From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 08:33:08 PST
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From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 CUCV steering / ign switch problem
> Now here's some info that might have come right in time. Are the CUCV
trucks
> all keyed alike? I have a 1984 M1009 that the steering column is
destroyed.
> It has the original lock cylinder. I was about to break it but now I might
save
> it. Any info on this helps a bunch!
They're a Chevy fleet key common to all the CUCVs, be they pickups or
Blazers or whatever. With a fleet key, the same 'round' key that opens your
doors also operates your ignition, where the standard GM vehicles have a
round key for the doors, and a square one for the ignition alone. The good
thing about the CUCV fleet key is that you can keep one in your pocket and
test-start any likely looking ones at GL (if they'll let you), but the bad
thing about them is that any GI who kept the keys from his turn-in truck can
walk out into the Piggly Wiggly parking-lot and steal yours.
Some units changed their ignitions out with uniquely keyed "square" ones.
So far the only ones I've come across like this have been a couple of USAF
vehicles brought back from Germany, but there might be more out there.
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