I bought SAAB 900 Turbo #4 for its transmission and some other bits. Finally got to start dissasembling the other day. Never done this before and it was pretty darn fun. No need thinking about how to reinstall the widget so that it actually works. And interesting to see how the Swedish Bikini Team screwed this one together 21 years ago. A lot of it felt hand assembled. May do this again with my kids so they can see what is behind things and how they all connect...
it is always fun the first time. every other time after is just work. then eventually it gets to "i'm too old for this E36 M3"
patgizz wrote: it is always fun the first time. every other time after is just work. then eventually it gets to "i'm too old for this E36 M3"
That's funny and very true.
patgizz wrote: it is always fun the first time. every other time after is just work. then eventually it gets to "i'm too old for this E36 M3"
That's when you have your kids do it if they're old enough -and you're lucky enough to have kids. Makes for a nice learning experience...
oh, and then they can cut the grass....
I took a free CB 750F down to the last nut and bolt about 15 years ago and I'm still using metric hardware from that bucket
Woody wrote: I took a free CB 750F down to the last nut and bolt about 15 years ago and I'm still using metric hardware from that bucket
This is probably the best side effect of parting out cars. I have a few boxes that friends have come to refer to as the magical box of VW bolts, that always seems to have a spare of what they're looking for.
Agreed it gets less fun and more "work" the more times you do it, but it's usually the cheapest way to get whatever major item you're after... making the keeper parts cheap/free/or even profitable at the end of the day.
Every time I do it, it's for someone else and there's always that nagging question about contacting some disease from all of the rat crap under the rear seats and inside the heater ducting . . .
Woody wrote: I took a free CB 750F down to the last nut and bolt about 15 years ago and I'm still using metric hardware from that bucket
Amen. I have at least 4 of every fastener on a Mk1 and Mk2 MR2. I remember when I was young what an ordeal it was to replace broken/stripped hardware.
Now if I drop a bolt, it's easier to go grab a duplicate than try to find the dropped one. When I sweep the floor and find it, it goes back in the bucket..
One of these days, I'm going to organize my fasteners rather than dump everything in the floor and scratch through it.
I learn more about how a car is put together by taking it apart than reading or researching will ever do.
You want to know how I know what parts from an 86.5 Supra fit in a 91?
I bought the last useable body parts off an engineless Miata in a junkyard just before they were going to send it to the crusher. I put the 10, 12 and 14mm sockets on my cordless impact gun and got everything that I could.
Woody wrote: I bought the last useable body parts off an engineless Miata in a junkyard just before they were going to send it to the crusher. I put the 10, 12 and 14mm sockets on my cordless impact gun and got everything that I could.
Whoa..wait a minute here. Did I just read that you came across a Miata that was about to be crushed and you didn't save it?? We're all disappointed in you. The real Woody would have rounded up his alien friends and used the giant magnet to save that car from the crusher. For shame... 
I am going to part out my 92 and 95 sho's here before long.....the 92 will get chopped up and I'll prolly offer to donate the rolling shell of the 95 to a lemons/chumpcar team......why? BECAUSE NO HOLE IN THE ROOF
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