight body vehicle that someone destroyed just for a floor pan. People go to these yards and its all about them, nevermind the next guy that needed the part you just beat the hell out of for a couple of bolts.

 

[90longbed]

yeah I have seen the same at the yards here..... break stuff for no reason... a friend of mine watched somebody destroy a perfectly good dash pad for an 80s chevy truck... he had saw it and was gonna grab it on the way back... he cussed the guy out too.... good dash pads for those trucks are hard to find in good shape..... also saw someone break the the taillights on an old rambler wagon for no reason....when I go after parts I take stuff apart and set the parts aside for someone else to grab.... pisses me off when people break the part you need just to save the time of taking off a few screws

 

[Mark_88]

It's probably my fault...I used to recommend to newbys to go to a local yard and practice on the vehicle before taking your own apart...looks like the worst of the worst took my advice and now it's an epidemic...maybe they spawned idiot children and have given them my advice...oh, how tragic...

Anyway...I've seen the same thing here in Canada...and I've been good to JY vehicles myself...trying not to break parts that may be needed by others some day...only to find the JY crushed the vehicle I so lovingly left as intact as possible...

GRRRRRRRRRR...ah, well...c'est la vie

 

[GentleRF]

Mark, I know what you mean about leaving near pristine vehicle and coming back a week later to find it had been crushed. And just when I had the funds to get the whole BW1350 set up.

Rick in East Bremerton

 

[Mark_88]

Farkin' EH! Lost count of how many times I came back for something to find my target had been trashed. A few years ago it didn't matter much...but now it really matters because there are so few in the yards.

Perhaps I could get a government grant to protect the endangered Rangers...hmmmm...sorta has a nice ring to it...lol

 

[Tedybear]

Farkin' EH! Lost count of how many times I came back for something to find my target had been trashed. A few years ago it didn't matter much...but now it really matters because there are so few in the yards.

Perhaps I could get a government grant to protect the endangered Rangers...hmmmm...sorta has a nice ring to it...lol

Find something endangered with 4 legs and park it inside the ranger with a litter box. The enviro nuts will swarm around it and nobody will do anything to it ever!

S-

 

[James86]

How about this for an irritation.... people who see something they want but can't buy, so they remove it and hide it on a completely different car until they come back. At U-Pull-R-Parts in MN, you find pristine tailights for a ranger in the trunk of a Grand Prix or something. People squirreling things away just so others CAN'T buy it irritates the piss out of me. If it's that important, or you know you need it, buy it - don't hide it thinking "Gee, thats nice, I'll stash it for later." It just screws over someone else who might need that part.

 

[4.0B2]

yep. been there. done that.

I hate my local pull a part but its the cheapest option for me on a lot of things. I did manage to find a pristine hood and fender for the explorer after my telephone line accident. See explorer thread in sig.

 

[Jraymer360]

How about this for an irritation.... people who see something they want but can't buy, so they remove it and hide it on a completely different car until they come back. At U-Pull-R-Parts in MN, you find pristine tailights for a ranger in the trunk of a Grand Prix or something. People squirreling things away just so others CAN'T buy it irritates the piss out of me. If it's that important, or you know you need it, buy it - don't hide it thinking "Gee, thats nice, I'll stash it for later." It just screws over someone else who might need that part.

i did that for my front diff on my 93. just to make sure it was the right code, i'm not taking apart a whole ttb again. but i put it in an explorer, the same one it came off of.

 

[97RangerXLT]

The ones that really piss me off for the pull a part here in Indy is the yard operators themselves... they pick up the car with the forklift and ram the backstop of the forklift into the side of the car. usually breaks the mirror and put s a couple nice dents in the side of an otherwise perfect car... had a hell of a time finding a driver side mirror for my 94 olds 88 a few years ago... all of them were broke hanging by the power cables on a dented door where the flowering twat that drove the forklift rammed the car...

AJ