Auctions observations

[hwcurtice]

So, I'm looking at the various large trucks that are being auctioned off on GL, wish they would do some in Washington, but I notice that most, if not all, have either a pallet or a drip pan under them.

Does this concern you, if it has a drip pan, or make you feel better, if there is a wooden pallet under them? I'm guessing the wooden pallet is for moving them with a forklift and trying, yes trying, not to damage the vehicle while doing so.

Of course, those with flat tires worry me. Those with what looks like fluid leaks coming of the hubs worry me too. The ones with missing engines, well....

 

[gunboy1656]

Drip pan is not a real worry as most of the times it is a military requirement to put a drip pan down. Never really figured out the pallet thing, but I would assume it was for a similar reason.

Seeing the fork damage, I doubt they take the time to lift using a pallet.

Oh, and I have never see an MV that didn't leak, unless it was out of fluid.

 

[porkysplace]

MV's are kinda like Harley's they like to mark their spot

 

[jhooah]

Perhaps: Put a pallet down to stick the drip pan on, easier than bending down to crawl under there, etc for a guy riding a forklift. Then he only has to remove the pallet as he's riding by later...
WAW

 

[wiggall]

The pallet will normaly have an oil absorbing cloth on them.

 

[wiggall]

Ft. Lewis will have a few 5 tons go through, but the 2.5 tons were perty much moved through in 08. One will show up once in a while, but they are mostly parts trucks.

 

[SETOYOTA]

It is a requirement to have the drip pan. The funny thing to me is the pans are actually baking pans.

 

[wreckerman893]

Drip pans were part of Basic Issue Items (BII)....after you bought one or two you remembered to pick them up.

Lots of guys were bad about running over them.

 

[mcmullag]

not daily drivers

It's a guv-mint thang, those drip pans and pallets. If you are lucky, in warm weather, the trucks don't leak as much, also if you run them regularily, they seem to not leak and drip as much. Seems like all the gaskets and seals harden up or are dry and not sealing in the best way because the trucks sit idle so much of the time.

 

[rchalmers3]

I guess some of these babies are still in diapers.

The last truck I picked up both leaked from the crank seals and was drained. Hows that for being determined?

Rick

 

[DieselBob]

Kind of like radial engines. If it doesn't leak there is something wrong with it. Although my deuce doesn't leak much but I haven't put many miles on it yet.

 

[41cl8m5]

I saw a GL worker move a truck with a fork truck. Having the palet under the front axle of the truck is, I guess convenant. Always wondered why there were no chalks and the brakes were off. Of course the GL lots I have seen are mostly level

 

[popacom]

The DRMO guys were about as hard on driveshafts as the GL crews are,used to
make me sick to my stomach . LOL popacom / BILL in KY.