A scrapyard near here pays/paid a friend $10 to pull out the wiring loom from scrapped cars before they were crushed.
He got a flat $10 per loom ripped out, they keep the loom of course. It was his saturday/Sunday spending $ perk.
Since the cars are lined up and nothing else is happening in the yard it was easy work.
I used to do it on cars that were stacked up to 5 high, and partly crushed. Main thing was to figure out the side 'earth wires that branch off the looms on Japanese cars, they hold you up if you don't know they are there.
And to pull the main cable thru the firewall as much as possible before cutting it, use tin snips, so you can then pull it from the other side and get to be able to cut around the rubber boot that's attached to the loom & the firewall.
And get as much of the alternator/starter motor/battery cable out in one piece, as you can strip its insulation off and get 'Bare bright' price for it.
But...… if you can score this job somewhere, chances are you could get to keep the computers too.
While you are there, AC & Heater cores (1Lb each) as well as the Airbags.
. Don't forget the spare change under the carpets.
Best car was a 1985+ Honda Accord, all electric stuff thruout it.
Easyest was a Mercedes (maybe it was a BMW?) The whole dashboard just disintegrated once its vinyl covering was broken up. AC core was a heater core sized block of Aluminium. Steering column was held in by bolts with clips, wiring loom had individual wire going to every electronic fixture, from a 'mainsboard' on each side of the cabin firewall.
Ie, in their design they started with the idea that it was the occupants safety that mattered first, getting them out in a crash situation was their main goal, simply remove windscreen and stand on bonnet and start chopping thru the top of the dashboard with a fire axe. It disintegrates into 2inch square plastic plates, pull out the dashboard covering, unclip the steering colum and remove it.
The occupants are now sitting in a open empty cabin.
There is no way that could be done in a japanese car..…. They are a pressed steel & flammable material cage.
To get their firewalls wiring loom, remove the windscreen (use safety glasses!!! Gloves) undo the 3 bolts near the windscreens base and use your legs to lever the dash backwards to open it up and get into it from above.
Oh, car computers.. I found some a few days ago, did a Google search to find oiut what they were from.
Turns out they are from a 1996 Holden V6 3.8L….
Wait for it...
Ex Police car…. Lol.
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