71DeuceAK
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Alright, I tried the search for this but didn't have any luck; my apologies if there already multiple similar threads out there that are along the same lines as this.
I'm looking into saving an M939 from a local junk yard. I'm going to look at it in detail on Friday or Monday hopefully but in the meantime I've been reading threads and researching things I need to know as despite years of lurking here this would be my first actual acquisition; despite reading up on them daily for 3 years now and having specs memorized and knowing them well from years of looking at every part of them in pictures I still have hardly any in-person experience; I've sat in them a few times and ridden in one exactly once.
Nevertheless, when/if I get it, and have it on a storage lot and the temperatures finally warm up (April/May) and I start looking at maybe trying to go over there and see if it'll run (assuming no major parts missing, there's another thread of mine on all the possible issues I already have going) any special recommendations for starting one of these for, I assume, the first time in years?
A friend who knows the particular salvage yard this is at and who has repaired his car there many times told me it didn't used to be there last summer he doesn't think, so it may have driven there on its own and still be complete; it's still in the front parking lot, not the back forty yet.
Sooo...What should I consider besides a couple Group 31 batteries and some starting fluid and bleeding air at injector lines and maybe pulling the mushroom cap and having someone standing by to snuff it out in the event of an engine runaway scenario? That and dry rotted rubber fuel lines and bad fuel and rust and other "sitting" issues that happen with any vehicle...
Of course I've read plenty of horror stories of motors dropping liners, tires blowing out, etc but I'm talking trying to make it make smoke and noise for the first time (presumably, assuming the worst) in years.
Thanks! If I get this thing I'm going to have LOTS of questions and be trying not to crash the site's servers with my heavy use of the search function...You guys have already helped me tremendously over the years.
I'm looking into saving an M939 from a local junk yard. I'm going to look at it in detail on Friday or Monday hopefully but in the meantime I've been reading threads and researching things I need to know as despite years of lurking here this would be my first actual acquisition; despite reading up on them daily for 3 years now and having specs memorized and knowing them well from years of looking at every part of them in pictures I still have hardly any in-person experience; I've sat in them a few times and ridden in one exactly once.
Nevertheless, when/if I get it, and have it on a storage lot and the temperatures finally warm up (April/May) and I start looking at maybe trying to go over there and see if it'll run (assuming no major parts missing, there's another thread of mine on all the possible issues I already have going) any special recommendations for starting one of these for, I assume, the first time in years?
A friend who knows the particular salvage yard this is at and who has repaired his car there many times told me it didn't used to be there last summer he doesn't think, so it may have driven there on its own and still be complete; it's still in the front parking lot, not the back forty yet.
Sooo...What should I consider besides a couple Group 31 batteries and some starting fluid and bleeding air at injector lines and maybe pulling the mushroom cap and having someone standing by to snuff it out in the event of an engine runaway scenario? That and dry rotted rubber fuel lines and bad fuel and rust and other "sitting" issues that happen with any vehicle...
Of course I've read plenty of horror stories of motors dropping liners, tires blowing out, etc but I'm talking trying to make it make smoke and noise for the first time (presumably, assuming the worst) in years.
Thanks! If I get this thing I'm going to have LOTS of questions and be trying not to crash the site's servers with my heavy use of the search function...You guys have already helped me tremendously over the years.