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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

I guess what works for me, doesn't for other folks.

Hope you get it started.

Lou

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Home of Slant6-powered fun machines since 1988

WD-40 is great stuff...it removes just about any lubricant or grease and doesn't leave any behind. I once saw what happened to a 500 kV circuit breaker when a nitwit electrican used a shot of WD-40 in place of white lithium grease. Ka-Boom and bye bye $1 million. We weren't too happy with that guy!

All the suggestions given are good ones about starting the rig. I think I would pick up a set of brake bleed screws (at least four, plus two more to sacrifice to the various automotive gods) and a jug of brake fluid and drain the brakes at least once. I was STUNNED at how funky and nasty the brake fluid was in the rig I brought back to life--remember that brake fluid absorbs water. Be careful trying to bleed the brakes though--the bleed screws might be rusted shut and immovable--PB Blaster, Kroil, or Liquid Wrench might help loosen them but don't break the screws out in the field if you can avoid it. FYI--if new brake lines are needed (they probably will be) I can only say great things about In-Line Tube and their pre-bent stainless steel tubes. Worth every dollar--cheap, cheap, cheap piece of mind for the life of the rig.

Hopefully you have a place suitable to do all this. I picked up my truck from a farm with no shelter and no electricity. Sunk to the hubs in pine needles. Crappy November weather as well. I broke all of the fine advice noted in the previous posts, put a new battery in, used a crappy one-time-use-and-it-breaks $15 cigar lighter air compressor to pump up the tires, poured a shot of gas down the mouse nest infested carb and cranked on it for about 1 minute. Vroooommm. Drove it 350 miles home on ugly tires and all the other assorted unknowns--I wouldn't do it that way if I could have avoided it...follow the advice given if you can. If you can't, well, just consider it a few extra thousand miles of wear...

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Slanted D150

Hey, if shooting silicone into the engine makes you feel good, there might be some value in that.

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