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Wrecking yard lead
EVILDR235
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Check out your local wrecking yard for lead.Chrysler products with tilt steering wheels have a lead weight of about 3 pounds mounted in the steering wheels to make them down when you pull the tilt lever.Some Crown vics and lincolns have metal can mount on the rear of the transmission full of lead shot.I have a large coffee can full of the shot and it weighs appox 80 pounds.And of course wheel weights.
EvilDr235
EvilDr235
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Any yard that lets you take apart a $100 steering column to salvage 3# of lead is nuts.
If it is a wrecking or a scrap yard it is scrap, they cannot sell parts once it is there, it has to go for scrap at least in PA. Now a salvage yard is a different thing, they are there to sell and salvage parts. The scrap yard that a deal told me legally they cannot sell any parts at all not matter what it is, and then there is the liability of you getting hurt while removing parts. Now that is here in PA and the place I deal with is pretty strict about the rules. I picked up a new set of tire chains at the scrap yard and asked the guy what they wanted for them and he told weight for weight, couldn't sell but could swap out. That was something laying right there, they won't let you rummage around.
EvilDr235