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The year 2020. And after several days searching I give up trying to find it here and ask for help. Finally decided my truck, which the ID tags say is 1973 (overhauled) but hood and SN makes clear is 1965, will be painted in the correct 1965 paint color OD 24087 with white lettering and star...

I am getting ready to start do some body work. More and more hidden corners show that the original color was OD # 24087. The first repaint job was probably done in 1973, in a darker green, probably the # 34079 Forest Green. Maybe here you see the original OD with the faded forest...

Just take everything apart and start rebuild it, looks like a nice project. A transmission for $ 275 even not perfect does not sound bad, but then, I am used to crazy European prizes.

Not really, I had a problem with the M51A2 steering as well. In the end, I combined two old steering gear boxes to get the stuff back to work. If you put everything back as was, it should work good automatically. And the usual advice, check what you are doing against the TMS Mainly the...

Already did so. Want to switch it for my M51A2? All these nice trucks and everybody is looking at the piece of rust.

IN :jumpin:👍

I think I will just re-install the rear output shaft between the PTO and the pump, but leave the link between control box and rear shifter staff out (not connected). Then start the engine, with everything in neutral, and let Soldier B push the the rear shifter shaft into "engage" to ge tthe pump...

Yeah, I found that out this morning as well and mentioned it in the other thread already. My bad. Which leaves me with the last problem. Same picture as in my post 5 above in this thread. The Dump Control Lever in the cabin is in upright neutral position. You can see the connector rod...

OK, my bad. I had all shafts disconnected from the PTO and the engine running. And yes, off course it works how it should. Don't know where I got the idea from that the winch lever also operated the dump. Probably because the PTO is dual, and the winch shifter and the rear shifter shaft are...

Which still leaves the question which positions the PTO control lever has in the dump. By feeling in my 1965 M51A2 (overhauled completely in 1973), it feels like only three: Forward down: rear output shaft turning Neutral: standing about 60 degrees up, the lever can be locked in this position...

Maybe they have the dual PTO to drive a pump for the water at the middle or the back of the truck. My M51 (5-ton) has a dual and I am now fighting with it. I think only wreckers have rear winches.

I have been looking through TMs and threads quite a lot now, but I am missing something. According the operating instructions, with everything in neutral put, unlock the winch control lever and put the winch control lever in position Low or High, or even more speed levels in between. No...

Finally found a good linkage scheme for the M51. TM 9-2320-211-20-2-2 page 385 - 368 Just will put it here to make it easier ... That section has good description as well on page 392 and 394. Seeing the pic on page 392, it looks that my dump control lever is going as far as it should; I...

Safety latch is open; you can see it laying away from the lever, still wet from several treatments of WD40 Don't forget, the dump truck PTO lever works different from the standard cargo versions. THe dump truck has an up position for front winch and down position to engage the hoist hydraulic...

This is as far forward - down position I can get the dump bed control lever. The PTO attached to the transmission. Turned out that the winch really was completely frozen. I removed the front power shaft to the winch, but still could not get the winch side output (top red arrow) free and the...

Correct. But per CARNAC and Dave Dolyle, the accompanying paperwork not always does so. Neither CARNAC nor US Military historians could find more data on the truck as mentioned above, leaving the gaps unexplained. The hood number can still be seen vaguely on the hood when I bought the...

Did the army kept track of this? Presumably the hood number follows the truck throughout its life, but both CARNAC and Dave Doyle mention that keeping track left something to be desired.

How do you test it? The lever on the controller that links to the rear shifter shaft can be moved forward and backwards some space, but it does not feel like its shifting something, just free space. Then it "clacks" against a stop, at least that how it feels when moved by hand. The one linked...

What I mean with the more active, it might not have been in POMCUS all the time but active in another unit here in Europe. According the owner who bought it as surplus, it already had a shabby look, a serious twisted head rack on the dump bed and a messed up winch. When they bought it, it had...

I know they are not active when in POMCUS. The only thing is, the history of my truck is unclear. Almost certainly, it was made in 1965, based upon the sequence of serial numbers and hood numbers. However, the truck was overhauled in 1973, and its history can be traced only from 1973 to 1986 as...