NON REPAIRABLE? $600 '99 RAM 1500 Has A 'BAD’ Frame. How Will I Do Parting This Out? TEST EVERYTHING
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Published 2024-05-09
Today's video is here by popular request. The last time I covered a vehicle I bought for parts I got a lot of requests for more, and here is MORE!
This is a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 I bought for parts off of Facebook marketplace. As you can see, the frame is slightly compromised, which renders this truck best for parts. This isn't a vehicle I'd normally buy for parts except for the fact its a lesser common 5-speed manual. In this video I cover a lot of how we treat our vehicles we get in for parts, processes, and even testing procedures, inventory, etc. The manual transmission parts alone make this purchase an easy justification.
My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto recycling business called Importapart. I buy complete vehicles and dismantle them for parts, sell off the good parts and recycle the rest. I wanted to cover a bit of how our business works as I haven't really done that much in the past.
I really hope you enjoyed this video. As always, I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism.
Catch you on the next one!
-Eric
All Comments (21)
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I had an Uncle Worth Dillon that had a Salvage Yard in Greensboro N.C. and the whole family called him "Worthless" until they found out he was one of the richest men in the area. He had sheds full of engines and transmissions attached to chains on beams that he could roll them around on so you could pick the engine you wanted. His wife drove brand new Cadillac's and designer clothes and I saw him in the first suit I ever saw him in at his funeral. My whole life I never saw him in anything but bib overalls, a wife beater and brogans with no laces. He drove old flat bed pick ups and until the day he died would stop at any house with a Junker at it and buy it . He was the greatest guy a kid could grow up knowing. He let me and my cousin take off parts from the vehicles and taught us how and what tools to use but made us do it on our own. His only rule was " Don't care what you wanna try, but once you start, you gotta finish it." God Rest You Uncle Worth.
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All that profit doesn't even include the free fun you had driving that thing around. Thanks for putting the frame cam drive at the end it was glorious.
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I very much liked this one. Recycling parts is way greener than scrapping everything and making new vehicles.
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Digging through the bin of ECM's kind of reminds me of digging through the bargain DVD bin at Walmart.
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FOAM! Spray foam can fix the frame! I've seen it on Just Rolled In Channel!
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Water pump... you can sell the water pump!!
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Saving good parts and selling them for re-use is a good thing to do. Making a living off it is even better. And having fun doing it is getting dessert as your meal. Keep up the good work, keep up the good life!
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You give love a bad frame (I was a teen in the 80s. I REGRET NOTHING!)
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That was, without a doubt, THE most frightening post-credits scene I have ever watched. I thought we were both going to die!!!
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Gives a new meaning to “helper springs”.
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"Non repairable" Who here knows someone that would bolt a couple 4x4s to the frame and send it for a couple more years? Show of hands everybody. Lol
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The engine sounds great for the 200 thousand miles on it but can’t say the same for that rear differential, it was screaming at us.
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this guy definitely just took his hobby and turned it into an income lmao. keep livin the dream!
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Love this deviation of format -- it worked, really well! As someone who is a preservationist at heart (I want to save all the cars people love) and I too do not own expensive cars -- I have rare cars ...they're not valuable, I'm 100% with you on keeping things alive, saving parts and selling them, especially when someone needs "that one stupid part" to make their junk-to-everyone-else car ... perfect
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You drive that truck like I would imagine a typical BMW driver does when they have to borrow a friends pickup, or how Smokey will drive it in the yet to be produced "Smokey & the Ramit". I never get bored with your videos, I like your content like you enjoy comments, ill watch you tear apart a 3.5 HP briggs and stratton using only a fork lift, keep it up and dont change anything.
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19:25 a little JB Weld and it’ll be good as new.
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Any Chrysler product of this era was built out of melted down tupperware and mystery metal, but I got to give it to them, the engines were solid. Those old 5.2's and 5.9's sounded awesome too.
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Sounds easy!! But you gotta look at Eric’s overhead, facility, employees, equipment, the knowledge!! It takes a lot of investment, and hard work, to make a few bucks!!! Super cool video!!
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That flex in the middle, wow! It was bad enough being banana shaped, but seeing it slam the bed into the cab was mind bottling.
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Just picked up a 1999 Reg Cab Dakota with the 5.2 Magnum and a Manual Transmission. Thing is a blast to drive.
