Bidders Beware: GL is draining all fluids on trucks

[SETOYOTA]

Clint you bettter add a large assortment of drain plugs to your kit. You can bring all the fluids you want but with no plugs in the truck you won't be going very far. This is not my first Rodeo.

 

[jwaller]

Unit's turning in equipment are suposed to drain all fluids before turn in. EPA crap.

 

[clinto]

Clint you bettter add a large assortment of drain plugs to your kit. You can bring all the fluids you want but with no plugs in the truck you won't be going very far. This is not my first Rodeo.

Oh, my comments weren't directed at you, Chuck. I've seen your cowboy hat, I know this isn't your first rodeo

My comments were more aimed at some of the younger and more inexperienced members of our community.

The drain plugs are a good idea and I admit, I've never taken spares with me on a recovery trip. You learn something new every time-my last trip taught me to take bolt cutters.

 

[niferous]

I guess I'll chime in and state that my M1009 and my MEP-002 both had fluids in them. In fact my M1009 had a serious transmission leak when I picked it up and the DRMO guy at Red Stone tried to start it and slung transmission fluid on the ground. Being in the Army before I just cringed at wondering if we were going to have to clean that up. He just said "Ahh don't worry about it. This yard glows at night from all the stuff on the ground." I don't know about glowing but from the looks of it I would be that their yard gets pretty slick when it rains.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

January 29th, 2010.

At least you gentlemen have not met up with the practice of thermite grenading the engines (yet). Back in the 1960's Weirton Steel Company bought a bunch of Alco S-2/S-4 switchers from the U.S.Army Transportation Corps, the engines were sold as scrap (intact) when the Weirton shop crews examined them on base. When the locomotives arrived in Weirton by rail later, the pinions had been pulled off the traction motors and the traction motors (4 per unit), generator (1 per unit) and the prime mover had been thermite grenaded by the Army before shipment, rendering the locomotives parts and scrap units.
Needless to say, Weirton bought no more locomotives from Uncle Sam. Thermite grenades can just about reduce anything to scrap......

Count yourselves lucky that only the fluids have been drained on these units.

Cheers,

Kyle F. McGrogan

 

[swbradley1]

I am pretty sure that no vehicles are drained of anything at WPAFB. If I were buying one out there I'd just call ahead and see if it is a runner and ready to go. Good to know people.



I'd be a little worried about picking one up at another base though.

sw

 

[croftonaviation]

I've picked up two deuces at Ft. Campbell in the last several months, one for me and one for another guy here on the site. Both were full of fluids and fuel. Both trucks came from National Guard units in TN. One was a A2 and one an A3.

 

[SETOYOTA]

No offense Clint and yes I do have a mity fine cowbot hat...... the on site GL employe indicated the truck wold run with a boost verfired by lot number. The worst thing is the missing plugs. I'm going to a scrape yard today to hope fully score a few.

 

[Carl_in_NH]

This does seem to vary widely. I bought a genset at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that was drained of oil - but stored properly and fogged, with batteries removed and dry fuel system. Bought a deuce from Fort Drum that had fresh oil, coolant, gear lube, and good batteries, and a third of a tank of usable fuel (and started right up without a jump). Bought a genset from Fort Drum that had older oil, no batteries, and a drained fuel system.

Each and every time, it's different.

 

[cundupa]

I wish they WOULD have drained the fuel out of the M817 I got. I think it was as old as the truck!

 

[niferous]

I wish they WOULD have drained the fuel out of the M817 I got. I think it was as old as the truck!

Yup. I've heard of guys not checking there fuel and running come gummed up stuff through there trucks. What might have been a runner got a lot of maintenance added due to some old nasty JP-8.

 

[emmado22]

JP-8 is a GREAT fuel, and fuel system cleaner. I wish I could get a few tankfuls to run thru my trucks.

 

[niferous]

JP-8 is a GREAT fuel, and fuel system cleaner. I wish I could get a few tankfuls to run thru my trucks.

Not when it's been sitting in a tank for 2 years with no attention paid to it at all.

 

[Westex]

I bought 2 trucks from GL in Texas last year around July and they were both fully topped off with fluids.

 

[BKubu]

Maybe people are lucky that GL will not help load. Can you imagine the catastrophy if GL started the truck without lubes?!?! Come to think of it, they may have done so when they noted that the truck ran! I have seen guys start trucks and floor the pedal to get them to run smoothly...who knows what they may do!

 

[Alredneck]

I have ran into this in some cases but the trucks were marked in grease pencil drained. It may have been the radiator or the engine or everything. No since taking a risk check everything.

 

[BKubu]

Yup. I've heard of guys not checking there fuel and running come gummed up stuff through there trucks. What might have been a runner got a lot of maintenance added due to some old nasty JP-8.

Checking of fuel levels is not a safety issue. Stay around this site long enough and you will hear about guys driving trucks home hundreds of miles only to hit the list after they get home to inquire about how to check their brake fluid. I also remember a guy who only found out he didn't have brakes because he couldn't stop at a light outside of the base. You REALLY can't make this stuff up!

 

[Tanner]

Oh, my comments weren't directed at you, Chuck. I've seen your cowboy hat, I know this isn't your first rodeo

My comments were more aimed at some of the younger and more inexperienced members of our community.

The drain plugs are a good idea and I admit, I've never taken spares with me on a recovery trip. You learn something new every time-my last trip taught me to take bolt cutters.

So Clinto - you use bolt cutters to remove batteries from adjacent trucks?
Now why didn't I think of that?

'Tanner'

 

[Crash_AF]

The Air Force required all non-operational equipment turned in to DRMO to be drained and purged of fluids at least as of 2004. If it was operational and driven into the yard, it did not have to be drained. And yes, it is EPA driving the bus on these regulations.

We did NOT have to wash out an engine or components to get the residue out, only drain the sumps.

Later,
Joe

 

[SETOYOTA]

i spoke to a member of the National Guard unit who turned the trucks in. He said nothing was wrong with the vehicles they were required to drain them. He stated this was to have ben done all along but now its bieng inforced. Who knows?

For the record I have picked up over 10 trucks and none have been drained. The missing drain plugs is what gets my goat.