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Get insurance before you drive it off. You should be fine and have a great time, but plan $$ as if it will be need to be towed off the freeway and later shipped 200 miles home so you can replace the dried seals at all 6 hubs, busted IP or other more involved repair.

Ouch!! I bet that hurt for a long time :shock:

Not sure who you are referring to, since I've only sold 2 trucks in 6 years, but this is an old post describing potential pitfalls of buying M809 series trucks on GL and expecting that you can just jump in and ride off into the sunset. Funny thing is, the same or similar risks exist with the...

The best looking M923 I bid on GL I won, and it had new paint and tires. It also leaked so much gear oil out of all 4 rear seals that my brakes were smoking badly within 50 miles. I stood on the side of the road beside the truck with a fire extinguisher for 10 min looking for flames. I really...

UPDATE for GSA sales - Preview is critical!!! We all know it's a cr_pshoot buying from GL, but GSA can be the same if you don't preview the item. I inspected an M35A2C at a recent GSA sale in Baton Rouge, and after walking around the truck, I was ready to spend several $K on it. Even though...

I didn't mean to say all the problems are GL's fault, since a lot of the issues are hidden from view. I've also met great folks at Camp Shelby, Redstone, Little Rock and Pineville. Others are...well, let's just say they are less than great. A couple I've met shocked me that they were able to...

While that can increase the odds of a good truck, that's not always a guarantee of a good running truck. Truck in line 11 had a new or rebuilt engine, transmission and transfer case, and the injection pump looked new as listed in the turn-in repair report that came with the truck. Aside...

There have been a lot of posts recently about wanting to buy a cheap Deuce/5-ton on GL that they can drive home. This morning, I previewed 4 M35A2’s at a GL location not to be named, and got to thinking of all the issues that new bidders need to be aware of Just today, out of 4 trucks, what...