The truck came monday and what I thought was a crack in the engine front housing ended up being some grease and dirt. Checked all of the fluids and put some fresh batteries. It started for a second and died. Tried a couple more times and same thing. Looked in the fuel tank and it was almost empty. By then it was almost dark so I didn't get a chance to do anything else until today.
Put some fuel in and pump the primer until it was firm and she fired right up. Engine and trans seems to work as expected no major issues.
I did find that the parking brakes are not working. I think the valve in the cab may be bad. When air pressure drop the spring brakes engage and hold strong. I also noticed that the brake pedal is not fully returning causing the brakes to stay partly engaged (can't find anything about that in the TM's). The return spring is there and looks fine. I'm not sure if its the pivot pin or something in the valve.
Also, the air/hydraulic system for cab tilt etc. is inoperable. Need to look at the TM for troubleshooting that.
Anyone have any insight on the brake issues?
Other than that I am happy with the truck. All of the troop seats and rails were there which didn't appear that way in the GP pictures.
I need a ladder, new head lights (hooked up the batteries wrong the first time), and a few other minor things.
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