Croatan_Kid
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Well a little while back, I had told yall I bought an M1008 from GL. Turns out, I was wrong. It's an M1028! Even better! I'll relive the story of its' rescue for yall, it went like this here.....
We (dad and myself) got up and met a friend of ours at 7;30 outside the front gate of Cherry Point. Went and got his pass to get the F-550 on the base (I know, a FORD). Drove on over to DRMO and went in to talk to the GL man. My dad signed the paper and we proceded to follow him to where the truck was sitting. It was love at first site! I hopped in it and he handed me the key and said, "Give it a try!". I turned the key forward and the dash lights came on, I waited for the WAIT TO START light to cut off and it rolled over once and very, very slowly. So I grabbed the handy dadny multi-meter and tested the batteries. Front one was at 12.20, the rear one was 2.3. So, naturally I swapped out the rear batt with one of the two I had brought along for just such a case. I checked the oil and other fluids, ginned it over, and low and behold it fired to life! You wanna talk about a grin! So I drove it up on the trailer and brought it to the house, gave my buddy 40 bucks, and went and drove it around some. After some inspection this afternoon I found that most things works. Lights, blinkers, wipers, blower motor, etc. Tires are in good shape, needs a little bit of trans fluid, 4wd works good, trans shifts fine, the only real thing that was wrong is the radiator leaks around the fill neck and you can see where an attempt to repair it was made. Needless to say it didn't work.
I'm going to go change the oil and take a look underneath it and see if I can get the glow plug relay to kick back on. I'll take pics and post them later this afternoon.
We (dad and myself) got up and met a friend of ours at 7;30 outside the front gate of Cherry Point. Went and got his pass to get the F-550 on the base (I know, a FORD). Drove on over to DRMO and went in to talk to the GL man. My dad signed the paper and we proceded to follow him to where the truck was sitting. It was love at first site! I hopped in it and he handed me the key and said, "Give it a try!". I turned the key forward and the dash lights came on, I waited for the WAIT TO START light to cut off and it rolled over once and very, very slowly. So I grabbed the handy dadny multi-meter and tested the batteries. Front one was at 12.20, the rear one was 2.3. So, naturally I swapped out the rear batt with one of the two I had brought along for just such a case. I checked the oil and other fluids, ginned it over, and low and behold it fired to life! You wanna talk about a grin! So I drove it up on the trailer and brought it to the house, gave my buddy 40 bucks, and went and drove it around some. After some inspection this afternoon I found that most things works. Lights, blinkers, wipers, blower motor, etc. Tires are in good shape, needs a little bit of trans fluid, 4wd works good, trans shifts fine, the only real thing that was wrong is the radiator leaks around the fill neck and you can see where an attempt to repair it was made. Needless to say it didn't work.
I'm going to go change the oil and take a look underneath it and see if I can get the glow plug relay to kick back on. I'll take pics and post them later this afternoon.