A little different line but I remember a CUCV I got 5 years ago or so.
Originally came from Port Phyneme, CA (I can't remember how its spelled).
Truck did not run. Would not turn over. I put a breaker bar on the thing to
try and turn it over (No movin). Well engine must be locked up. Time to sell
for cheep price. Off loaded it to a friend told him it was locked up some
how. Well he took the heads off only to find corroded heads and little rocks
on the top of the pistons. It looked like they went down to the beach and
put a shovel full of surf and turf down the intake. That also reminds me of
another truck dentless virgin 20,*** miles Well dentless until the ______
(we will leave this blank I am unable to come up with any clean verbiage
during this thought) fork lift driver at the DRMO did his best . LEFT side
two creases from the forks. RIGHT side four creases (you could tell the
first time he tried to pick it up he was to far back, heavy in the front)
back up and ram the truck again. Wow now four creases on the right side.
Literally this truck was dentless, other than this and ran perfect.
Dan Parmley Jr.
Tactical Vehicle Depot
artillerydan@prodigy.net
GPW (1-3-44 SN:170660)
M37 (USMC) 1951
M101A1 trailer (USMC) 196?
M756A2 pipeline truck (Seabees) 1969
M2A2 105mm Howitzer 1952
M2A2 105mm Howitzer 1943
XM34 (Little John) Rocket Launcher 1960
M274A1 Mule 19??
+ lots of trailers
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon <c322348@yahoo.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: [MV] The US military is in big trouble!!!! HMMWV from hell...
> Some things really irk me! Morale must be at an all time low in the USMC
> (no, I'm not intending to start another political discussion here...).
>
> So far on my 1985 M998 HMMWV I have found the following amazing acts of
> ignorance, stupidity, carelessness, and laziness:
>
> 1. I just removed the oil filter from my 1996 USMC overhauled 6.2 liter
> diesel only to discover a USMC issue green earplug lodged between the
block
> and the filter. The ONLY way this could have gotten in there is if it was
> placed there intentionally! Luckily Gomer Pyle placed it on the filter
inlet
> side where it couldn't really plug anything up.
> 2. A missing washer on a tie rod causing the cotter pin to not engage the
> castellated nut. This allowed the nut to back off a few turns causing the
> front suspension toe-in to be random and variable. This, combined with a
> worn drag link and steering arm (probably never lubed since new) added up
to
> about 3 inches of toe-in/toe-out slop between the two front wheels.
> 3. No lubricant packs for the runflats in two of the tires....
> 4. A missing cotter pin on another steering component.
> 5. One out of three bolts missing on each and every exhaust joint.
> 6. Disabled neutral start switch...I discovered that one accidentally!
> Although I can't run very fast, a HMMWV doesn't idle away from you very
> quickly...luckily nobody got run over. Of course they cut and spliced the
> body harness wires instead of the neutral start switch wires to bypass the
> unit, so you can't just replace the neutral start switch, now you have to
> fix the harness too.
> 7. A metric bolt forced into place to hold on the transmission oil pan.
> Naturally the head snapped off as I removed it. Some cuss words and an
> easy-out later I was able to successfully chase the threads and complete
the
> job.
> 8. One of the wheels had the O-Ring cut into two pieces, yet the excessive
> grease slopped around the O-Ring area kept it from leaking. About a 2-inch
> long piece of the O-Ring was floating around loose inside the tire.
>
> Thankfully some ground pounder wan't forced to drive this crate into
combat
> in some foreign land (at the direction of some misguided politician trying
> to make a legacy for himself), only to be further at risk when his HMMWV
> craps out due to malicious pranks and negligence by his own "comrades."
>
> I'm not sorry I bought the HMMWV (yet), but frankly I am quite surprised
> that the military takes such poor care of their (our) vehicles. I realize
> that these vehicles are used in an extreme environment, but there is no
> excuse for a lack of preventative maintenance. When I was inspecting
> vehicles at the time I purchased mine, I was shocked at how many trucks
had
> blown engines (and other serious maladies) with under 15,000 miles on
them!
>
> With all the manuals that the military publishes, you would think that
they
> would require people to read them! Your (at least the US list members) tax
> dollars at work! Semper Fi????
>
>
>
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