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Finally I think I have the picture thing figured out but the pictures are small. I'll have to work on that. This is my 1970 Kaiser Jeep M813 that I got on a GSA sale. The truck was in great shape with practically new tires and a full tank of diesel. One tail light bulb had to be replaced to make everything work. I was surprized I got it for $4250.00 but I think I know why and this is the rest of the story.
We arrived to pick it up with batterys, fuel, tools and a trailer just in case. As we were installing the batterys a GSA employee came out and told us she would not start, several people had tried and failed. Upon inspection I found out the screw that clamps the emergency furl shut off cable was loose. It would shut down the engine but when pushed in it jus slide through the eye. I moved it by hand and she fired right up and ran great. A couple of tires were low and the GSA guy told us to pull up to the warehouse where they had an air hose. As we pulled up to the wall the truck shut down on its on. While bleeding the system by putting air pressure in the tank to blow fuel through the lines we dicovered a dirt dauber had plugged the tank vent tube. My buddy was on the fender tighting fuel lines as I kept air pressure in the tank. The GSA man said he would try to start it for us. It started and shut down again. I guess the GSA man thought the hand throttle control was a choke as he pulled it all the way out and tried again. It fired up and assumed full engine speed immediatley. This scared the GSA man who had the trans in low and his foot on the clutch. He dumped the clutch which caused the beast to rear straight up over the eight inch cinder block we had chocking the front wheel, pitched my buddy high into the air and onto the pavement, ane proceeded through the warehouse wall. He got it stopped just before the windshield hit the wall. We thought we were in big trouble but everyone there thought it was funny. As we were inspecting the truck after backing in out of the wall a prisoner on cleanup detail approached headed into the building. He stopped some distance away said "You got that SOB chained. it got the devil in it". There was no damage to the truck but considerable damage to the wall. Needless to say we got the truck loaded as quickly as possible and got the he!! out of there before someone with importance showed up. We have been back to this site several times since and you can clearly see where the five ton truck made a new door to the building.
We arrived to pick it up with batterys, fuel, tools and a trailer just in case. As we were installing the batterys a GSA employee came out and told us she would not start, several people had tried and failed. Upon inspection I found out the screw that clamps the emergency furl shut off cable was loose. It would shut down the engine but when pushed in it jus slide through the eye. I moved it by hand and she fired right up and ran great. A couple of tires were low and the GSA guy told us to pull up to the warehouse where they had an air hose. As we pulled up to the wall the truck shut down on its on. While bleeding the system by putting air pressure in the tank to blow fuel through the lines we dicovered a dirt dauber had plugged the tank vent tube. My buddy was on the fender tighting fuel lines as I kept air pressure in the tank. The GSA man said he would try to start it for us. It started and shut down again. I guess the GSA man thought the hand throttle control was a choke as he pulled it all the way out and tried again. It fired up and assumed full engine speed immediatley. This scared the GSA man who had the trans in low and his foot on the clutch. He dumped the clutch which caused the beast to rear straight up over the eight inch cinder block we had chocking the front wheel, pitched my buddy high into the air and onto the pavement, ane proceeded through the warehouse wall. He got it stopped just before the windshield hit the wall. We thought we were in big trouble but everyone there thought it was funny. As we were inspecting the truck after backing in out of the wall a prisoner on cleanup detail approached headed into the building. He stopped some distance away said "You got that SOB chained. it got the devil in it". There was no damage to the truck but considerable damage to the wall. Needless to say we got the truck loaded as quickly as possible and got the he!! out of there before someone with importance showed up. We have been back to this site several times since and you can clearly see where the five ton truck made a new door to the building.
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