Hey Safe. Your M-886 should have a mechanical distributor, points and
condenser. The points/condenser are better for EMP (Electro magnetic pulse)
that happens in an atomic air burst, were they explode the bomb above the
earth's surface.
I too hope we never need it too, as the M-886 Ambulance is not NBC proof
and chemical agents will get into the truck as it is not air tight like some
other MVs the military have. I do seem to remember a M-43 Ambulance sitting
in my friends yard, (doing a slow rot) had a sticker near the air vent about
closing it during an Chemical attack to seal the ambulance box from chemical
agents. Hope this helps.
Take care talk to you later. Mark M-886
----- Original Message -----
From: "ken uhrick" <kuhrick@home.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M52 five ton ALWAYS ON problem fixed.
> At 05:29 PM 9/30/00 -0700, Bill George wrote:
> >Couldn't have been simpler. For some darned reason, this truck has a
switch
> >located below the instruments that is labeled Keep Switch in OFF
position.
> >Only turn on in event of chemical or atomic attack. Seems to be some sort
of
> >electrical bypass switch. This is the only truck I have ever seen it on.
> AND i HOPE YOU NEVER NEED IT
> Or all of us is in for trouble
> and my m886 would be out too i bet
> any one know how many HMV's would make it and operate after a
> nuclear blast i meen the way off ones not the ground 0 stuff i hear
> points and older stuff would make it better than the new things
> should i get and keep a old points disbuter for my MV
>
>
>
> >Anyway the problem was, that the switch happened to be in the ON
position.
> >Thanks for all the suggestions though. Anybody else have one of these
> >switches? It's not in any of my manuals.
> >Bill
> >
> >
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