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I went yesterday to try to pick up my first Deuce. We got to the GL lot around 1000 with a plan to charge the batteries one at a time from my 1/2 ton while I did a good preflight of the truck.
All was going well, following the pickup sticky plan until it came time to bleed the fuel filters. I never got any fuel to come out and the youngster detailed to keep an eye on us during the pickup was getting nervous as they don't allow ANY wrenching on the lot and the bossman was working out on the lot too. We decided to go ahead and give the starter a tryeven with no sign of fuel yet....but nothing hapened except that the low air buzzer quit while the starter button was depressed. While I am at the computer running through the trouble shooting chapter of the TM-20, bossman comes over and reminds us NO wrenching on the lot but does add that most of these will start with a push. Our minder was now getting really nervous since bossman himself had warned us and we were still tinkering with the truck. As we are formulating our plan on how to pull start the truck,(since we couldn't get the starter to turn) bossman comes back but this time he has one of his other men with him and a huge forklift. With very few words he gets in the truck, directs the forklift behind it and off they go in my truck to get her started. 50 yards later she's at a rough idle and he's handing her back to me.
Bossman says 'you guys look like active duty and we take care of our soldiers out here.' Neither my partner nor I corrected him on the fact that we are Marines and not soldiers. We were just happy to have a running truck.
Paperwork complete we were off for the 200 mile return leg to Fort Worth. The fuel guage was inop and our tap test led us to believe that she was near empty so we headed off to the nearest fuel station. After pumping about $1.00 worth of fuel the tank showed full. This convinced me that the tap test had indicated a full tank not an empty one. After pull starting her again (still no starter) we went off again. She ran OK for a few miles and then quit on the highway. After some head scratching my partner pulled the little filter cup out of the fuel tank and we realized that she was out of fuel. The filter cup was so gummed up that when I went to put fuel in it earlier it had immediatly filled itself and showed uninformed me that the tank was full. So after putting 5 Gals of fresh diesel in her she again pull starts easily and we're off again. This time we roll into the next fuel stop and drop $125 into her tank and now she is really starting to come alive.
Except for driving through the heart of Dallas at 1700 on a Fri the rest of the trip went well with the truck pulling well up through redline to 2800rpm and almost 60 mph on flat terrain.13 hours later we were in the chocks at her new home after a 400 mile round trip recovery.
Thanks to my partner Mike for pointing out the forrest to me a couple times when I was focused on the trees and to Bossman and his partner (no names in case they weren't supposed to be helping) for getting old girl running.
Only one pic as we were busy trying to keep the mission on track.
All was going well, following the pickup sticky plan until it came time to bleed the fuel filters. I never got any fuel to come out and the youngster detailed to keep an eye on us during the pickup was getting nervous as they don't allow ANY wrenching on the lot and the bossman was working out on the lot too. We decided to go ahead and give the starter a tryeven with no sign of fuel yet....but nothing hapened except that the low air buzzer quit while the starter button was depressed. While I am at the computer running through the trouble shooting chapter of the TM-20, bossman comes over and reminds us NO wrenching on the lot but does add that most of these will start with a push. Our minder was now getting really nervous since bossman himself had warned us and we were still tinkering with the truck. As we are formulating our plan on how to pull start the truck,(since we couldn't get the starter to turn) bossman comes back but this time he has one of his other men with him and a huge forklift. With very few words he gets in the truck, directs the forklift behind it and off they go in my truck to get her started. 50 yards later she's at a rough idle and he's handing her back to me.
Bossman says 'you guys look like active duty and we take care of our soldiers out here.' Neither my partner nor I corrected him on the fact that we are Marines and not soldiers. We were just happy to have a running truck.
Paperwork complete we were off for the 200 mile return leg to Fort Worth. The fuel guage was inop and our tap test led us to believe that she was near empty so we headed off to the nearest fuel station. After pumping about $1.00 worth of fuel the tank showed full. This convinced me that the tap test had indicated a full tank not an empty one. After pull starting her again (still no starter) we went off again. She ran OK for a few miles and then quit on the highway. After some head scratching my partner pulled the little filter cup out of the fuel tank and we realized that she was out of fuel. The filter cup was so gummed up that when I went to put fuel in it earlier it had immediatly filled itself and showed uninformed me that the tank was full. So after putting 5 Gals of fresh diesel in her she again pull starts easily and we're off again. This time we roll into the next fuel stop and drop $125 into her tank and now she is really starting to come alive.
Except for driving through the heart of Dallas at 1700 on a Fri the rest of the trip went well with the truck pulling well up through redline to 2800rpm and almost 60 mph on flat terrain.13 hours later we were in the chocks at her new home after a 400 mile round trip recovery.
Thanks to my partner Mike for pointing out the forrest to me a couple times when I was focused on the trees and to Bossman and his partner (no names in case they weren't supposed to be helping) for getting old girl running.
Only one pic as we were busy trying to keep the mission on track.
