From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 10:10:35 PDT
Dont feel remotely embarrased.
Nearly everytime I took the M3A3 Stuart to a show I ran it out of gas in the
arena, getting it up on or down off the low boy, in a parade, moving it in
or out of a dispaly area - in fact it almost became an expected antic. A
particularlly memorable one was running out of gas in the halftrack at a
show, then flattening hte battery trying to re-start it - tow it with the
tank someone said - 30 seconds later it was out of gas too. The arena
marshall at the show called for fuel and from seemingly nowhere came several
cans of fairly dodgy fuel and we then got a Ward La france to tow start the
tank, as it was a pig to start when hot. Still the corwd were amused. I
never quite got the hang of judging how much gas it burnt - still its sold
now so my wallet can breathe easier.
Nige
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Stead" <gadget@EasyPath.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: [MV] M35 unusual power increase
>
> I did something rather embarrassing with my deuce yesterday on the way
> back from the WWII show in Reading...I ran out of fuel. It died at the
pump!
> It's a long story how I even got to that point, so I'll spare everyone the
> details.
> What's really strange is that after re-fueling, bleeding the air from
the
> filters, and getting going again the truck has a lot more power. I'm able
to
> keep up with the tractor trailers going uphill now, I even passed a couple
> on the strait-aways.
>
> With a 2500lb load...
> 2600 RPM used to equate to low 50's in my truck, and now it's closer to
60.
> Approaches to long, steep inclines (at 2750 RPM) used to be about 60. Now,
> well past that. I can even hold 50-55 going up those hills.
> Inclines that used to drop me to about 37MPH in 4th, I can now do 45ish
> while still in overdrive.
>
> I'm guessing this isn't normal performance. Or, is it? If it isn't, before
> something blows up,....what should I be looking for?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
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