Great day at the wrecking yard

[68 TT]

I scored some great stuff today at the wrecking yard.

Got a dash mounted delay wiper switch with delay module & pigtail for $3 out of a 79 that should give me the badly needed delay wipers in my 78 with little work.

Scored a small tail gate band for all of $5 The dealer emblem on it came off easily with no damage to the band. One very tiny needle sized ding that should come out pretty easily, otherwise it just needs some fresh paint to make it perfect.

Found a small fuel gauge still in a truck that used to have a factory tach. Unfortunately the hack who grabbed the tach butchered the housing to get it out so it wasn't any good and they ruined the printed circuit too. Scumbag hackers at the yard need a whoopin sometimes. Fuel gauge cost a big $2

Scored a near perfect 74 deep grille shell complete with 350 emblem. Only damage is one mounting screw flange is cracked just a little bit. Just needs a tiny bit of epoxy to solidify the one mount. The rest is flawless. I will probably fix it and sell it but might keep it and see how I like the looks on my truck.

Got a good in pan wire harness and about two feet of the external wire harness for my 4L80E to replace and upgrade the damaged connector on mine. The in-pan harness runs for over $100 to get a replacement and the guy at the yard gave it to me for free! Woo hoo. Now the 4L80E can go into my 68 Camaro to tame down the gearing and give me full control over the shift characteristics.

Got the 16197427 PCM out of the 4L80E harness donor too for $9 and that included the PCM carrier I yanked out of a whale Caprice that mounts the PCM to the kick panel.

The same van I got the PCM & trans harness out of also had a beautify condition two button power window switch plus the matching single button passenger side switch and one perfect power lock switch that I scored for $6

Not a bad day at the yard.