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If your vin number on your truck has the 3rd digit as a "B" then your truck started life as a M1031 which was a C&C, no bed, thus the "conversion" into a M1028a1. One of my M1028a2s has a "C" as the 3rd digit, so apparently there were M1028a1s that WEREN'T converted, yours and mine were though.
The M1028FF Truck, Firefighting (also referred to as the M1028FF Twin Agent Unit or TAU) is an M1028 vehicle with a dry chemical fire extinguisher NSN 4210-01-205-2246 mounted in the body. NSN 4210-01-259-4609,
Don't think this set up was pto driven...
Just noticed today that it got a new engine in 2005, sticker still on a nice clean engine, part # 2815-01-278-5725.
Just don't have time to play with this one yet . . .
Wives wear down eventually. I've been buyting/swapping/fixing trucks for 35 years, married for 23, God bless her, we all have our faults lol. NICE score btw.
Here is another point to ponder. I have 3 M1028a2s, 2 were converted from trucks with "B"s (M1031s) and one has the "C" as the 3rd digit in the serial number, which means it wasn't converted from a truck that was originally a cab & chassis. . So, I take it that not all M1028a1s were converted...
Not yet, my high school age son is going to start driving the M1028a1 to school every day from now on. We have 5 drivers in this household, but not 5 cars, my daily driver other than my work truck has now become the little dump. None of the CUCV duallys are road ready yet but one should be by...
From the pics it looks like you got one with a pretty nice rust free body. It always amazes me how one of the doors always seems to get backed into or something. Good Luck with it!
Sanding down my ex fire truck C&C 86 K30 dually diesel I found US ARMY CN 0265 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY on the passenger door and the driver door has a M1009 data tag on the inside. Not a CUCV but was apparently right there with some.