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Brake master cylinder is under floor in front of driver's seat and accessed through trap door in floor. Military has been using DOT 5 brake fluid for some time. Do not mix DOT 3 and 5 together. Primary fuel filter is under left fender . Do you know that this truck has 2ea electric fuel pumps ...

Thye best advise I ever got about military vehicles is "Read the reading."Don't make a move without a -10, -20 manual(s) and the applicable LO for the vehicle you have. If you do not know what those are you need to find out. The best kept secret in the United States military is its' publication...

Engine teardowns are usually a 4th eschelon or General Support function in the Army maintenance scheme. This is 4th out of five eschelons in TAMS so you will have to find someone with a -40 manual. These are not too common and the lower eschelon books will state "notify direct support."

When changing the fuel filters it is necessary to close the shut off valve next to the filter body to avoid taking a bath in diesel fuel. This is not the same valve that controls the cross over line from the right to the left fuel tank. If canisters have drain valves drain them and remove same ...

Fuel filter closest to tank is a scraper filter. Other two take same element: NSN2910-00-287-1912. Filters under hood are for oil and filter element is NSN 2940-00-141-9026 and 2 ea are required for one truck.

The tranfer cased is different on fire trucks with pumps because the PTO for the fire pump runs off the transfer case, not the transmission as a winch would. Transmission has to be in 4th gear and transfer in neutral to run fire pump. Similar to a M49C or a wrecker.

The unit designation is displayed on the passenger's side of the front bumper, the unit's fleet number on the driver's side, usually preceeded by the letter designation of the unit or some other letter designation such as "B 267," or "TMP 267," or TK 267," or whatever the owning unit's SOP was...

"Splitter" on the side of the gearshift is a lockout to prevent the transmission from being inadvertently shifted into reverse. If engien cranks and does not start what is the status of the choke ? The adjustment for this is finicy and large has engines can be difficult to start without the...

Kindly consider setting all 4 jacks when picking a load alongside, rather than off the end, of a M816, so if the load comes off the crane because a sling breaks or what not the unit does not fall over onto the other side possibly with you under it when it lands.

If the caged brake is out of service because of a leaking diaphram in the emergency side then the air line leading to it from the chassis would have to be plugged to maintain the air in the rest of the brake system on both vehicles. Safest solution is either to resolve the air leak prior to...

The inside nut on a bud wheel stud piloted system is sometimes refered to as the thimble. With commercial trucks you have the replace the hub and the wheels to convert from stud piloted to the newer hub piloted wheels. Crack a stud piloted wheel today and it a special order item to get a new...

Budd stud piloted wheels use right hand thread on the passenger side and left handed thread on the driver's side. when duealm wheels arte used there is an inside and outside lug nut which on a 5 ton equals twenty lug nuts to remove to get the insside tire off. Hub piloted wheels use one...

I have done this before but it requires a tractor at each end to load and unload the payload. E-mail shadyside1983@optonline.net

Remember the existing spicer trans has an air valve on the cover to orient the transfer case to which direction the transmission is going. Not familiar with 900 series automatics; do they have this feature? Otherwise when the army trans comes out you loose the 6X6 when the trans is not...

Remember everything that hooks up from the chassis to the engine will be in a different place and the radiator will have to be replaced too. With enouigh time and money anything is possible but do want to put that into this ?

READ THE LUBRICATION ORDER. iT WILL TELL YOU WHAT FLUID IS AUTHORIZED. WITHOUT SEEING THE LO I WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE OE10. NSN FOR FILTER WOULD BE IN THE PARTS BOOK AND HOPEFULLY YOUR PARTS HOUSE CAN TRANSLATE TO A VENDOR PART NUMBER.

Brakes ? trailer has airbrakes and 24v lights. Towing one with a pick up on winter roads will be a character building. expierence.

What kind of trucks, where are they now and where do they have to go ?

Pressurize fuel tank: 0n a tractor you have to remove the deck plate above the fuel tank the selector valve is set to, which will facilitate inspecting the fittings there, remove one screw from the fuel gauge sending unit, remove chuck from tire inflator hose and place tube over screw hole...

Lottsa never seize on the thimbles and lug nuts when you put it back on if you ever plan to take this apart again in this life time. pix of tire shop attached. use a clip on chuck with long hose to inflate tires. Problems with unscheduled disassembly during reinflation frequently caused by rust...