That is not always the case, the junkyards around here have crushed most everything older then 1990. So for me making a junkyard run is going to Salt Lake City (which is about 50 miles away) going to Idaho (which the nearest yard I know of is roughly 110 miles away) or going down the street to Autozone. Most of the time when I do find something in the junkyard that I can even use it is primarily for the core anyways just for the fact I don't know the history of it. I can power wash a motor and make most of the parts look like new but if it fails shortly after (usually within a month or so) not only do I equate the initial setup time but I equate the replacement time of the failed component. This can be said about Autozone parts too though but atleast those are all under warrenty so I am just loosing the cost associated with time replacing the part, I do not have to equate the cost of going back out to the junkyard and searching for something I am able to use. In all honsety I use to enjoy going to the junkyard just to see what I could find that was useable. I use to be able to go out to the junkyard and spend an afternoon and end up with alot more then I would have guessed. I can't even do that much anymore the last thing I was able to find was a floor shifter out of a 90 mustang set up for an AOD it only cost me $5.00 cash but I had to search 3 junkyards over 2 weekends so that cost me not only alot of time going out to the yards and coming back home, but the cost of the fuel had to be factored in, the lost time working on the car itself has to be factored in, the Bi**h factor of my wife has to be factored in because I wasted 2 weekends that I should have been doing honey-do's(this was the most costly part of it) and so on and so forth. Using that reasoning I could probably have just bought a B&M hammerhead shifter for the same amount of heartache....I mean price...It is sad because in the ford section of what use to be my favorite junkyard right now there are more modular motors then there are OHV motors (I am counting 460's and such too)
