Hoarding Old Parts

[EricTheCarGuy]

This is something I think we’re all guilty of to some degree. What are your thoughts?

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[Dave]

It has saved my butt on more than one occasion.

[Gary]

Guilty, but glad I do it. Comes in handy for fabrications, rebuilds, etc etc. If all else fails it goes for scrap metal! Really I love to tinker so hanging onto old parts allows me to pass time when I have time to do so. I still have the original 4L60-E +torque converter from my 2008(replaced it with a performance tranny) and the original is still sitting in the shed to this day years after the truck got trashed. Granted I could turn around and sell it for 1000-1200 bucks or so and if I needed to do that I could, as the original only has 43,000 miles on it, but I would like to hang onto it for a potential future project especially since the cores for the newer 4l60-Es are still rare to come buy in scrapyards(I wonder who the lucky bastard is who scored my performance unit that was still attached to the truck!)

[dan]

got 3800 series II upper plenum and throttle body, several sets of 3800 ignition coils, W body radiator, 3800 series III throttle body, and I think a 3800 alternator, in the trunk of the car I got the old stock sized belt, and I think the stock sized water pump pulley, older spark plugs, a extra MSD wire, 3800 series II piston on the shelf in my room, and a 3800 series II con rod in the trunk, probably more, guilty as charged.

[EricTheCarGuy]

I think the reason we keep doing it is because there’s no better feeling than pulling a free part out of a pile that fixes an issue. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s like magic.

[Gary]

[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=121888]I think the reason we keep doing it is because there’s no better feeling than pulling a free part out of a pile that fixes an issue. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s like magic.[/quote] For sure, and it ain’t just car parts I stockpile. I also have circuit breakers, wiring plumbing pipe etc etc. You never know when you are gonna need it.

[dan]

[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=121888]I think the reason we keep doing it is because there’s no better feeling than pulling a free part out of a pile that fixes an issue. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s like magic.[/quote]

someone could use the radiator, or the alternator, so many people drive W body cars here in Michigan including several of my friends, they need a radiator, I got one… ignition coil? sure, for 3100 3400 and 3800 engines! 🙂

[Todd]

Definitely a hoarder of parts… Senior year of high school my dream was to start my own junk yard. Made signs and word got out I took junk. So I filled the back couple acres at the parents farm with rows and rows of cars, trucks, motorcycles, buses etc.. Had a blast doing it and selling, using, making demo cars. Thank god we were so far out in the country… All gone now except for all the good stuff I kept. You are exactly right, the more room you have, the more you keep!

[Jesse]

this was maybe 1/3 the thing in the basement of My moms house when i was 19 its an 11ft wide row house. and getting the engines through the alleyway there was so tight it left me maybe about 1 inch or less on each side

Now I’m not kidding that wassnt even the other 2/3 of the things.

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