ClarkeF
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I picked up the 2011 Rebuild M923A2 I won earlier in the month from GL's Truck Center in New Castle Delaware last week. The truck looked complete, was driven to the lot, started and ran in the video and had no flats. I took the chance on bidding sight unseen and it paid off.
Gl was great to deal with there - they accommodated my request to pick up with just two days notice. I called the first time the Friday after a snow storm and the lot was closed. My insurance company had insured my Deuce - so he wrote me a commercial policy for non-commercial use for the 5-ton. Made arrangements with a friend (Thanks Joe!) with experience on the M923 to provide chase. Wednesday we loaded up his car with fluids, filters, belt, and tools. It was raining when we got there and then thunder started! One of the GL guys was stuck on the lot taking shelter from the storm and lightning. Once the thunderstorm and lightning passed, the GL team headed out into the maze to find my truck. I was amazed at the number of M900 series trucks they have on the lot there. Literally hundreds. A few trailers and quite a few civilian semi tractors too. Anyway, they disappeared in the lot to bring the truck out and eventually it came around the corner running on two flats.
The GL lady Lisa pulled it up to where we were standing and we both started to look it over. for the first time in person. It's clean! Nice paint, no rust, no damage, cargo cover, troop seats, bows, spare... No extras in the boxes, battery is still under the seat, and best of all - 3/4 a tank of fuel! The GL lady commented that it started right up without a jump.
We hit the CTIS runflat button and oh so slowly the tires that were low started to inflate: L/F and R/R. in looking over the two wheels with flats, air was escaping through the holes in the wheel halves where the schrader value sticks through to the inside. I'm guessing I need to split the wheels and put new o-rings in? Sounds like a leak at the CTIS manifold(?) in the cab which I'll need to track down - but it still ran and pressurized - if very slowly. I added my clip on schraeder hooked to the emergency glad-hands and tried to help it along - didn't seem to go any faster. While I was standing there in the rain Joe took off with the GL guy to preview a couple of trucks he was interested in.
When Joe got back we opened the hood and check fluids - the engine dipstick was dry when I pulled it! I ran back to the cab to check the oil pressure gauge and it was reading 30psi. Killed the engine and it dropped to 0. Put all three gallons I brought with me into the truck and still no reading on the dip stick. Must have been very little oil in the truck. checked all the lights and signals - everything worked! Decided to take my chances on the rest given the ice, snow and rain and cautiously testing the brakes in the lot we pulled out. Air wipers take a bit of getting used to, but I think I like the chuff and huff as they operate...
I'm not sure how I missed that overspeed light in reading the Dash 10, but I did. it started to flicker around 55 - just as soon as the tranny shifter into 5th. I pulled over thinking low tranny pressure (someone had labeled the tranny oil temp gauge with a label - right next to the idiot light light. I hopped out and was focused on tranny level's - apparently Joe asked me if it was the overspeed light but I was focused on tranny and didn't hear him. Tranny was a little low - added three quarts of Dex-III from the case I brought with me. Back on the road and **** if that light came on again - right at 55... "Nursed" it home 20 miles at 54mhp doing my darndest to keep the light off.
The CTIS went solid on highway after a while - until the leak caught up at which point the CTIS highway light would flash and keep things topped off - until it leaked down enough. It was holding 70PSI so I wasn't worried about the 7 miles I had at highway speeds..
Got home, pointed the truck at the 10" of snow in my back yard, engaged the front-axle and drove it up the hill and around behind the house where he's currently parked. The rear tire was no longer leaking when we parked it. Front drivers tire still does leak. Maybe I need to drive it some more before I try and replace the seal?
I have an older hard top on it's way, the rest of the filters, a couple o-rings for the wheels and will go through and service/check everything when it warms up a bit while I wait for the SF97 to come in.
Very excited about my new truck!
Gl was great to deal with there - they accommodated my request to pick up with just two days notice. I called the first time the Friday after a snow storm and the lot was closed. My insurance company had insured my Deuce - so he wrote me a commercial policy for non-commercial use for the 5-ton. Made arrangements with a friend (Thanks Joe!) with experience on the M923 to provide chase. Wednesday we loaded up his car with fluids, filters, belt, and tools. It was raining when we got there and then thunder started! One of the GL guys was stuck on the lot taking shelter from the storm and lightning. Once the thunderstorm and lightning passed, the GL team headed out into the maze to find my truck. I was amazed at the number of M900 series trucks they have on the lot there. Literally hundreds. A few trailers and quite a few civilian semi tractors too. Anyway, they disappeared in the lot to bring the truck out and eventually it came around the corner running on two flats.
The GL lady Lisa pulled it up to where we were standing and we both started to look it over. for the first time in person. It's clean! Nice paint, no rust, no damage, cargo cover, troop seats, bows, spare... No extras in the boxes, battery is still under the seat, and best of all - 3/4 a tank of fuel! The GL lady commented that it started right up without a jump.
We hit the CTIS runflat button and oh so slowly the tires that were low started to inflate: L/F and R/R. in looking over the two wheels with flats, air was escaping through the holes in the wheel halves where the schrader value sticks through to the inside. I'm guessing I need to split the wheels and put new o-rings in? Sounds like a leak at the CTIS manifold(?) in the cab which I'll need to track down - but it still ran and pressurized - if very slowly. I added my clip on schraeder hooked to the emergency glad-hands and tried to help it along - didn't seem to go any faster. While I was standing there in the rain Joe took off with the GL guy to preview a couple of trucks he was interested in.
When Joe got back we opened the hood and check fluids - the engine dipstick was dry when I pulled it! I ran back to the cab to check the oil pressure gauge and it was reading 30psi. Killed the engine and it dropped to 0. Put all three gallons I brought with me into the truck and still no reading on the dip stick. Must have been very little oil in the truck. checked all the lights and signals - everything worked! Decided to take my chances on the rest given the ice, snow and rain and cautiously testing the brakes in the lot we pulled out. Air wipers take a bit of getting used to, but I think I like the chuff and huff as they operate...
I'm not sure how I missed that overspeed light in reading the Dash 10, but I did. it started to flicker around 55 - just as soon as the tranny shifter into 5th. I pulled over thinking low tranny pressure (someone had labeled the tranny oil temp gauge with a label - right next to the idiot light light. I hopped out and was focused on tranny level's - apparently Joe asked me if it was the overspeed light but I was focused on tranny and didn't hear him. Tranny was a little low - added three quarts of Dex-III from the case I brought with me. Back on the road and **** if that light came on again - right at 55... "Nursed" it home 20 miles at 54mhp doing my darndest to keep the light off.
The CTIS went solid on highway after a while - until the leak caught up at which point the CTIS highway light would flash and keep things topped off - until it leaked down enough. It was holding 70PSI so I wasn't worried about the 7 miles I had at highway speeds..Got home, pointed the truck at the 10" of snow in my back yard, engaged the front-axle and drove it up the hill and around behind the house where he's currently parked. The rear tire was no longer leaking when we parked it. Front drivers tire still does leak. Maybe I need to drive it some more before I try and replace the seal?
I have an older hard top on it's way, the rest of the filters, a couple o-rings for the wheels and will go through and service/check everything when it warms up a bit while I wait for the SF97 to come in.
Very excited about my new truck!
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