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No, they didn't refund me as I have had the shelter all along. They got a new kid to run the yard who likes to talk & not do paperwork, hence the shelter was never listed as picked up. The next fiasco was terminal & during the bidding process, my screen flipped & the Humvee topper I was bidding...

Nobody is messing with you, just sharing years of experience dealing with military trucks bought from the auctions. You see a truck up for auction, or anything else @ the GP auction, you examine it closely from the pictures & hope nothing was omitted in the pictures or description. Big ticket...

Excellent, thank you very much for that info!

I have seen several of those come up for auction & bid on them, but they usually were too far away or I got outbid. The folks that owned them didn't have a real "use" for them, they just loved to go out & start one every so often & impress friends or warn less than favorable neighbors not to be...

I checked on those batteries last night & they would cost me $280.00 plus taxes, so I am back in the same ball park as with the battery that came with the generator. I guess since I have a M-701a with a new military battery in it; I will just move the battery over to the M-831 & jump the M-701...

If you don't mind, which size motorcycle batteries did you buy to put in place of the OEM 24v unit?

If you pay the fine of $500.00, they will not stop you from bidding, but you get nothing out of it, except to continue bidding & give them more of your money. I have been buying & bidding since 2013 when it was government Liquidation & when they demanded the $500.00 fine, I politely told them to...

If you back out on this truck, they will fine you $500.00 to be able to do so & still retain your ability to bid on their auctions. Don't ask me how I know. You could ship this one home & buy another one like it & use this one for parts, but that is quite expensive an endeavor.

I had two red top Optima batteries in my first Deuce back in 2014 that came with the truck when it was auctioned. They lasted 5 more years till one died & the other went on the shelf. When my Toyota battery died unexpectedly, I installed the remaining red top in it as a quick fix, & ran it for...

Since I retired I started working on things around the property more in earnest than normally. I uncovered the M-831 & went to crank it & all the fans & pumps worked fine but the starter wouldn't even clip or chatter. The battery was hooked up to a 7 amp charger & charged for a few hours. After...

Welcome from Gainesville, good luck with your nonrunner. It may be simple, or a little more involved. Good Luck! I looked @ the pictures of your LMTV up @ Lake Butler & it seems to be a good truck, but you have your work cut out for you finding all the scavenged parts.

Isn't there a lugnut on the outer wheel & a bud stud on the inner holding the tire on? I forget the terms for some reason, but it seems that you have initially broken the lug nuts loose & now broken the budnuts away from the drum & locked them against the backside of the outer wheel. I have one...

Better rivets than open rusting holes, but aluminum oxidises, not rusts. I would leave them alone!

Okay, your copy & paste is more accurate than my failing memory!

I started going in fall of 2008 before the election that year & I never saw so much ammo being bought & hauled to customers vehicles hundreds of yards away in the parking lots on military mules. The machinegun fire on the range, Hueys flying nonstop for Friday & Saturday, the explosions on the...

You said Jesus would get mad, not Santa. Santa doesn't exist, so he doesn't matter. I did read a great part of the TM's & the 14 page Steel Soldiers info about the M831A, but my CRS got the best of me. Sticks & coal, bring them on for the winter heating in the wood/coal fired stove, I can...

I learn so much from the experts here, thanks for the update. I was not aware of the micro switch, but seeing that the cooling fan came on when the door was closed is a sure sign of a switch. Years ago, I would have gotten mad for buying a faulty piece of military equipment . Now I know that I...

Again checking out the generator after the tropical storm this past week. It cranked easily, but quit producing power after 10 seconds, like it was wet again. The unit was run another 10 minutes & shut down to dry out the inverter. A couple of hours later, I opened the voltage change over door...

I opened the generator back up yesterday after several hours of light rain & even though it was covered with a military tarp, water had condensed all over the inside of the generator cover. After leaving it open for an hour, it started right up & produced power as it is supposed to. The next...

I bought a 3k inverter genset from Lake Butler GovPlanet just as James did & it had the same problems of tripping offline on short/overload. After letting the unit run a bit & warm up the electronics, it went to generating power & acting like it should. These unit are 2006 manufacture & have...