Stupid Junkyard!!!

[rboyer]

I think you're probably gunna get strung up for that comment judging from some of the previous posts

I don't feel too bad doing the same sometimes because when I have to wade through mud, pull a part on my own with minimal tools because they won't let you drive into the yard, and then get charged 5x what the part is actually worth really burns my ass. To make matters worse when you bitch about the price they just laugh and you realize that they just got that part pulled out for free. Asshats

That's the one thing I have noticed, there is only a certain perfect time of the year to go to the junkyard and that's when the weather is around mid 60's and it's nice and dry outside. In the winter it's too cold and muddy and in the summer it's too hot. There is one junkyard that pulls that pricing crap on me, actually it's mostly one person that does it because she has no life. This past summer I bought a set of amp wires and later found out that she charged me for an engine wiring harness. She is also notorious for counting every single little part you have even if several small parts make one big part. As for getting strung up for that comment, if you only knew how many Ranger parts i've seen run through these places then you'd know what I mean. Hell just last week I acquired a total of nine M5OD transmissions just from one of them.

 

[Mark_88]

Just about everything I've learned about my Ranger,in terms of replacing parts, came from a junkyard...and I often suggest that to new members here to go to the jy and practice...often times you break things in the process of removing them, but I've actually only broken a few things over the years...and I usually try to conserve parts for other seekers...

Like on my Zuki...it took me about five trips to find a plastic center console cover piece to replace a part that was broken when I bought the truck...it was the only real imperfection on the vehicle and came about probably when a previous owner tried to install a stereo system...I figured it would be an easy fix but the main problem was the part itself was extremely fragile due to the way it was molded...and there were slight variations of the part due to options and model changes...

I once spent almost two hours carefully removing a heater switch so as not to break anything for others, only to get the part home and find that the connector was slightly different on the blower motor...but I eventually figured out that all they did was add a short pigtail to swap the wires...

I think it's one of the best things a person can do and, personally, I think trips to the junkyard should be a mandatory part of any drivers Ed couse so people appreciate both the workings of their vehicles and to see up front the carnage that poor driving can cause...

 

[rboyer]

There is actually one very important thing I learned a while back. If you are ever going to change a fuel pump on a passenger car and want the easy way out then a junkyard is the place. You just go to the junkyard and hack a huge hole where you "think" the fuel pump is located and then take your measurements and try for a clean cut on another vehicle to see if you damage anything. I did a fuel pump swap on the side of the highway in a Saturn SL1 in about 15 minutes by using that method. A junkyard can also be used as a place to experiment with parts interchange that the auto manufacturers either don't know about or don't want you to know. I actually think that alot of info in the tech library was actually submitted because of junkyard experiments.

 

[metalmacguyver]

I actually think that alot of info in the tech library was actually submitted because of junkyard experiments.

Darn right!

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

They are even stupider than I first thought!

Today one of the parts I had to pull was a locking hub from a 96 Explorer.

I damn near got fired today because all three idiots in the office were arguing against me. According to them all Explorers have locking hubs. I even gave them the exact years and t-case model numbers and suspension types and explainations on how they all worked. We argued for about 30min, they told me maybe I wasn't right for my job, which I'm not. I'm way too over qualified, they are lucky someone like me lost their license and can't work a real job! So anyway, I took the head office guy out into the yard. And told him, since I don't know what a locking hub looks like if he could show it to me and I'd gladly take it off. He stood there with his hands on his hips looking at this Explorer for about 5min in complete shock. Then he turns to me and says, just take the whole knuckle, then walks away. WTF!?

 

[Mechanickid]

HAHA! typical inbred idiots... I'm sorry but there are alot of people like that down my way. It pisses me off. Like telling people I went mudding in my explorer. They give you this stupit look then you have to prove it to them.