Saw an air braked M35a2 yesterday

[Trango]

I was at an auction and saw a fully-airbraked M35a2. Bidding went over my level, but I got tons of pics. The conversion included full cans on all axles (including maxis on the rearmost bogie), replacement backing plates (bolted on in the rear), and deleted the transfer case ebrake (since the rears already had maxis, I'd guess). Looked to be S-cam because it had slack adjusters etc (I'm not familiar with what wedge type brakes look like).

This was a fire truck owned by a local municipality.

Any interest in pics?

Anyone have any ideas on who might have created this conversion?

Best,
Bob

 

[Chieftawny]

Of course we want pics!

 

[nk14zp]

 

[bratpackdad]

Pics? of course we want pics!

 

[srodocker]

yea lets see some pics

 

[hndrsonj]

Do we want pics? That's a dumb question.

 

[Maverick1701]

pics or its a Prius

 

[velociT]

pics or its a Prius

 

[gimpyrobb]

Nah, pics are for guys with no imagination!

 

[Maverick1701]

Nah, pics are for guys with no imagination!

Oh we had imagination....
In my imagination the truck rolls up w/10 beautiful topless women and as the truck rolls to a stop the blue angels fly over my house doing an air show synched to the music of Queen

 

[fuzzytoaster]

I'd like air brakes eventually.. -pipe-dream-

 

[Trango]

I put together the pics in a little flickr set - please let me know if there are issues accessing this.

Deuce Air Brakes - a set on Flickr

Best,
Bob

 

[hndrsonj]

So I gotta ask, what did the truck go for? Memphis has the kits for a 5 ton and they are stupid expensive.

 

[crasheej]

Why not ask some one in charge of the truck when where ho did them?

 

[emr]

waste of time money and effort... just sayin...

 

[Trango]

That's an idea, but it's the extraordinarily rare auction that allows access to the original purchaser or outfitter of a piece of equipment.

 

[bratpackdad]

So, I don't get it. Air brakes on the deuce..why so great??

 

[Trango]

So I gotta ask, what did the truck go for? Memphis has the kits for a 5 ton and they are stupid expensive.

I happen to have one of those Memphis kits for the 5 ton, on axles.

It's for rears only, though. My challenge will be to fabricate the pieces to make it "front axle compatible".

Seeing this setup, though, really helped me out. I also got the buyer's contact details.

I'd say that it's possible I'll buy this truck one day from him.

 

[RAYZER]

man i dont know, it seemes like those canisters could get all bent up backing out of a big mud hole!

 

[lacoda56]

I don't know why the military hung onto the air over hydraulic crap, but whoever was responsible for it oughta be dragged out and shot! Air brakes are like a thousand times easier to maintain and operate, plus with maxi's on both rears, you know it's gonna stay where you parked it!