With the front of the Tracker cut out I was able to easily pull the engine and transmission from the truck by just jacking the unit up then pushing the truck body back until everything was clear of the body. With that I was able to lower everything to the ground and separate the transmission from the engine. I really won't need the engine as it was already starting to go bad, plus I was going to retain the new Tracker's transmission since it'll probably be easier to pull the engine separately from the truck. With the powertrain out I continued to pull other components from the truck. I pulled the taillights, front seats, radio, sun visors, computer, the horn button and USB charger port, the master cylinder and brake booster, radiator overflow bottle, fuse holders and relays, wiper motor, power steering hose and horns. There was obviously other shit that was pulled prior to pulling the engine. These components will make good spares for the new Tracker in case any of those parts go bad or worn on it. These trucks are more rare and replacement parts are definitely harder to find compared to some other small SUV's. I would rather have a lot of spare parts available that I may never use than to be going nuts trying to find other junked trucks to pull parts from. Another thing that I did that'll net me some more salvage money later on was cut all the wires that I was able to access easily. This was limited to the engine compartment and a couple of stretches of wire bundles in the door frame and under the seat. Just like before I was able to burn up the wire to get rid of the insulation so I'm just left with the copper, which the scrapyard prefers over the regular wire since the weight isn't taken up by plastic insulation. After all of this stripping and molestation of the already crippled truck, the last thing that I've been doing was swapping out the mag wheels and installing the plain and heavy steel wheels from the new Tracker. The mag wheels are way lighter and are just more stylish than the steel wheels so I had to keep them. The only thing is the tires on the steel wheels are WAY better than the worn out tires that are on the crushed Tracker. I was able to immediately swap out the spare tires since the old Tracker's spare tire was good just like the new Tracker's. With the other wheels I had to swap tires around for each pair so the old Tracker can get the steel wheel with a shitty tire while the new Tracker has the nicer mag wheels with newer tires. Another thing that I did was pull the rear brake parts out. I had replaced the wheel cylinders and brake shoes for both rear wheels a good while back and didn't want to let this stuff go to the junkyard since these parts were still plenty usable. Since I had to pull the other hardware loose in order to remove those desired components I just figured I'd throw all of the parts into a bucket and if necessary I can hang on to this shit if I need to work on the rear brakes on the new Tracker. I also swapped out the trailer hitch. I got this hitch from a junkyard Tracker a while back and was NOT going to let this go to the yard so it came off and was installed on the new Tracker. The hitch obviously adds to the utility of the truck as a whole.
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