Bonte
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Greetings all,
Just wanted to share a picture of the beast and a quick story about how a forum member saved my entire weekend. Attached is a pic of the 1986 M934A1 Expansible Van shortly after its long trip from Vermont to Maryland! The GL pictures don't do it justice. I'll share more pics when I can.
When I arrived at the site, the GL site contact already had the truck running and ready for us to load out. We did a check of some of the fluids and proceeded to take it off of the base to take a look at it further. Unfortunately, we quickly diagnosed a bad alternator!
My buddy and I thought of ways we could save the weekend and not have to store the truck up in Vermont, we even debated stopping routinely to charge the batteries off of my car and believe it or not, we even tossed around the idea of picking up a 24V charger and a generator and finding a place to strap it to on the truck.
Then I recalled a PM I received from Evil Dr. Porkchop offering help if I needed it. I gave him a call on the very slight chance that he had a working alternator for the 5-Ton. He knew someone that had FOUR of them, not far from the site!
I pulled some cash out and met up with him, we swapped the pulley and soldered on the sender wire. My buddy and I crossed our fingers as we mounted it into the truck, as soon as we started it up we found 29 volts coming out! The rest of the trip went uneventful and smoothly, everything is working on the only exception being the personnel heater blower.
Major kudos to Evil Dr. Porkchop and his family. If it wasn't for their kindness, the truck would still be up in Vermont with a dead alternator.
Also, thanks to many members here who provided information on what to bring and what to do for a successful recovery.
Bonte
Just wanted to share a picture of the beast and a quick story about how a forum member saved my entire weekend. Attached is a pic of the 1986 M934A1 Expansible Van shortly after its long trip from Vermont to Maryland! The GL pictures don't do it justice. I'll share more pics when I can.
When I arrived at the site, the GL site contact already had the truck running and ready for us to load out. We did a check of some of the fluids and proceeded to take it off of the base to take a look at it further. Unfortunately, we quickly diagnosed a bad alternator!
My buddy and I thought of ways we could save the weekend and not have to store the truck up in Vermont, we even debated stopping routinely to charge the batteries off of my car and believe it or not, we even tossed around the idea of picking up a 24V charger and a generator and finding a place to strap it to on the truck.
Then I recalled a PM I received from Evil Dr. Porkchop offering help if I needed it. I gave him a call on the very slight chance that he had a working alternator for the 5-Ton. He knew someone that had FOUR of them, not far from the site!
I pulled some cash out and met up with him, we swapped the pulley and soldered on the sender wire. My buddy and I crossed our fingers as we mounted it into the truck, as soon as we started it up we found 29 volts coming out! The rest of the trip went uneventful and smoothly, everything is working on the only exception being the personnel heater blower.
Major kudos to Evil Dr. Porkchop and his family. If it wasn't for their kindness, the truck would still be up in Vermont with a dead alternator.
Also, thanks to many members here who provided information on what to bring and what to do for a successful recovery.
Bonte
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