New Hood For the Ranger

Yes it is and no you don't walk back there, you drive. It would take a full day to walk through there. The roads are well maintained.

What you do is you check in, tell them what your looking for and they tell you what section you need to go to. You find what you are looking for and you go through the check out before you leave.

Its no problem and people have been banned for stealing. Its not worth it. For example, if they have to find the hood for me and pull it (because for example I'm banned and I'm NOT)would have cost $100. I can go in the back, find and pull my own part and its only $70.

I love that place, everytime I go I will spend 3 or 4 hours in the yard. Its just tooo cool.

And just think they did not have one Mustang SVO

 

If you pull your own parts, you need to drive in. And the hood that I found was about a 1/2-mile from the gate. Carrying a hood for a 1/2-mile would be tough. By the way, the other teacher that was with me drove his Harley back there.

This wrecking yard is huge. Walking around it is not practical. That arial photo in the website is old. There are alot more rows of cars now.

 

Come on down, we'll make a day of it.

I do spend alot of time there, and so do some of my friends. We have gone out there many times just because. The staff knows us pretty well. In fact, this last time, they didnt even check to see what was in my truck. I just drove out the gate, parked, went inside, had a cup of coffee, and paid for the hood. Went home.

Check this out

The yellow highlighted areas are new rows of cars. The arrow is the gate where you check in and out. The yellow/red dot is about where I found the hood.

 

Abilene Texas

 

Seriously taking my time.

The scoop will be going to school with me tomorrow (its already in my truck). I plan on getting the scoop cut, flanged and fitted tomorrow. The louvers are the first part. The welding will be done at the High School welding shop.

Hopefully we will get it welded Tuesday or Wednesday. I will be taking and posting pictures.

Scoop and louvers first then we are still a two or three weeks out on the hood.

 

Again, this project will take a couple of months. I am NOT rushing through this.

So here is what I've done today

My vision








Again there will be more to come, but I will take my time.

So tommy2tone, in your opinion, whats the best filler?

 

You're funny and NO I did'nt :lol:

 

We had some really nice weather today and got alot done on the scoop. We did not like the way the louvers fit, so they were cut off, refitted and put back on.

The louvers were clamped on using screws



Then we welded the louver panel to the scoop





We grinded the welds down, put a little primer on it. The body work will be done after its attached to the hood



We cut the hood, cut the scoop, figured out where everything needs to go and decided to call it a day