RE: [MV] Tow bar source?

From: John Hutterer (john.hutterer@deltec.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 08:34:54 PST

Mark,

I'm not sure how you would tow the truck with the front axle off of the
ground, without a wrecker. Generally speaking, Organizational Maintenance
(Company level Maintenance)would be the first level of support that would
have access to a wrecker, so, naturally, they would be the ones to contact
to tow the truck with the axle off of the ground. Sounds kind of like
circular reasoning.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: mblair1@home.net [mailto:mblair1@home.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:06 AM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: Re: [MV] Tow bar source?

By the way: My M44-series (i.e., M35A2) TM says "don't tow the truck
with the front axle off the ground; call organizational maintenance."

Is that because:

a) The truck should not ever be towed with the front axle off the
ground.

or

b) They just didn't want the low-echelon guys messing with that, and
wanted a higher repair echelon to get involved if the truck was dead
enough to need a wrecker.

In other words, should I heed that warning for my own personal use?

My M109A3 shop van came home from DRMO with its front axle off the
ground, and the shaft from the transfer case to the middle axle
removed. It was a trip of about 150 miles or so. 

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