We got in late last night after bringing my new M35A2C home from a GL auction at Tinker AFB in OK.
I had planned to take a lot of pictures for before and after but upon showing up at Tinker and talking to the GL rep, my day was suddenly booked solid.
The conversation started with, "what did you bring with you to take it back home?" I countered with, "I was going to drive it home." He 'checked' with, "how? It doesn't have any brakes?" That is when plans of pictures and a nice enjoyable morning drive back to Texas changed. GL listing said that it Starts and Runs, but neglected to say that it didn't stop.
Luckily, my brother is extremely knowledgeable with all things mechanical. (I owe him big time for yesterday and a hundred other projects he has helped me with from my first memory. )
We looked over the truck and everything looked pretty good. Went through the GTA and everything except the brakes looked pretty good. All in all a very clean truck. Even came with a half a tank of clean (looking/smelling) diesel.
We put in a quart of DOT 5 fluid in the reservoir and pumped the brakes, they started getting better, but in the end I would only get some braking with the first push, with the pedal on the floor. The second pump was perfect though. Pedal engaged quickly/high and was very firm. Holding it over a few minutes with no creep and no leaks. I had spilled a little fluid so we couldn't see any leaks because it was wet from my spill, but nothing major. No leaks at any of the wheels.
We attempted to jump it, but the batteries were totally dead. We decided to pull start it after 15 min of charging with no effect. The Deuce started right up, no smoke and pretty quite for a Deuce. Definitely not a C turbo, but I am happy with a D, and was actually what I wanted. Anyway, without batteries we had no lights and some of the gauges didn't seem to work, so we shut it down.
We decided to go get some lunch and pick up some new Batteries, came back put them in and the heater fan came on. I ran over and turned it off, but we now know why the batteries that were fine a month earlier were stone dead when I showed up. Since temps are in the 100s I am not sure why someone turned on and left the heater running??? Anyway, put in the new batteries and started it up no problem. All the guages seem to work save the fuel gauge. All the lights worked so we were good, save for the brake issue.
My brother felt comfortable driving it around the yard, so we dumped in my 10 gallons of fresh diesel and headed out. Brother wanted to drive it until we got out of town. We were just off the Highway, so we didn't have to do much city driving. I took lead in my pick aka tertiary braking device, but he had no issues. We were only a couple blocks from the HWY and traffic was very polite and gave the deuce plenty of room. The truck climbed some decent hills with no smoke and no downshifting required. Temp was running at 180 with the outside temp over a hundred. I was going to bring it back to my house but due to the brake issues we took it to my brothers instead. He lives just south of the OK boarder and is a lot closer. Also we would avoid having to drive into DFW area at rush hour. I would probably be leaning on his skill set to get the truck back to 100%, so it was the obvious choice.
Below is a little video I took of him crossing the Red River back into Texas. Sorry for the shaky camera. My first focus was driving the truck so I just aimed it in the general direction of the Deuce and hit record. I had to slice in the second camera angle from the other side of the bridge.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbATovMhVfM[/media]
I had planned to take a lot of pictures for before and after but upon showing up at Tinker and talking to the GL rep, my day was suddenly booked solid.
The conversation started with, "what did you bring with you to take it back home?" I countered with, "I was going to drive it home." He 'checked' with, "how? It doesn't have any brakes?" That is when plans of pictures and a nice enjoyable morning drive back to Texas changed. GL listing said that it Starts and Runs, but neglected to say that it didn't stop.
Luckily, my brother is extremely knowledgeable with all things mechanical. (I owe him big time for yesterday and a hundred other projects he has helped me with from my first memory. )
We looked over the truck and everything looked pretty good. Went through the GTA and everything except the brakes looked pretty good. All in all a very clean truck. Even came with a half a tank of clean (looking/smelling) diesel.
We put in a quart of DOT 5 fluid in the reservoir and pumped the brakes, they started getting better, but in the end I would only get some braking with the first push, with the pedal on the floor. The second pump was perfect though. Pedal engaged quickly/high and was very firm. Holding it over a few minutes with no creep and no leaks. I had spilled a little fluid so we couldn't see any leaks because it was wet from my spill, but nothing major. No leaks at any of the wheels.
We attempted to jump it, but the batteries were totally dead. We decided to pull start it after 15 min of charging with no effect. The Deuce started right up, no smoke and pretty quite for a Deuce. Definitely not a C turbo, but I am happy with a D, and was actually what I wanted. Anyway, without batteries we had no lights and some of the gauges didn't seem to work, so we shut it down.
We decided to go get some lunch and pick up some new Batteries, came back put them in and the heater fan came on. I ran over and turned it off, but we now know why the batteries that were fine a month earlier were stone dead when I showed up. Since temps are in the 100s I am not sure why someone turned on and left the heater running??? Anyway, put in the new batteries and started it up no problem. All the guages seem to work save the fuel gauge. All the lights worked so we were good, save for the brake issue.
My brother felt comfortable driving it around the yard, so we dumped in my 10 gallons of fresh diesel and headed out. Brother wanted to drive it until we got out of town. We were just off the Highway, so we didn't have to do much city driving. I took lead in my pick aka tertiary braking device, but he had no issues. We were only a couple blocks from the HWY and traffic was very polite and gave the deuce plenty of room. The truck climbed some decent hills with no smoke and no downshifting required. Temp was running at 180 with the outside temp over a hundred. I was going to bring it back to my house but due to the brake issues we took it to my brothers instead. He lives just south of the OK boarder and is a lot closer. Also we would avoid having to drive into DFW area at rush hour. I would probably be leaning on his skill set to get the truck back to 100%, so it was the obvious choice.
Below is a little video I took of him crossing the Red River back into Texas. Sorry for the shaky camera. My first focus was driving the truck so I just aimed it in the general direction of the Deuce and hit record. I had to slice in the second camera angle from the other side of the bridge.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbATovMhVfM[/media]
), from sitting, in the master or airpacks alternately blocking some of the little passages ?
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. They also dumped a bunch of "stuff" into the fuel tank. I get 300-400 miles on a filter, gee thanks. They must have knowen I was in the army, **** airforce they will hose you every time. But other then that its a great truck, o they broke the troop seats too, fried the clutch and fly wheel and transmisson. But I knew about the trans as it was not in the truck and the broken seats were in the pics so I hoped that that kept the $$ down.
