yeah, the steers on the rear for drives will get interesting in the muddy grass for sure. This thing probably isn't going to see winter roads, so at least I'm good there.
I bought it at the local U haul place, but it was purchased from Uhaul corporate from AZ. The local place was a complete clusterf*ck. I had called earlier in the week about it, gave them the truck# and VIN, told them I'd be by saturday to test drive it and buy it if it drove good. cash money. The Uhaul Truck sales website rated this one 3 out of 4 stars and said it ran and drove. I get there Saturday, when I told them I wold be there. They didn't have any keys for either of the JH trucks, so I waited for an hour and a half for the fleet service guy to make me a key. Then I found out that it hadn't been run since it drove onto the lot, the fuel tank was bone dry, as was the entire fuel system.
I took the fleet service guy's word that it was a good running and driving truck, he remember it because it had no radio and he had driven it to that lot. it had the dealer's diesel stickers and I had the maintenance records, so I took a chance and basically bought a non-running Uhaul. 4 hours spent priming the fuel system and getting it to run and I drove it home.
Not bad for the first diesel motor I'd ever touched, seriously. The people at the Uhaul place thought I was a diesel mechanic, because thye'd had people trying to make them run and couldn't. Which is why half the injector lines were partially open. You shold hae seen the fuel spraying out when I finally got it to light off! I tightened all of the injector lines while it was running, you have got to love an engine bay you can stand in ith a running motor.
All in all it was a great deal on a truck with a crap ton of new drivetrain stuff, but I was very disappointed that I had called monday and showed up to a dead truck on Saturday. I mean, to not even have keys when you knew someone was coming to look at it! I also didn't really enjoy being covered in diesel fuel for half a day and driving back 80 miles home reeking of diesel in the cab. At least I know I can make it run anywhere after that ordeal.