A little long......
I was sitting in my office Tuesday checking out this site, a few others and the local weather for Wednesday. Well it was supposed to be 65 degrees so I decided to screw work on Wed. and go to Harry's, our local u-pull it yard.
I was looking for a headlight for the wife's car and anything I could scrounge up for the Ranger. I never got around looking for the headlight but what I did find was a 98 Ranger with the whole drivetrain removed, but with the whole interior intact. I rarely see any Rangers newer than the late eighties there so this was like I just won the lottery and I was going to take whatever I could before it was all gone. I didn't rent a cart so I could only take what I could carry. I realized afterwards that I must have looked like an idiot carrying so much.

Here is what I got:
2 complete door panels, including the plastic trim and window handles
center floor console/cup holder
dash trim around the instrument cluster including the dimmer switch and headlight switch
rearview mirror
drivers side window track Mine broke, don't know how, but it did
2 license plate light holders Someone on here needed them but I see he already got them.
low side AC pressure switch
lots of fuses and relays
both side mirrors
computer
door lock caps
what I believe is the airbag module which looks like a black box with one plug
tranny cooler Which I may need some help on how to make this work for my 97.
heater control panel
passenger side airbag cut off switch and trim I wish I could find a way to hook this up for mine.
And my favorite.....
the rear jumpseat cup holder panel Mine just has the metal panel across the back. I had to drill some new holes and cut the clips off of the back of the panel to make it work but I now have cup holders back there for the oldest when she sits back there.

This truck also had the front and rear tow hooks that I tried to get off. They were on there good and I couldn't do it. Next time I go I'll take a larger persuader bar to get them off if it's still there.

And to top it all off my abs light has been off now for 2 weeks since I cleaned the electrical connection at the valve! All in all it was a good day. Now if i could only fix that 1445 code.....

I'll post some pics tonight of my treasure along with the pics of my broken crankshaft that happened a few weeks back.

I may take another trip this weekend to see if I could grab anything else. the place is only 5 min. away. If anyone needs anything let me know and I will see if I could grab it. Some of the above I am also not going to use, but I got greedy.

 

sounds like you scored big...

 

looks like ur not going this weekend LOL.

i was there wednesday with my buddy. didnt get much but we got there late. i may go back next weekend...supposed to be nice...hope what i was is still there.

 

Yeah, isn't this weather wonderful! 65 one day, a few days later it's freakin snowing. That's what we get for living around here. I needed that sun though, I was starting to go mad and drink to much. lol

The best time to go is early in morning before all the local and out of state mechanics show up. I was also expecting a lot more mud but it wasn't too bad.

 

dang... you should have taken you truck and park it next to that other ranger and just put everything in the bed! Congrats man, nice find!

 

Here are my finds:

 

Here is a pic of the cupholder panel installed:



Not to bad, doesn't look out of place or anything and it actually fit pretty well.