Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite - View Single Post - Been sittin' awhile- How to start?

appalacious · 01-05-2009, 20:23

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Originally Posted by mangus580

First question I have... is did YOU put it in 'storage' 18 months ago? or are you buying one thats been sitting.

If you put it away, and know the state when parked, I say top off the batteries and give it a shot.

If its an unknown... Follow all the advice above.

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'm really a novice so this is all golden to me.

I parked it 18 months ago when one of my batteries failed. It was in the middle of cranking (had been daily driver up to then) and it just died right in the middle of a crank.

I tried to diagnose the problem- did some rewiring, etc. Turns out it was just a bad battery. So I put a new one in (although not a 6TN or whatever- I just put in a big one) tried to crank it and got a weird loud rattle. That scared me into just converting the whole thing to 12V so it'd be easier to diagnose the problems- plus i never wrapped my head around the 24V circuit so thats another reason i wanted 12V.

Also, the GP relay seems to cycle on and off multiple times with ignition "on". Don't know what thats about.

So how do you bleed a fuel filter?

Thanks again,
J