Thread: Locating scrap or salvage yard parts cars....?

ok one tip everyone is missing.... TRAVLE LIGHT! You try carrying all that stuff with tools and see how tired you get walking up and down the junk yard... ughh! i remember i brought my whole toolbox... I had to hide the box while i walked around and looked for the parts i needed!

LOL at the cookies,Shawn..." magic cookies,I suppose"
Yeah I agree with jen...LKQ here has wheelbarrows you can borrow,thats sweet.
Backpack works good too

I usually just brng minimal tools in for a quick walk through first,then go back for everything I may need once I see what parts I want.
It sucks to carry all that crap then not find anything.

Headliner and associated parts...

Plus might have to remove the seats, lower trim panel, a-pillar trim, b-c-upper trim panels, rear-view mirror, oh-shit handles, dome light, and then.....the damn headliner panel. Dammit.


Tools Required:

1) Screwdrivers. Flat head to gently pry if necessary, phillips to remove screws. IIRC a #2 phillips.

2) Long thin pry bar to remove interior trim panels in the rear.

3) Simple ratchet set. All the basic sizes in metric and standard. To remove the seats.

4) Knife. Always got one. Or two.

5) Gerber multi-tool.

6) Small flashlight. In case I cannot find a hidden fastener that is killing me.

IIRC, when I removed my sunroof(ed) headliner and interior, that was about all I needed (?).

Shawn B

sounds about right. Headliners require very basic tools.

Take a #3 phillips if you got one.I am pretty sure the oshit handle are #3

man over here they wont let you use shi t! you cant bring jacks or small torches. Hell they use to pick up the cars for you now they charge to do that..

go with alexis he already knows most of the yards out there and what they have and dont have..

I pm'd you. Grabbed an almost new domelight for you

I should have read that closer.

The headliners are not the same.

I have a 93 4-door non-sunroof headliner and a 93 2-door non-sunroof headliner panel (too fuxored to use) sitting on top of one another in the back of my Tahoe. The panels are damn close, but differ in the placement of the holes, and along the sides they are cut differently. No doubt about it.

What really sucks is there was no 2-door to pull from. All 4-doors and four or five (4-5) of them, three of which had clean headliner panels. One of which I bought and got out super-clean.


They are not. Side by side pictures will tell the tale.

I'm not the least bit happy to figure this out the hard way, but sh*t happens.


I can confirm they are indeed #3 phillips.

Off the the other scrapyard to look for a 2-door headliner. F*ck it, minor set-back. Onward.

Shawn

Shawn, welcome to the salvage world. LOL.