I've got a 97 Explorer just sitting around, let the registration lapse a couple years ago; a neighbor claimed to want it but he never really took any decisive action; I didn't want to deal with a Craigslist situation during this whole pandemic thing; was probably going to just let a tow yard take it.
But recently after finally beginning to work on my T4R and visiting here, and considering the used car market is apparently thriving, I'm wondering if I should try to part it out.
It has issues, nothing major, but enough that I don't want to try selling it whole. I figure if I tried that, at *most* I might get 1k, but probably not even.
So now I'm wondering about parting it out. I figure it might be a valuable learning tool, similar to what's happening with my T4R--learning to identify parts, what they're called, how to remove them, disassemble them, clean them, restore them.
The downsides I see are: it will distract me from my T4R; everything will be SAE while I'm finally acclimating to the T4R metric--and was going to just buy metric tools, which I still need to do--and I will have to be diligent about keeping the hardware segregated, screws, nuts, bolts.
So I'm deliberating. Will it be worth it? Is there a solid market for the parts, as with T4Rs, or are they considered disposable vehicles after a certain point? If it were a T4R, I wouldn't hesitate at all. But a Ford?
What's your opinion?
But recently after finally beginning to work on my T4R and visiting here, and considering the used car market is apparently thriving, I'm wondering if I should try to part it out.
It has issues, nothing major, but enough that I don't want to try selling it whole. I figure if I tried that, at *most* I might get 1k, but probably not even.
So now I'm wondering about parting it out. I figure it might be a valuable learning tool, similar to what's happening with my T4R--learning to identify parts, what they're called, how to remove them, disassemble them, clean them, restore them.
The downsides I see are: it will distract me from my T4R; everything will be SAE while I'm finally acclimating to the T4R metric--and was going to just buy metric tools, which I still need to do--and I will have to be diligent about keeping the hardware segregated, screws, nuts, bolts.
So I'm deliberating. Will it be worth it? Is there a solid market for the parts, as with T4Rs, or are they considered disposable vehicles after a certain point? If it were a T4R, I wouldn't hesitate at all. But a Ford?
What's your opinion?
