Multifuel gauge positions always the same?

[Gastrap]

Were the multifuel gauges always located in the positions the TM shows? Mine were different, switched 4 of them around today but it got me wondering how the Army mechanics could get this wrong if all deuces were the same throughout the years. I suppose some of them are lucky just to get the right fluids in the right holes.

 

[roscoe]

I do not have a clue. Where are the smart people?

 

[Michael]

The several I have seen are all different. Gauges seem to just be thrown in at random.

 

[Gastrap]

Of the ones I previewed at Camp Dodge, I didnt pay much attention to all the locations, but I do seem to remember several with oil pressure in the bottom row there.

The reason I looked into the TM for locations was because I found having my air & oil right next to each other seemed stupid, considering they have the same range. Much better where they are now!

 

[spentshell]

If I change mine now it would always look like I would have plenty of fuel, im sticking with what I got.

 

[Gastrap]

If I change mine now it would always look like I would have plenty of fuel, im sticking with what I got.

That's exactly how mine was right down to the labels ( mine were on the bezels). Was yours through Toole too? I wonder if they were doing it.

 

[spentshell]

Yup, 84 out of Toole.

 

[crazyplowboy]

My Deuce was an 86 Toole rebuild and also had the same guage placement.

 

[Pawnshop]

My M35 went through Toole in '92 and has the same arrangement, my M109 never did get a rebuild and it is different (though I can't recall the config right now) I will look tomorrow.

 

[Chevytruck]

i think it would have depended on the mechanic that was fixing them.

they are all labeled internally, so not of a huge deal.

 

[datsunaholic]

Mine was done at Toole in 1992, but the gauges are arranged I believe "normally".

 

[IHASFIP]

Mine was done at Toole in 1992, but the gauges are arranged I believe "normally".

Yea, I guess it all just depends on what it looked like when you got it as to what is "normal" Yours is weird to me, and mine is normal. I am sure mine is just as weird to you.

If I change mine now it would always look like I would have plenty of fuel, im sticking with what I got.

Mine looks just like yours. I don't know where it was rebuilt though. Just that it was rebuilt in 86 I believe. Except for the motor which was rebuilt in 88.

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[doghead]

I have trucks that have them in different positions also. I am just happy when they all work correctly.

 

[Castle Bravo]

Mine was done at Toole in 1992, but the gauges are arranged I believe "normally".

Mine are in that arrangement as well. I'm not sure when or where it was done, though.

 

[Ferroequinologist]

When I first started my latest M109, I panicked and shut it down, because the 'oil' gauge never registered anything. Found out after I shut it down it was the fuel gauge in the upper left corner, in my other trucks, it is the oil pressure. I got so used to seeing oil pressure in that location, that I didn't even see the E-F on the gauge or the FUEL stenciled right under it.

 

[Pawnshop]

My M109 has the oil press in the top left pos as well, might have to change that so it matches the M35, and might be able to figure out why it is INOP at this time...

 

[Gastrap]

My M109 has the oil press in the top left pos as well, might have to change that so it matches the M35, and might be able to figure out why it is INOP at this time...

Top left is where the TM shows it, just like your picture. Mine are like this now & much easier to look at without the two pressure gauges next to each other.