Whats Your Style of Junkyard Part Picking??
 

Ok, So whats your style of part picking at your "local u-pull", "pick your part ect"??? Especially when your looking for, and taking out turbo's.
Do you....

1. " Walk around the yard, find something nice, pull out ur shiny tools and spend a few minutes carefully pulling the part out in a organized and tidy form (in and out of the yard in less than an hour)"

2. "Walk around the yard, find something nice, pull out ur tools, and start pulling the turbo, only to find that its bolts are kinda seized, start cursing a bit, but eventually manage to pull it out 2 hours later..."

3. "Walk around the yard, find something ------- sweet, rip out ur tools, start hacking at anything in your way, then find out that in order to get the turbo, you must pull the head of first. You immediatly say "----" but continue on and 4 hours later, you come out of the yard with your knuckles scrapped up and bloody, and you covered in oil, mud, and ----, but with your trophy"

4. " Walk around the yard, find something ------- auwsome, rip out ur tools, which include a 10 pound sledge, portable sawzall, angle grinder, and RAGE. You look at the car, the turbo is all the way wedged behind the engine beside the firewall in some unbelievable spot that no one could ever reach. You have a buddy with you, and his car's stereo just got jacked the previous day, and you found out your girlfriend cheated on you the previous day also. You two are two young men filled with a primordial anger and rage that could snap with the tinyest misshap, you would and could destroy anything at a momements notice. You start by ripping out anything and every hose, cable, engine part that connects to the turbo. Your buddy scrapes his arm a stray peice of metal, and starts cursing so load, the junkyard attendant goes out into the yard to see whats going on. You continue on, and find out the head needs to be pulled. You start breaking free the head studs, and when your on the last one, the bolts head snaps off...theres no way your going to get the head off. You instictivly start screeming, and pull out the 10 pound sledge and start bashing the head of the engine....broken valve train parts are flying in the air off the ying yang. Your and your buddy converse and now think you have to pull the whole engine out. You two proceed to find a engine hoist that the yard supplys, its all the way across the yard. When you two get back, you find some mother fucker working on the engine of the car that YOU were working on. You tell him that you got their first. He doesn't believe you, but then he notices the RAGE in both of your eyes, and also the 10 pound sledge in your hand... he backs off. You and your buddy procees to take the engine out. You find out the engine mount bolts are seized to hell...more cursing and bashing. You then find out that the axels are seized to hell. More cursing and bashing. You two then pull out the sawzall chop the ----------ing engine mounts off, and use the 10 pound sledge to bash the axels out. You then proceed to pull out the engine, in the process you drop the engine and nearly miss crushing your arm and your buddies leg. Now that the engine, is on the ground in front of you, looking smashed beyond belief, you proceed to take the turbo off, the bolts are seized. Moments later the yard owner calls out over the speakers that the yard will be closing in 5 mins. You and your buddy have been in the yard for 7 hours and are covered in oil, mud, ----, and have so many cuts and bruses that it lookes like you were in a steet brawl. Both of you lose it for a few minutes, and start bashing the ---- out of the car, cars around you, and the engine you pulled out. You calm down and try one last time to pull of the seized bolts on the turbo.....THEY COME OFF!!! and the turbo plops to the ground with a satisfing thud. You and your buddy look at each other, and start yelling "HA TAKE THAT MOTHER FUCKER", and bash the car some more. The car originally only had some minor rear-end damage, but now looks like it had been in 150mph roll over that collided with a semi. You and your buddy leave the yard with a $39.99 turbo. In the following weeks you have a HMT turbo setup, and can make the ladies bra's fly off anytime that sexy turbo spools up"


;D ;D ;D

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Oooo, i'm #2,3,and 4. Its a blue moon when i get the #1!! :-X :-\

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i like to snipe, i thrrow ---- over the fence and come back for it at night
so ill take turbos radiators and all orts of high price ---- and buy a set of used plug wires off a saab and then collect the booty later

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LOL. I NEVER CAME ACCROSS ANYTHING LIKE THAT "#4" BUT I DEFFINITLY THINK I WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TO DO THAT. I WOULD CURSE, KICK, PUCH, SHOUT, THROW, RIP, AND MUCH MORE.

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hey hotrex, we got something in common!!! i found a starion intercooler and a audi front mount ic and threw them over the wall!! ended up getting about $180 for both which all i had to do is come back at night and pick up the merchandise!!! ;D ;D easy part time job... ::) i think i'll go back this weekend!

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my tool list:
-socket set
-combination wrench set
-2"x36" galvanized pipe
-5lb sledge (fits in tool bag)
-16oz hammer
-chissle set
-big ------ knife

I use #4 but need no motivation to beat the ---- out of the car. I also never take long to get parts pulled, turbos take about an hour for DSMs and probes.

-Dustin

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lol, thats a really good idea! Too bad theres only one "pick your part" place were i live. There is pretty much NEVER a intercooler there. I'v went around to like 10 junkyards were i live (calgary, canada) and when i ask for an intercooler, there like "huh? oh no i haven't seen one of those in a long time". There was only like one place that had a pontiac firefly intercooler, awk :( and the guy wanted 200 bucks for it....oh my god :P You ppl in the US have it so good :)

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Definatly a number and 3 and 4, i hardly ever get a 2 and a number 1 you've got to be shitting me is that possible? It tooke me a ------ half to get an engine bay wiring harness. I forgot to bring a philip screw driver so that positive wire that goes to the fuse box i just couldn't get the screw to turn whatever i did. I finally notice a thick metal fence pipe about 3' 1/2" long and swang at that ----------in fuse box. Turned out great should've seen that ----------er fly and chunks exploding everywhere. What a great but stressful time!

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watch out with the coming back at night guys...yards by me are cracking down...some friends of mine got chased out doing 140 with the lights off...only to get charged the next day because they somehow got his plates

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I usually just wander aimlessly until I can't walk anymore and pass out in the hot sun on top of a rusted out ford, then I have a dream that I found everything I ever needed in 10 minutes and got some random hot chick to do all the parts pulling and then carries me back to the junkyard entrance... I'm usually woken up by a sharp pain from where the vultures have started to eat my legs...

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I've always thought about just ganking a bunch of stuff from my local u-pull-it but could never justify the risk for a few random parts, (plus if I actually found a good turbo or intercooler, they go for like $30, all fixed rates). So I always just throw my stuff in the wheel barrow and pull it up to the counter, and they never charge me for half the stuff anyway. The last 2 times I went there I made out pretty well.

$78 for:
4th gen fender -perfect
4th gen headlight
injector resistor box
5th gen fuel rail w/regulator
5th gen injectors w/ wire harness
mx6 injector clips
miscellanious hardware and stuff.

$38 for:
2 spares (for drifting, both new)
6 injector resistor boxes
mx6 window switch
4th gen tilt steering column (supposed to be $28 alone)

The prices I paid included tax. The guy on the last one just put - misc. electrical - $8 for all the injector resistor boxes and the window switch!

When we go I just pick a really busted up car in the back of the lot and bust it up further. My personal signature is throwing axles through windshields. 8)

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Im like a combo of 1 and 4

I usually pre scan the yard w/o tools, that way I can walk in later w/o them noticing a nice tool box/tool set.
I sit down and plan out how to remove stuff.

But my tools always include a small hack saw (for hoses) and a large 27oz hammer with a small prybar. I really calmly hack through everything. Id take my portable sawsall but I dont want the yard to know I have the $$ for a sawsall...(Ive found the better you look in the yard the more $$ you pay)

But for some reason all the yards here in the Seattle area are like total ripoffs. They want like 30-40% of what the part was brand new...

I was quoted once 400$ for seats out of a 91 prelude! I asked for 150$ and he laughed at me, and I laughed at him back and left...

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Yeah, i can't believe that crap some of these yards give you. I got qoated $125 for a rusted up std manifold that was cracked. I was like, "Buddy, the peice of ---- is cracked and YOU still want 125!?. He then said for 175 i'll give you one that isn't cracked. I just told him this place is a joke, and left.

Actually some places are down right dangerous! I went to a smaller yard, and i asked the guy if i could look around. The guy really didn't give a ---- and let me through the gates. I'm there all by myself and theres like no one else in the yard. I'm like, "ok i'll just take my time and wonder around. After going pretty far in i notice 2 ------- giant german shepards roaming around. I'm like," Holy ----!! Now i was kinda scared because this yard wasn't a u-pull it style yard, and probly the owners normally just walked around...and i was like a stranger to the dogs. Those dogs could have ripped my balls off 5 times over if they wanted to. Naturally, I was out of the yard in less then a min. :-\ :P

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Its the yards that have multiple cars stacked up ontop of each other that scare me, a local pick n pull does this, scary as hell. Theres a really nice on, j and b's, HUGE, but empty, looked for obd1 injector clips in the J&B's, non, went next door to a small one, snagged two sets, anyone need one, lol.

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I'm #3. I usually only look for thunderbird turbo's since the fixed price here (So. Ca.) is $80 for a turbo. :o It's fucken rediculous but if you can find a good one, it's ok. I like throwing alternators through the window, though. ;D

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im usually a 1 or 2, i have found my self in a couple 3's when i see a #4 i keep looking for other ----...

the last time i pulled a turbo (SAAB) it almost turned out to be a 3, was starting to look bad!
last time i pulled a MX6/626 turbo was like a 1, but i thought i was going to have to fight two old russian guys for it, turns out they only wanted the tranny so it was all good...

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---- i wouldnt do #4 unless there was a new in the box 61-1 hidin back there, i have had nothing but bad experiences with junkyard turbos, and with prices going up i would rather save the time and get a new one.

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omg #4 seems like exactly what happened to me....except i didnt have to take the motor out and i didnt have a big ass sludge hammer :P

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sometimes i resort to number 6 which is have then flip the car over with there payloader so i can ravage the undercarriage

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hah, that was a great story... maybe I missed it.. but what kinda turbo was it? Chrysler K car kicking your ass? those turbos are a pain, I've took a few off and got a bit too dirty, I go for the easy ones. I flat rate ---- at the junkyard just like I do at work ;)

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The first turbo i took out was a 86 626, pretty easy. Second was a big bitch, 87 shadow, and the third one i couldn't get out (85 daytona) which resulted in the cars windows being bashed out. ;)

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Some places let me use their plasma torches.. I just cut the k car engine mounts allow the engine to fall to the ground, push the engine over and wallla expose that worthless turbo..

-CF

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Damn, that's pretty crafty. The junkyard here has like 15 cars and as you could imagine, none of them are turbo. They suck ass. They are picky about what they sell and what they take. If you call looking for a part that's a bitch to get(tranny, crank, head), they keep you on hold until you hang up. That pisses me off so bad. They won't even let you pull your own parts. >:(
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Doc you have to move somewhere that is humanly habitable!

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Do you think it would be safe to unbolt the engine mounts in the front on a k car to make the engine tilt forward for better access to the turbo? I was thinking of doing this but kinda worried that i might get my hand crushed :-[ :-[

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live on the edge.. I dont think Ive ever taken a saftey precaution in my life... Ive also broken things.. its judgement call.

-cf

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$39.99 for a turbo??? Damn.. i go to junkyards around here all the fucken time and some of the people know me by name... and the fucken cheapest i have seen them want for a turbo was $200! Yeah, that wasn't gonna work, so i tried to gank one off of a turbo coupe... and then a probe... but that ---- wasn't working... too much fucken work/time and too many guys roaming around... It was a bitch too, beacuse its cold as ---- here allready. I did a #4 on a civic though. I fucken found an std manifold, but the bitch was in a civic that hit something like a brick wall because the front end was in the engine and ----... i hacked almost the whole front end off and eventually relized it even wasn't one! I got pissed and all the ---- i hacked off was back in the car through the fucken windows. Damn, that just pissed me off thinking about it!

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Alright, live on the edge!lol ;D

Saltypistachio- Did you ever try the u-pull's they have there in the US? You guys got so many of them (so lucky!!), i'm sure theres one around detroit?? Up here in canada most of our u-pulls are called "pick your part". But as far as i'm sure all the u-pulls work on a price chart thats universal for any car part. So i'm guessing you shouldn't spend anymore that 80 bux max, 40 is ur lucky.

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try number 5

#5 Have your coworker wake your ass up on your day off way to damn early. Between your lack of conciseness and his heavy accent take 20 minutes to find out that he wants to go to a junk yard that's about 2 hours away, now. Because your coworker looks like he is from a part of the world that likes to blow us up you feel that letting him go into the heart of redneck country alone would be a bad thing. Pull your self out of bed and put cloths on. Take cloths off when you realize that your queer ass has to go to redneck country too. Dig out cloths you use to work on your car, Carhart work pants, beer tee shirt, Redwings, and to top it off a shity Packers hat. Stop by swanky little coffee shop you frequent every morning on your way to coworker's house. Spend five minutes explaining why you look like, well, a redneck. Spend next five minutes reassuring coffee house owner that she won't need to call the police if you don't check in by five. Tell her that you will be safe because they will be aiming at your coworker first giving you critical seconds to get out of the way. Get to coworker's house, spend next hour being told what parts you will be trying to find for his 49 Chevy Truck. Explain to him what parts you would like for your 63 Corvair Spyder. Get in SUV borrowed from boss. Spend next 2 hours listening to shitty top-40 radio because boss was to cheap to spring for CD player. Stop twice to ask for directions. Get to junk yard. Spend 2 hours pawing though rusted crap only to realize that all the spare parts you have are far superior to what you are finding. Find one part that it would be nice to have spare of, have redneck owner quote you a price that's 1/3 more than you would pay out of a catalog for new old sock part. Sit on your ass for next hour and half. Spend next hour watching redneck junk yard owner try to rip off coworker who has actually found parts that he needs. Smile as coworker ass rapes redneck with his fine tuned Moroccan street market bargaining skills. As the redneck and your coworker go to pull parts you pull out cell phone and call boyfriend. When your done making plans for tonight you hang up and see a set of aluminum Rims on a rusted out 240Z that would look mighty fine on your Corvair. Find coworker, tell him to keep the redneck busy for a while. Get jack and lug wrench out of wrecked Omni proceed to pull tires off the Z. Throw them in SUV and rejoin coworker and redneck who are now exchanging racial slurs. Help coworker load his parts into SUV, the redneck wanting nothing more to do with us goes into office and slams door. Two more hours of shitty top-40 and you arrive home to find your boyfriend waiting for you to see what your haul was. After stashing rims in work space you go up stairs to have fanatic butt sex.

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I'm not sure how to respond to that. Are you male or female? I'm confused, but not as much as you are I think? ???
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What the ----!But sex...dude you better be a freeky chick or else your a blatent homo!eather way that story bites!

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Respond with the forth thing that pops in your head (the first three are allways drafts). I am very very male, so much am I male that I have decided to seek the company of other men because females do not get my maleness. ;D If you are confused it is because you too must want to seek the company that only naked men together can enjoy. ;)

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No sir. I like chicks. To each his own. I was just unsure of what I read. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Ill just walk away........

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HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A "BLANTENT HOMO". I much rather being called faggot. Your right, I cant't tell storys for ----.

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I'll join you. It's probably best this way. :-\
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sorry, some times I go over the top before i come to my senses. :-[

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Oh my god, way to ---- up a thread Type40. I don't have a problem with homosexuals, they can do whatever the hell they want with their lives. But i do have a problem with fags that go out telling the whole ------- world how they had freaky butt sex at work. You don't have to tell the whole world about your sex life. Its ok to tell people that your a homosexual, but no more than that. Talk about cars (thats what this forum is for), and maby at the most mention that you have a boyfriend if you have to, But NO more than that. See thats the biggest problem i have with homosexuals, there are two types of them. First theres the ones that admit they are gay, but say no more, and talk in a normal and decent manner (i'm ok with that), just like any other person. Then theres the other ones that have to relate everything to their gay sexual fantisies and let everyone know what they do in the bedroom. That is why you get discriminated against and bashed on, so shut the ---- up and keep it to yourself....

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Gay is just a bad excuse for not being able to get any women 8)

STAY IN YOUR CLOSET

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what...the...----.