Holiday junkyard deals

What did you get?  Our best deal was an intercooler and all its plumbing from an International Bus. Grand total $22.49.

I am still in my boxers and haven’t been to a junkyard in over a year, but i did order some closeout hoosiers this morning from the bathtub while i was trying to boil a migraine away

I have a sick wife this weekend or else I'd have been at PickNPull half price event. I really need an Acura Integra rear disc brake setup.

    A you-pull-it yard about an hour away had a $50.00 all you can carry or $200.00 a wheelbarrow full or $220.00 a yard cart full sale. It was epic! The things i saw. Oh my! My own intent was to score a new 8.8 explorer axle to fix a re-leaking axle seal on the current explorer. I figured for $50.00 i could walk out carrying a solve that might net a disc brake rear end. Well, that didn't happen. After searching high and low, they didn't have an axle with the right gear ratio. what they did have were plenty of front and rear diff's that did match. After taking out the heavy half of a TTB ford front end. I came to the realization that i wasn't going to be able to carry both a half a front end and a whole rear end. So i bought the wheelbarrow.   Long story short, I spent $200.00 to fix a leaking axle seal, by way of, at least double the labor and another $100.00 or so in; gear oil and u-joints and brake pads and fluid....etc. But i now have disc brakes in the rear and 3.73 lsd (when my parts show up).

    The epic part is what everybody else was doing. I saw this one walk out with an entire gmt400 front clip over his shoulders for $50.00. Another was a dirt track team piling a yard cart with 2 twin cam saturn motors, a transmission, and radiators and the trans still had the uprights and wheels attached. the yard cart folded in half with the weight , a single member of the team pulled the whole she-bang thru the gates as the tires of the cart rolled of the rims. epic! Yet another was the guys who gathered all the honda ecu's and valve covers. each piled upturned hoods  with ecu's and valve cover and walk thru the gates for $50.00.

   all in all it was a good trip to the junkyard. Did i mention the rain?

I picked up a dual-core radiator and fuel tank skid plate for my F150--turns out the first is cracked and the second doesn't fit. But I also helped one friend get an S14 rear subrame, and another friend get a Maxima 5-speed transmission.

bustedplug said:

    A you-pull-it yard about an hour away had a $50.00 all you can carry or $200.00 a wheelbarrow full or $220.00 a yard cart full sale. It was epic! The things i saw. Oh my! My own intent was to score a new 8.8 explorer axle to fix a re-leaking axle seal on the current explorer. I figured for $50.00 i could walk out carrying a solve that might net a disc brake rear end. Well, that didn't happen. After searching high and low, they didn't have an axle with the right gear ratio. what they did have were plenty of front and rear diff's that did match. After taking out the heavy half of a TTB ford front end. I came to the realization that i wasn't going to be able to carry both a half a front end and a whole rear end. So i bought the wheelbarrow.   Long story short, I spent $200.00 to fix a leaking axle seal, by way of, at least double the labor and another $100.00 or so in; gear oil and u-joints and brake pads and fluid....etc. But i now have disc brakes in the rear and 3.73 lsd (when my parts show up).

    The epic part is what everybody else was doing. I saw this one walk out with an entire gmt400 front clip over his shoulders for $50.00. Another was a dirt track team piling a yard cart with 2 twin cam saturn motors, a transmission, and radiators and the trans still had the uprights and wheels attached. the yard cart folded in half with the weight , a single member of the team pulled the whole she-bang thru the gates as the tires of the cart rolled of the rims. epic! Yet another was the guys who gathered all the honda ecu's and valve covers. each piled upturned hoods  with ecu's and valve cover and walk thru the gates for $50.00.

   all in all it was a good trip to the junkyard. Did i mention the rain?

I'm 6'4" and 250 pounds. I used to be one of those guys. I did it for years. Make a spectacle of myself by carrying stupid loads while older guys shook their heads in disbelief. Iron V8 engine blocks, auto trannys, entire differentials, you name it. If I could get two hands on it I would get it off the ground and carry it. Now I'm an old guy and just getting out of my comfy chair to walk to the bathroom is painful. I should have listened to those old guys back then.

Woohoo, the yard I was at yesterday extended their 50% off sale through the end of June. 

I walked out of my local yard with rear disk setup for 2nd gen neons, a neon trans and front and rear motors all for $50 

Professor_Brap said:

I walked out of my local yard with rear disk setup for 2nd gen neons, a neon trans and front and rear motors all for $50 

 

Front and rear window motors, or did Neons get way more awesome when I wasn't looking?

Im thinking motors = auto-incorrect of rotors.

I have been going to multiple salvage yards for years and have never run across any " special deals" like so many others have..................I mean the $50 for all you cane carry type stuff etc.  Still, there are some excellent deals there all the time anyway so I  am not too disappointed. 

Stampie: keep your eyes open for a mint 95-96 gm truck dash please. Ill happily pay......

In reply to Feedyurhed :

The two yards here do it like once a year. Unless you sign up for their text you just have to get lucky and show that weekend.

In reply to Dusterbd13 :

I'll look but with school letting out this week my junkyard time is actually going down since he can't get in.  I don't know which one of us is looking forward to him getting in more.

Mary wants to go junkyarding too. 16 for the yards here.

Will said:

Professor_Brap said:

I walked out of my local yard with rear disk setup for 2nd gen neons, a neon trans and front and rear motors all for $50 

 

Front and rear window motors, or did Neons get way more awesome when I wasn't looking?

whops. Front and rear window motor. rear are crank.