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Seems these little trucks are very common in the rest of the world(as right hand drive). Our government gets them as Left hand drive and in a few configurations such as 2wd, 4wd, with dumpbed and scissor hoist.
I decided to bid on one on GP and won it. There were no details but in the pics the steering wheel had been off, the tires mostly all flat, forklift damaged driveshaft and side body damage.
Well I won it. It was at Watervliet Arsenal near Albany NY.
I had a paid item release the next day and scheduled a pickup time on the next Monday.
Weather was perfect and I took a car trailer with a winch to load as I did not want them to forklift it again and I like to be self sufficient.
When I arrived there was the typical antics to get a day pass. The GP guy was waiting at the gate. We went out to where it sat(just like in the auctions pics), so no surprises.
It was boxed in by some other stuff so the GP guy called his contact and he came and looked and said he'd be back with a forklift. When he gets back with it he moved the one item beside it and asked if that was good. He said the other items around it were not his so he did not want to touch them. No big deal.
I backed the trailer up to it and pulled it sideways until I could swing it 90 degrees and winch it on the trailer. The GP guy helped without hesitation as he steered it as it went up the ramps.
Got it tied down and hit the highway.
Backed it up to the garage when I got home as we were expecting snow soon. I jumped the battery and touched the key and it fired right up and sounded great! I tried the dump/hoist and it worked too! I had one tire off and a jack under that corner so I could not try the clutch/trans.
Before unloading it I took one tire to the tire shop to get it fixed. While in town I bought a new battery for it too.
Got back, installed the tire and new battery.
Got in and tried the clutch/trans and brakes. All good so I drove it off the trailer and into the garage.
As time allowed over the next few days I have tinkered with a few things.
I found the steering wheel was removed because the wiper switch was inop. I've made a temporary fix for that. Found a nut and put the wheel on tight.
There was some rust in the cab floorboards, so I made some repairs to that.
It had no hitch so I made one from a 2" receiver hitch I had laying around.
I need to replace a torn front cv boot still. Yup, this truck is 4wd.
I've repaired the forklift body damage and took the damaged driveshaft to the local drive-line shop and had it retubed. 13" of tube...
Today I took it out in the snow and did some donuts with the dog.
I've found service manuals and lots of good info on these trucks.
I hope to find others on the site with them.
I decided to bid on one on GP and won it. There were no details but in the pics the steering wheel had been off, the tires mostly all flat, forklift damaged driveshaft and side body damage.
Well I won it. It was at Watervliet Arsenal near Albany NY.
I had a paid item release the next day and scheduled a pickup time on the next Monday.
Weather was perfect and I took a car trailer with a winch to load as I did not want them to forklift it again and I like to be self sufficient.
When I arrived there was the typical antics to get a day pass. The GP guy was waiting at the gate. We went out to where it sat(just like in the auctions pics), so no surprises.
It was boxed in by some other stuff so the GP guy called his contact and he came and looked and said he'd be back with a forklift. When he gets back with it he moved the one item beside it and asked if that was good. He said the other items around it were not his so he did not want to touch them. No big deal.
I backed the trailer up to it and pulled it sideways until I could swing it 90 degrees and winch it on the trailer. The GP guy helped without hesitation as he steered it as it went up the ramps.
Got it tied down and hit the highway.
Backed it up to the garage when I got home as we were expecting snow soon. I jumped the battery and touched the key and it fired right up and sounded great! I tried the dump/hoist and it worked too! I had one tire off and a jack under that corner so I could not try the clutch/trans.
Before unloading it I took one tire to the tire shop to get it fixed. While in town I bought a new battery for it too.
Got back, installed the tire and new battery.
Got in and tried the clutch/trans and brakes. All good so I drove it off the trailer and into the garage.
As time allowed over the next few days I have tinkered with a few things.
I found the steering wheel was removed because the wiper switch was inop. I've made a temporary fix for that. Found a nut and put the wheel on tight.
There was some rust in the cab floorboards, so I made some repairs to that.
It had no hitch so I made one from a 2" receiver hitch I had laying around.
I need to replace a torn front cv boot still. Yup, this truck is 4wd.
I've repaired the forklift body damage and took the damaged driveshaft to the local drive-line shop and had it retubed. 13" of tube...
Today I took it out in the snow and did some donuts with the dog.
I've found service manuals and lots of good info on these trucks.
I hope to find others on the site with them.
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