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JBLM MEP-006A (PU-650B/G) Recovery Trip
Sorry for the long drawn out story. Seems I can never put down a brief recovery story..LOL. Yesterday was a very successfull recovery trip at Joint Base Lewis McChord. I headed up at 0 dark 30 to pickup my PU-650B/G (fancy way of saying a MEP-006A mounted on a M200A1 trailer). I had a heck of a time trying to figure out what to bring to the recovery trip as this was the first "real" trailer I ever hauled. My mind was stuck on another deuce recovery. After awhile the air hoses, air compressor wrench, etc in the back of my truck didn't make sense. I guess I've picked up too many deuces
I unloaded everything and just threw a standard tool kit in the rear.
I really can't tell you what I'm going to do with this thing. I saw it and was more or less interested in what these gensets go for. I threw down what I thought was a small bid....a day and a couple hours later I won the darn thing. No regrets though. I made an executive decision a couple days before. I decided to take my 3/4 ton HD Dodge Cummins for the recovery. I took a chance in that I planned the recovery the morning of a work day. Mr. Murphy was in the back of my head and several potential catastrophic events filled my mind on the drive up to JBLM. By God's grace everything went smoothly with no problems what so ever. As I have told a couple SS, I have a new found respect for that 5.9 High Output Cummins. At acceration speeds and highway speeds, I hardly noticed the towed weight of 7,000 lbs. Due to the double caliper disc brakes at all four corners, braking was NOT an issue at all. I pretty much stayed in 5th gear (6 speed manual tranny) the whole way home.
I got stung by the GL thief. Someone made off with my dipstick. That was the first thing I checked for. After I won it, I did after-winning preview to look her over and thought maybe I should pull the dipstick and hide in the trailer. Of course I didn't, someone else did.
Looks like a trip to the scrapper for parts.
Looks like she was recently serviced as the oil was just changed! Belts just changed out to brand new NAPA ones, antifreeze looks fresh, batteries are fresh/dead, and the fuel tank was plumb full of diesel! (that's 55 gallons worth ). The hour meter reads 448.5 hours. She also came with 4 brand new tires. The description states she's a 1978. Looking inside of her, she is much newer than that. There were 3 other MEP-006A's in this auction and they all sold for around the same price. I like the MERDC as she will match my parade deuce nicely.
The pintle adapter plate was a little too low for this trailer. I may end up flipping the lunette at a later date. I ended up having to pick the front up by hand so my son could push the landing leg up. I was surprise the tongue weight wasn't more. Sorry no pics on that one. I kind of had my hands full
Issues:
Cut air line
Deck mangled but useable
Dipstick MIA
BIG
Auction details
Won: 22DEC10
Submitted EUC: 03JAN11 (almost defaulted)
EUC sent to BC: 03JAN11
Notified EUC selected for PERIODIC ASSESSMENT: 11JAN11** (told it could 4-8 weeks)
PAID IN FULL Invoice: 19JAN11
Pickup: 21JAN11
**contacted Becky B at DLA/DRMO to express my interest in expediting this EUC as my previous EUC (8th one) took 2 months and didn't want to wait another 2 months for this one...not sure if it helped but those 4-8 weeks took 6 days
Sorry for the long drawn out story. Seems I can never put down a brief recovery story..LOL. Yesterday was a very successfull recovery trip at Joint Base Lewis McChord. I headed up at 0 dark 30 to pickup my PU-650B/G (fancy way of saying a MEP-006A mounted on a M200A1 trailer). I had a heck of a time trying to figure out what to bring to the recovery trip as this was the first "real" trailer I ever hauled. My mind was stuck on another deuce recovery. After awhile the air hoses, air compressor wrench, etc in the back of my truck didn't make sense. I guess I've picked up too many deuces
I unloaded everything and just threw a standard tool kit in the rear. I really can't tell you what I'm going to do with this thing. I saw it and was more or less interested in what these gensets go for. I threw down what I thought was a small bid....a day and a couple hours later I won the darn thing. No regrets though. I made an executive decision a couple days before. I decided to take my 3/4 ton HD Dodge Cummins for the recovery. I took a chance in that I planned the recovery the morning of a work day. Mr. Murphy was in the back of my head and several potential catastrophic events filled my mind on the drive up to JBLM. By God's grace everything went smoothly with no problems what so ever. As I have told a couple SS, I have a new found respect for that 5.9 High Output Cummins. At acceration speeds and highway speeds, I hardly noticed the towed weight of 7,000 lbs. Due to the double caliper disc brakes at all four corners, braking was NOT an issue at all. I pretty much stayed in 5th gear (6 speed manual tranny) the whole way home.
I got stung by the GL thief. Someone made off with my dipstick. That was the first thing I checked for. After I won it, I did after-winning preview to look her over and thought maybe I should pull the dipstick and hide in the trailer. Of course I didn't, someone else did.
Looks like a trip to the scrapper for parts.Looks like she was recently serviced as the oil was just changed! Belts just changed out to brand new NAPA ones, antifreeze looks fresh, batteries are fresh/dead, and the fuel tank was plumb full of diesel! (that's 55 gallons worth
). The hour meter reads 448.5 hours. She also came with 4 brand new tires. The description states she's a 1978. Looking inside of her, she is much newer than that. There were 3 other MEP-006A's in this auction and they all sold for around the same price. I like the MERDC as she will match my parade deuce nicely.The pintle adapter plate was a little too low for this trailer. I may end up flipping the lunette at a later date. I ended up having to pick the front up by hand so my son could push the landing leg up. I was surprise the tongue weight wasn't more. Sorry no pics on that one. I kind of had my hands full
Issues:
Cut air line
Deck mangled but useable
Dipstick MIA
BIG
Auction details
Won: 22DEC10
Submitted EUC: 03JAN11 (almost defaulted)
EUC sent to BC: 03JAN11
Notified EUC selected for PERIODIC ASSESSMENT: 11JAN11** (told it could 4-8 weeks)
PAID IN FULL Invoice: 19JAN11
Pickup: 21JAN11
**contacted Becky B at DLA/DRMO to express my interest in expediting this EUC as my previous EUC (8th one) took 2 months and didn't want to wait another 2 months for this one...not sure if it helped but those 4-8 weeks took 6 days
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. I had 1/2 inch to spare when backing it in. I think was the most stressful MV experience I have ever had. Mind you I have really no experience with trailers. To back one into a garage with 1/2 inch height allowance and only 6 inches to each side. I think my Dodge's clutch is probably hating me right now. I never road a clutch so much
in a couple months rather than 