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Had been looking for some time for an M813 with winch. Not much luck and was always behind another buyer it seemed. Finally found one in decent shape and an excellent price but on the other side of the US from me. The rig was located near Detroit. I know that is a long ways away but I bought it anyway. So I flew out and picked it up.
The previous owner Alex co-runs D&D Gunsmiths (The second job wish of many I would think here on SS
).
Trip first to a gas station for the trip brought to my attention that the heater core of the cab heater had a pinhole leak or something to the effect. Lucky the motor hadn't warmed up too much so I quickly bypassed the heater with the already existing tubing. Topped off the fluid and was back in business. Could not get any of the drivers side tires to take air and they were all at about 38ish PSI. Since the rig was new to me I plotted my first stop with no highway miles. Glad I did as the tires needed some time to re-round out from the time sitting. At first 25 was ruff, then 30 then 40 then 50 /51 was max without serious vibration.
On the way to this first stop the breaks began to say pumped and locked ON. Wasn't quite sure what was causing it so I looked up here on SS and found a few possible solutions. At 2:30 AM in a Walgrens back parking lot I backed the peddle rod just a bit out of the master cylinder just to make sure the piston was retracting all the way and then bleed some brake fluid out of each wheel cylinder. This released the bind on the breaks for the moment. This "fix"did the trick but made me drive from here on the rest of the journey with caution to not use the breaks unless needed. Drove slow to all stops so I would omit using the breaks to keep this issue from becoming a full problem out on the road. Had an amazing drive along the Lake Erie and a stop by the Kirtland Temple which I had never had the chance to see.
Then stopped by Sam Winer Motors Inc in AKRON OH,to grab a rebuilt Garwood 20k winch with the Level wind I bought for the rig off EBAY. Also bought from him a new PTO with some gaskets. While there Robert the son of the original owner of the place was nice enough to let me have the linkage off one of his parts trucks, but after spending significant time trying to remove it, I had to give up as with the limited tools I traveled with I could not remove the dog house as the bolts were previously stripped and very rusted. Giving up on getting such a nice hand out I reluctantly set off again. If anyone is in that area and wanted to do an immeasurable favor and finish that job for me I would be deeply grateful. I would pay you for your kindness. If I had a battery powered grinder that could have taken the rest of the cover bolts off I would have been in business. The rest is 80% ish detached. Not wanting to take some of the parts and leave someone a piecemeal of items I left everything there.
After leaving Ohio I set off to see a fellow 5 TON owner Andy Lang who had tipped me off on the rig being available to say thanks in person! Andy has an M930A2Dump Truck running on 14.00s. After a great but short stay I headed off again. Sopped by the Carthage Jail for and 1.5 to charge my phone and take a tour. Passed the Nauvoo Temple and headed over the Greatest river on EARTH and then off to more of the great planes.
Rain brought to my attention that there was actually no wiper on the blades of the windshild wipers. (AT night mind you.. rain... flat windshield...you get it?) At a Flying J I bought a 24" wiper and cut it in half and used my black tape to mount it to the original blade. This did the trick to keep me moving.
Caused myself a big issue when somehow (still dont know) turned on the intake heater and it stayed ON all nap long (and maybe was on the entire drive prior?) on Sunday morning. The 4 batteries were D.E.A.D! Like no life. No buzzer for the air no lights nada. So .. lucky for me in the prep to leave from Detroit I bought two new batteries to bring with me. I wired down from 4 to just the two there in the parking lot and fired up and set out again. Lucky, lucky, lucky.
All in all drove some 2300ish miles back home at 49-51 mph. Covered this from start at 9pm Friday night to arrival at 7:30am Monday. That left at 50 mph 46 minimum+ hours of driving of the total 82.5 hours. 1 hour of tour guide at the Jail at the hours of sleeping, about 1.5 hours of break troubleshooting, 1.5 hours of battery swapping (yea took a while to think what was going to be best to do) Some hanging out with Andy, two dinners at Flying Js some general checking here and there at fuel stops. the wiper rig and pulled over twice to catch a cat nap and 3 other times to just close and rest my eyes.
If I could do it over, I would have found some way to put antifreeze in the tires to help with the hop hop hopping. This one thing would have made the entire journey better. Motor did not use any oil, and the Dot 5 I had to periodically drain from the wheel cylinders was made available by Napa, Front seal on the front axle chunk is leaking a bit. Heater core needs some attention or replacement and the rig is awesome.
Now the rest of the fun begins.
The previous owner Alex co-runs D&D Gunsmiths (The second job wish of many I would think here on SS
).Trip first to a gas station for the trip brought to my attention that the heater core of the cab heater had a pinhole leak or something to the effect. Lucky the motor hadn't warmed up too much so I quickly bypassed the heater with the already existing tubing. Topped off the fluid and was back in business. Could not get any of the drivers side tires to take air and they were all at about 38ish PSI. Since the rig was new to me I plotted my first stop with no highway miles. Glad I did as the tires needed some time to re-round out from the time sitting. At first 25 was ruff, then 30 then 40 then 50 /51 was max without serious vibration.
On the way to this first stop the breaks began to say pumped and locked ON. Wasn't quite sure what was causing it so I looked up here on SS and found a few possible solutions. At 2:30 AM in a Walgrens back parking lot I backed the peddle rod just a bit out of the master cylinder just to make sure the piston was retracting all the way and then bleed some brake fluid out of each wheel cylinder. This released the bind on the breaks for the moment. This "fix"did the trick but made me drive from here on the rest of the journey with caution to not use the breaks unless needed. Drove slow to all stops so I would omit using the breaks to keep this issue from becoming a full problem out on the road. Had an amazing drive along the Lake Erie and a stop by the Kirtland Temple which I had never had the chance to see.
Then stopped by Sam Winer Motors Inc in AKRON OH,to grab a rebuilt Garwood 20k winch with the Level wind I bought for the rig off EBAY. Also bought from him a new PTO with some gaskets. While there Robert the son of the original owner of the place was nice enough to let me have the linkage off one of his parts trucks, but after spending significant time trying to remove it, I had to give up as with the limited tools I traveled with I could not remove the dog house as the bolts were previously stripped and very rusted. Giving up on getting such a nice hand out I reluctantly set off again. If anyone is in that area and wanted to do an immeasurable favor and finish that job for me I would be deeply grateful. I would pay you for your kindness. If I had a battery powered grinder that could have taken the rest of the cover bolts off I would have been in business. The rest is 80% ish detached. Not wanting to take some of the parts and leave someone a piecemeal of items I left everything there.
After leaving Ohio I set off to see a fellow 5 TON owner Andy Lang who had tipped me off on the rig being available to say thanks in person! Andy has an M930A2Dump Truck running on 14.00s. After a great but short stay I headed off again. Sopped by the Carthage Jail for and 1.5 to charge my phone and take a tour. Passed the Nauvoo Temple and headed over the Greatest river on EARTH and then off to more of the great planes.
Rain brought to my attention that there was actually no wiper on the blades of the windshild wipers. (AT night mind you.. rain... flat windshield...you get it?) At a Flying J I bought a 24" wiper and cut it in half and used my black tape to mount it to the original blade. This did the trick to keep me moving.
Caused myself a big issue when somehow (still dont know) turned on the intake heater and it stayed ON all nap long (and maybe was on the entire drive prior?) on Sunday morning. The 4 batteries were D.E.A.D! Like no life. No buzzer for the air no lights nada. So .. lucky for me in the prep to leave from Detroit I bought two new batteries to bring with me. I wired down from 4 to just the two there in the parking lot and fired up and set out again. Lucky, lucky, lucky.
All in all drove some 2300ish miles back home at 49-51 mph. Covered this from start at 9pm Friday night to arrival at 7:30am Monday. That left at 50 mph 46 minimum+ hours of driving of the total 82.5 hours. 1 hour of tour guide at the Jail at the hours of sleeping, about 1.5 hours of break troubleshooting, 1.5 hours of battery swapping (yea took a while to think what was going to be best to do) Some hanging out with Andy, two dinners at Flying Js some general checking here and there at fuel stops. the wiper rig and pulled over twice to catch a cat nap and 3 other times to just close and rest my eyes.
If I could do it over, I would have found some way to put antifreeze in the tires to help with the hop hop hopping. This one thing would have made the entire journey better. Motor did not use any oil, and the Dot 5 I had to periodically drain from the wheel cylinders was made available by Napa, Front seal on the front axle chunk is leaking a bit. Heater core needs some attention or replacement and the rig is awesome.
Now the rest of the fun begins.
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once in a while over text. Good guy.
