Those were from a week ago. Today I went in, punched a hole through the new spacer and checked fitment. Good enough for me!
Did some work on the braces and extended them as far as they would go.
Positioned the forklift under the boom, put the braces on the boom, one of us held the boom up lever and the other lifted the boom to the correct height, the pins were installed and the boom is now locked, safely, into a position that allows work to be done at the manifold! The spacer ring works great!
After the boom was secured, I needed to find out what I am in for. Looked through all of the TM's we pulled out and none has anything about the wrecker boom itself. I had ZERO idea of even what this was/is. I took out the google-fu and after a short amount of time, came across a guy that did a walk around of an M62 at a place in Ky. He referenced a manual, TM 9-8029. Google-fu directed me to a few places, a couple of which were here on SS, a post from
@gimpyrobb, one from
@doghead, and I think one from Ron, but still no PDF, only a hard copy. Then I got to thinking, if the library we have at the Museum might have a copy.
5 minutes later, a hard copy in hand! And it is an Austin Western, Tulsa winch equipped unit. The unit that had it before or the one that did the "body work" sanded all of the data plates, so they are all hard to read.
I'm figuring 100' of #16 hose, 20 or so adapter fittings from the funky compression fittings to regular fittings, 50 feet of #10 and fittings, some new o-rings and fluid and we will be GTG......6k? Maybe time for a "Go Fund Me" for the Museum. We will struggle with this expense, but it is needed to do other projects.
Now, just need to figure out how to get the drain plug out of the hydraulic tank, that thing is TIGHT
And, Just moving the boom/carriage with the forklift made the lines leak more than they already were, so, yeah, they need to be done so we don't make a giant environmental mess at the compound, it is Army COE land. Glad we didn't fire it and try the hydraulics.
Anyone got a line on data plates? Especially for the wrecker controls.