Today was reinstall day with Floridianson for the hydraulic head & associated parts on the '85 Deuce. We got everything back together with no problems in a couple of hours & went to crank the old girl. She would spin over well, but would not fire, even with ether..
The filters were changed & bled; the FDC was bypassed & a new 1/2" fuel line was installed to replace the old one. After the last cranking session, a clamp with two connecting terminals dropped a puddle of lead off the connection (none off the terminal). When that was repaired & the battery charged a bit more again, one more cranking session was attempted while bleeding the lines. That still resulted in a no start situation. That was it for the day as I have no slave cables & the batteries were getting low on charge. I will attempt again tomorrow with a hot set of batteries to see if that makes any difference or not. This truck has not run for at least 18 months, so there may be an issue with sitting up too long, that & it was a non runner out of the Air Force & had been worked on by their mechanics for a while.