Small White Car
07-20-2011, 07:11 PM
*tl;dr see below.
So lemme lay it on ya, I managed a fleet of old ass E-350 Fords for a couple years until the business I worked at closed and the trucks went indoors and sat...
And sat.
And sat.
It's a year and six, no seven months later and now they've been dragged out into the light kicking and screaming.
Now they were parked with full tanks of quality diesel and were run now and again for the first oh, I'd say year, when I could get there to do the favor. Nothing in the last seven months, just stored indoors in a fairly climate controlled (in so much as it's closed) building in southern California.
Two I put on the charger and after an hour or so they fired and I drove them out, one has had a new pair of batteries put in it and it runs like a top and has gone on to a new owner, however these two particular trucks were used to sitting for a couple months at a time because they were the back up trucks so I wasn't too surprised.
The rest, not so much, I'm getting less than 12 across the terminals so instead of cranking a dying cell to its bitter demise I'd throw a new set in and figured I'd be good to go.
Yeah, not so much. The new boss picked one, against my recommendation to burn them all for the insurance, and asked me to bring it back to life and against my own better judgment i said okay.
:bang:
I got a good crank with the new batteries but it sounds like I got no fuel and there ends my knowledge of the Ford Powerstroke.
My friend and mechanic Bill passed away a while back and the new folks really don't want to deal with the trucks, I mean they gave me a price but ½ the worth of the truck pretty much tells you how they feel about taking these things under their wings.
*tl;dr please disregard dribble and begin here.
So anything? Advice, knowledge, ability to come to my place in Santa Fe Springs and make them live for a few bucks?
So lemme lay it on ya, I managed a fleet of old ass E-350 Fords for a couple years until the business I worked at closed and the trucks went indoors and sat...
And sat.
And sat.
It's a year and six, no seven months later and now they've been dragged out into the light kicking and screaming.
Now they were parked with full tanks of quality diesel and were run now and again for the first oh, I'd say year, when I could get there to do the favor. Nothing in the last seven months, just stored indoors in a fairly climate controlled (in so much as it's closed) building in southern California.
Two I put on the charger and after an hour or so they fired and I drove them out, one has had a new pair of batteries put in it and it runs like a top and has gone on to a new owner, however these two particular trucks were used to sitting for a couple months at a time because they were the back up trucks so I wasn't too surprised.
The rest, not so much, I'm getting less than 12 across the terminals so instead of cranking a dying cell to its bitter demise I'd throw a new set in and figured I'd be good to go.
Yeah, not so much. The new boss picked one, against my recommendation to burn them all for the insurance, and asked me to bring it back to life and against my own better judgment i said okay.
:bang:
I got a good crank with the new batteries but it sounds like I got no fuel and there ends my knowledge of the Ford Powerstroke.
My friend and mechanic Bill passed away a while back and the new folks really don't want to deal with the trucks, I mean they gave me a price but ½ the worth of the truck pretty much tells you how they feel about taking these things under their wings.
*tl;dr please disregard dribble and begin here.
So anything? Advice, knowledge, ability to come to my place in Santa Fe Springs and make them live for a few bucks?