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On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:18:31PM -0800, mblair1@home.net wrote:
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> I'm a bit unclear about whether it is "correct" for my former-USMC
> M998 HMMWV to have the cargo bulkhead installed behind the front
> seats. Based on the left-over brackets and holes, it appears that my
> truck was configured as a 4-door soft-top with a soft cargo area
> cover, and that's the way I'll be outfitting it (basically, a 4-door
> rag-top station wagon, for those of you less familiar with military
> HMMWV configurations). It may or may not have had the wide cargo
> bulkhead installed behind the front seats at some time. It does not
> appear to have had the narrow bulkhead installed between the rear
> wheel wells, behind the rear seats.
>
> I've been told that the narrow bulkhead was used behind the rear seats
> in 4-door vehicles, without a bulkhead behind the front seats.
> However, my parts manual says the narrow rear bulkhead was only used
> in slant-back armored trucks, and it shows the front bulkhead in place
> in the 4-door soft-top parts diagram. The instructions for
> installing/removing the 4-door soft top in my operator's manual show
> no bulkheads in place. Of course, almost anybody who bought one of
> those Riverside HMMWVs can attest that the previous owners were too
> busy shooting holes in the floorboards to read the manuals. :-)
>
> Based on any first-hand knowledge of how the trucks were shipped
> and/or used, which option(s) are "correct"?
none of the 4 door, soft top hummers i drove had the front bulkhead.
the two door cargo versions did. i can't remember for sure if the
4 door soft tops had the rear bulkhead, but i think they did.
-- Eric Kozowski Portland, OR M35A2's For Sale http://www.svjava.com/~kozowski/m35/
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