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Ok here it goes,
I won the auction from GL on a M35a2 wo/w. I was altered at the time of my bid. I never thought I would win. I was watching the action and someone got right to my max bid but no joy, it was mine after waiting about 30 minutes on overtime from GL. What did I get myself into? How do I explain it to my wife? I never went to look at it before my bid. What do I do now? Well this was not my first tango with GL so that went easy enough. Got all the paperwork through the first time and it was rather quick in GL giving me the "Paid in Full Invoice" After scheduling the pick up I had to tell the wife. Her question to me was how did I pay for it? I told her the method that was on file at GL. She asked what method was that? Ok, now I'm in for it I thought. It was her Credit Card. After telling her that, she said when do we pick up her truck?
Ok, that was behind me, now for getting together everything I might need for the recovery. In the auction it was stated "starts and runs" from GL. I was going to try to drive it back, but after looking at the posts on this site, I was more than crapping my pants over this decision. "Starts and Runs" don't mean nothing according to the posts. So, I tried to get every thing I might need. All fluids and other supplies like jumper cables and my Batteries out of the M1009. To say the least, the bed of my wife's ram was full. The kids must go she said. Who was I to argue. It was her truck we were getting. The trip there was no event. The GL rep at the site informed me that there could be a good possibility that it would not start and the batteries might be dead. First thing I did was check all fluids and filters then the belts and tire pressure. All of the tires were low. I turned the master switch on and put it in neutral with the clutch in and pushed the start button. It fired right up, after the low air buzzer went off, I pulled it out of formation to air up the tires and to let it warm up. After that off I went. Going 55mph on today’s highways was something I'm not use to, but that is the max speed a M35a2 should go. I was having a hard time with the fuel gauge as it was all over the place. When a DUECE runs out of fuel it runs out without warning, good thing I had the forethought to bring a fuel can with diesel. I made it most of the way with my daughter buy my side with the wife following me in her ram. The last 20 miles was gut wrenching do the snow storm I rain into that was socking it to Denver on Tuesday night. The last 20 miles took me 1 1/2 hours to do. I had to stop several times to clear the window of snow build up on the highway and streets. Got m0st of the way home and finally got stuck on a side street 2 blocks from my house. A neighbor was kind enough to provide some salt to get me going again. I would like to thank everyone here for all the info I was able digest.
Buy the way this was not my first time driving a deuce. I had one in the army but that was a long time ago.
I won the auction from GL on a M35a2 wo/w. I was altered at the time of my bid. I never thought I would win. I was watching the action and someone got right to my max bid but no joy, it was mine after waiting about 30 minutes on overtime from GL. What did I get myself into? How do I explain it to my wife? I never went to look at it before my bid. What do I do now? Well this was not my first tango with GL so that went easy enough. Got all the paperwork through the first time and it was rather quick in GL giving me the "Paid in Full Invoice" After scheduling the pick up I had to tell the wife. Her question to me was how did I pay for it? I told her the method that was on file at GL. She asked what method was that? Ok, now I'm in for it I thought. It was her Credit Card. After telling her that, she said when do we pick up her truck?
Ok, that was behind me, now for getting together everything I might need for the recovery. In the auction it was stated "starts and runs" from GL. I was going to try to drive it back, but after looking at the posts on this site, I was more than crapping my pants over this decision. "Starts and Runs" don't mean nothing according to the posts. So, I tried to get every thing I might need. All fluids and other supplies like jumper cables and my Batteries out of the M1009. To say the least, the bed of my wife's ram was full. The kids must go she said. Who was I to argue. It was her truck we were getting. The trip there was no event. The GL rep at the site informed me that there could be a good possibility that it would not start and the batteries might be dead. First thing I did was check all fluids and filters then the belts and tire pressure. All of the tires were low. I turned the master switch on and put it in neutral with the clutch in and pushed the start button. It fired right up, after the low air buzzer went off, I pulled it out of formation to air up the tires and to let it warm up. After that off I went. Going 55mph on today’s highways was something I'm not use to, but that is the max speed a M35a2 should go. I was having a hard time with the fuel gauge as it was all over the place. When a DUECE runs out of fuel it runs out without warning, good thing I had the forethought to bring a fuel can with diesel. I made it most of the way with my daughter buy my side with the wife following me in her ram. The last 20 miles was gut wrenching do the snow storm I rain into that was socking it to Denver on Tuesday night. The last 20 miles took me 1 1/2 hours to do. I had to stop several times to clear the window of snow build up on the highway and streets. Got m0st of the way home and finally got stuck on a side street 2 blocks from my house. A neighbor was kind enough to provide some salt to get me going again. I would like to thank everyone here for all the info I was able digest.
Buy the way this was not my first time driving a deuce. I had one in the army but that was a long time ago.
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those box seats arent that bad when you need a little extra room between the seat and the steering wheel such as myself. Nice recovery.
