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If cheap enough, it's worth pursuing. Unless you see the winch working assume it doesn't. Value zero. If you see it work, value is $700ish. So far you see a running engine and a functional transmission and transfer. The bob job is suspect, which drops the value, conceivably as low as scrap...

I called back. Ring no answer, for extended time. if you have any doubts about the truck, take your other 5ton and towbars and airlines. The extra fuel is nothing compared to a big truck tow. All auction trucks are a gamble, but ft riley trucks are more of a gamble than most.

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Is it easily and quickly reversed on the side of the road? My concern is that DOT will stop you and not let you move the truck until it's compliant, and if it can't be made compliant quickly they'd have the truck towed at some exorbitant cost and then have the truck impounded and stored at some...

The central office doesn't talk to the site. If you make a pickup appointment with the central office (as the instructions state) the site will be surprised to see you and won't he expecting you. Best bet is to contact the site directly. I sent you a PM a couple of days ago, offering site...

Take 2 known good batteries with you. Don't try to charge the utterly dead batteries that'll be in your truck with the trucks alternator as this will fry it. There's a motel 6 next to the sapps truckstop off exit 295. The motel is a good place to stay and the truckstop being right there to...

You replaced the master power switch? (Upper switch) Jiggle the cable to post connection....

5ton trucks are no problem. Cheap and easy. I've never seen anything tracked on the road...

I picked up a "fluids drained" truck out of Ft Hood and ended up driving it 1000 miles home. All fluids were new and full. Batteries were discharged. GL was known for forklifting vehicles and damaging them. GP has now developed the same practices. In Ft Riley they're using a loader with a...

Did you typo that? Left off a zero maybe? :)

Sold it, used the proceeds to fund a pretty good M925A1 with $ left over even after retrieval :)

That exceeds the tow rating of the M923A2 by about a factor of two. I've towed mine with my M923A2 and it tows fine but you definitely know it's back there, even empty. I've had 10k or so in it... if you're towing it in real hills, and loaded to capacity, expect 8mph... I suggest an M916...

Safety chains would have prevented this, obviously. If you fabricate something yourself, you need to be **** sure that the part you make/modify isn't the weakest point in the system. It isn't possible to build something indestructible, but you can make sure that it isn't the first point of...

Harbor freight sandblaster for under $20. Garden variety (desert variety?) sand and an N95 mask . You don't want silicosis, the mask is a must.

I got between 11mpg and 12mpg out of an M923A2 (super singles, 8.3 turbodiesel ), between Houston and Tulsa. 8-9mpg empty is more what to expect, best case. The NH250 gets 5-6mpg. I haven't noticed any difference made by super singles. M35A2 will get substantially better mileage. I got 10mpg...

Let me change one variable in what you did, and illustrate what could have happened... postulate for the moment that you had an empty trailer behind you when you were "adjusting that lever". You pull the lever, trailer brakes lock, trailer goes sideways and totals the little econobox next to...

Randomly moving levers of unknown function while going down the road is not a recommended practice. Badness can and will ensue. you're going to have a bunch of people tell you you need a class A CDL. I won't go quite that far, but you most certainly need the knowledge that would be required to...

What will you do, when inevitably, THIS happens?

Yes, but they aren't the same size obviously. This means you need 7 of them at once. Here's what they look like on a 5ton...they're just a couple inches shorter than 14s. For what it's worth I plan to change my M923A2 to 395's.

It seems you did bring the most important piece of recovery gear - a credit card with a high limit. As agazza suggests in your other post, the most cost effective way to proceed at this point is to get the truck into storage for $50 per month and take the time to mount a fully equipped...