From: Bobby Joe Pendleton II (bobbyjoe@chartertn.net)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 09:11:52 PDT
While I have my had truck in mud I never had any trouble with it down
shifting. The only complaint I had was it had the tendency to want to up
shift at the wrong time. Just as you would get going up a hill and get the
engine up to speed it would up shift and you would lose all momentum. I put
the Manual shift kit in it and it works great. When I removed the
transmission in mine I found a rebuild tag on it dated 1968. It started
slipping in low range in 1998.. 30 years is not to bad. I know the guy who
drove it from the Army base in KY and delivered it to a local Fire Dept here
in EAST TN in the 70s. He done all of the work and up keep on it while the
fire Dept had it,and said the transmission had never been touched other than
changing the oil in it. If you have ever been a Fire Dept you know how hard
they are on trucks.
G-749 trucks does have some advantages over the M35.( go ahead and flame
me ) With the sloped hood you can see out better, the cab is wider, the
steering wheel is at a better angle. No black smoke or kerosene smell, no
engine rattle and over all quieter running and no, I have never head of
putting beer in the gas tank to cool the beer. That is why I like Vodka, no
cooling needed.
Bobby Joe Pendleton II
MVPA #17657
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From: "Fred Martin" <mung@in-touch.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: [MV] War story and M-211
> Had a nice long talk with the girlfriend's father yesterday and
> found out he was one of the first outfits (army artillary) into Korea,
> came from Japan on LST's (landing ship tanks)...said they didn't have
> equipment to lash down vehicles and used several turns of no. 9 wire.
> Also said the damn cooks were too lazy to lash down the mobile kitchen
> truck and rough seas took it over the side...bummer! The point of this
> is...he said the M-211 (I think...with the automatic
> transmission)...while in Korea wasn't liked. He said that while going
> downhill on muddy type terrain...(also commented on no hard top roads in
> Korea) that the darn thing would downshift on it's own and all wheels
> would slide...losing traction and steerability. Any of you guys that own
> these noticed this? I think that while we all have enough mud...maybe
> Bobby Joe can volunteer his vehicle to field test this...unless the
> shift kit he put in his corrected it.
> He also described in detail the firing of the 105 artillary piece (7 of
> them to a battery)...from the aim stake to the charge 5 and fire for
> effect bit and said at night that you got used to them going off...but
> when you heard charge 1 and fire for effect...you immediately started
> rolling up your bed roll and prepared to get out of there...cause the
> enemy was about to overrun you. He then went on to tell about a small
> plane that the enemy used at night (had a GI name for it) which looked
> for fires (cold in Korea) and would drop mortar shells on you. Said one
> of the guys on a halftrack with quad 50's on it trained it on the moon
> and waited forever till the plane came in light of the moon, led him a
> little and shot him down. The rest of the guys were sure proud of
> him...but a couple of nights later...another one came. I told the
> girlfriend that he should write down his memories. Maybe it should be
> posted on the Korean War Project. One last comment on the truck that I
> bet Bobby Joe didn't know...Paul (Paul W. Mills) also told me that they
> would put a wire around a can of beer and put it down the gas tank to
> cool it...sounds crude...but must have worked for them. Thanks for the
> band space. Fred Martin
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