You must have one understanding wife!
Nice looking Goat!
GR
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From: <mblair1@home.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: [MV] Gama Goat arrives!
>
> The M561 1.25-ton 6x6 Gama Goat that I won on Ebay recently arrived
> today. It needs an alternator, and a few fairly minor (?) body
> repairs, but otherwise it seems to be in good condition, and it seems
> to run well. As I mentioned earlier, I was planning to unload it from
> the flatbed with my M543A2 5-ton 6x6 wrecker, lifting one end at a
> time and pulling the trailer out from underneath it. That's a lot more
> work than hiring a tilt-bed wrecker, and hiring a tilt-bed would even
> have been cheaper than the chain sling that I built... but it was a
> lot more fun this way! :-)
>
> The unloading worked out just fine, and the truck driver even helped
> out. Unfortunately, I didn't find out the delivery day until the last
> minute, and I was not able to draft somebody to take pictures of the
> fun. The fact that it's Father's Day didn't help! :-)
>
> Anyway, the truck is parked, safe and sound, and I put a few pictures
> on my web page. I plan to take better pictures later, after I've
> worked on it a bit and I can move it to a better location. For now,
> those of you who have never been near a Gama Goat can finally see what
> the driver's compartment looks like! Hidden behind the steering wheel
> is a panel with the battery switch, the starter button, three toggle
> switches for the bilge pump and windshield wipers (there are separate
> switches for the left and right wipers), an engine stop cable, the
> hand throttle cable, and a "stop" light that I think can be turned on
> by a button in the trailer (I haven't tried it yet).
>
> The main URL for my web page is below in my .signature, and here's a
> short-cut to the Gama Goat page:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/ke6myk/greentruck/truck5/truck5.html
>
> I love the sound of that 2-stroke diesel! At idle, it sounds like a
> fire truck, and it sounds like a race car when it's wound up. Even
> though the truck lacks an alternator, it started very easily and runs
> just fine. I didn't run it for very long, because the water pump
> doesn't turn without the alternator applying tension to the belt. I'll
> replace the alternator before I start it again. I need to do some work
> on other trucks first, so it might be a few weeks to a couple months
> before the Goat comes home to my driveway.
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, KE6MYK <mblair1@home.net>
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