From: MV Don Low (MVdonlow@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 08:44:39 PST
Mine is not !
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 CUCV steering / ign switch problem
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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