In this episode of Saturday Mechanic, Ben Wojdyla and Russell Ferguson head to a salvage yard for an introduction on how an auto recycling facility works and to crush some junk cars. Join us…
In this episode of Saturday Mechanic, Ben Wojdyla and Russell Ferguson head to a salvage yard for an introduction on how an auto recycling facility works and to crush some junk cars. Join us…
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But what if i need a gas tank? All these get punctured. ):
All junkyards are “you need to be 16 to get in”, yet I’m 14 and own a car
(not driving it ofc) and I need parts. :/
Its a very clean organized salvage yard with near perfect assembled
complete vehicles which is hard too believe. Junkyards I’ve been to in
Colorado and Texas all vehicles there are rat fucked to pieces and auto
parts scattered all over the yards and there are crowds of illegals going
through them vehicles.
I have a running mustang 1980 they gave me only $150.
perfume on a pig a junkyard is a junkyard.
Pull-A-Part Birmingham, AL ;b
I wish I had such a well organized scrapyard in my area.
Did they have kia’s there
Very professional yard! I wish there were some like that around here.
that’s a very clean yard
6:31 if my dad ever do this to my 1998 Renalt twingo i promise paying
whitout end
Course they had shit kias in imports dumb fuck
Sometimes the eye balling is the best part. I collect vintage car emblems
and found trim for an 81 AMC Eagle! I’d never seen one in person but
stumbled across it while looking for parts for my Ford
It would be extremely stupid if these cars are crushed with the engine
still in them.. !!
After months of sitting there, usually only the shell is left or any parts
that are too far gone. At my yard I go to, they have a 68 Camaro, 76 coupe
De Ville, 68 Volvo P1800, 67 Impala, and 65 Mustang Coupe. They’ve been
there for months. When they meet the crusher, they are completely stripped.
Nothing goes to waste
Is it me or does this guy kinda sound like Samuel Jackson
The way I look at it, most of the cars in junkyards are not potential
collectibles or classics. Nobody is going to pine for an Aerostar or a
conversion van or a Cavalier. That’s not to say some cool cars don’t end up
in the yard, they certainly do. There’s a cool green TR7 in my regular yard
in Detroit and there once was a V12 XJR that I just wanted to buy and take
home. Alas, we also have to realize that for many cars to live, some must
die. It’s the cycle of automotive life. -Ben Wojdyla
Its takes ruffly 80 thousand pounds, to crush a car, the weight of a fully
loaded semi, that’s what it was a few years ago, it mite be more or lees
now.
They cut a hole in the tank because from a liability perspectve they cannot
have any fuel in the yard, it’s a huge fire hazard. They only way to
guaranty a fuel tank is completely empty is to pierce it so all the fuel
drains out and any remainder evaporates. – Ben Wojdyla
my thoughts exactly; junk yards where I live are a lot different. Cars ly
in the yard for years until every good part is stripped from it and
basically just the uni-body is left.
So they drill a hole on the fuel tank to take out the fuel? What if someone
needs a fuel tank?
dude needs to go to hollywood. sam jackson can’t do all the work.
Are you sure that’s not Samuel Jackson
thats the problem at pick n pulls junkyards and stuff. people cut off
components surrounding the one piece they need and ruin all the other parts
for anyone else that needs one its fucking annoying
ah the memories, sweet stuff
I agree. This yard is very organized. Lined up by maker and year. If you
need a part for a GM or Ford, you can go to a section that features either,
rather than spending an hr trying to eye out what you need!
By the time you grow up, there wont be any junk yards! We can just yank the
battery out of it, and dump it back into the melt to make more plastic
pellets to either build more cars or to make more Fisher Price toys!
So that´s what Samuel L.Jackson been doin´in his offtime , managing a
junkyard !
Why weren’t the tires/wheels removed prior to crushing? Seems like a waste
to me, as I’m sure someone would buy them.
that is heaven for me
first second and third are losers!!!
Just wait, there will be more this weekend. Part two shows you what kinds
of things you should be after at a junkyard. – Ben Wojdyla
I see cars being crushed that has lots of good Exterior Body parts on them!
Whats up with that? O^O How come these yards only give several hundred for
the whole car and crush the exterior, yet when I need a dent fixed at the
body shop, its 1500.00 bucks?
My brother and i got in trouble for assembling a car in the yard. With a
battery, and fluids. I bet it would have started right up.
I appreciate what you’re saying, but there are very, very few cars that I
consider collectible from the last twenty years, and those RARELY show up
in boneyards. Every time I see something interesting (there was a CRX HF in
this one) it’s usually crashed and well picked over. I consider the Cash
for Clunkers program a genuine tragedy — so many good cars died As far as
my car guy creds, I’m currently rebuilding a 1950 Packard Super 8 to go
racing with it. – Ben Wojdyla
my god this yard is clean, and they actually take out the fluids.. in los
angeles, CA its anything goes.. in a real junkyard
Cool, I figured it would but it would have to be a full restore or a one
off original.
I agree. At some time, everyone of these cars were on a new car lot, with
price tags, with people dreaming and deciding which to buy. Each one was
financed, drove off the lot, and loved for many years before ending up
here!
Yeah! I have one! If you find a Escort Engine from a 90-94 DOHC, can you
send it my way? Need it for a engine swap into a Festiva. OH! And a MTX75
transmission from a Focus MK1 🙂 Thanks!!!!
I love junkyards and I am going to own a junkyard when I grow up.
Many places won’t even allow the sale of fuel tanks, even when empty
HA HA I was about to post the same thing!
The gas can go bad and corrode the inside of the fuel tank, making it more
useless. If you really needed a new fuel tank, then plug up the hole. A
hell of a lot better than dealing with a rust layer.
I hated the part when the intrepid gets crushed because my nephew DOeSnT
have one! people get sick of picking him up for work!
The car is only issued a certificate of destruction when it’s shredded at
the recycler. Up until that point a title still exists for the car and it
is owned by the salvage yard. Depending on the kind of vehicle it is, it
may be a clear title or it may be on a salvage title. – Ben Wojdyla
That junk yard is way more organized than the ones in MN!
You can buy a complete car, but realize that it will have gone through
processing, so some things will need to be replaced. – Ben Wojdyla
why dont you guys take parts for the junk yard to make a car or truck using
only recycled parts