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If you own the pictured "wet pull" it is much more valuable in one piece than to disassemble and sell bits and pieces.

The troops HATED those things, on road marches they would porpoise so bad.

GOER? It was 1970s though.

Is your alternator overcharging? Remember that failure mode I mentioned in your diagnostics thread. Could be cooking your battery if you didn't notice the volt meter pegged out.

Huh? Are we talking about the Garwood 10,000 lb winch? That thing works like a charm and isn't dangerous at all if you know what you are doing. Electric winches suck, period. They sucked on HMMWVs, sucked on MRAPS, sucked on JLTVs.

No. The number is meaningless just like a license plate on a car. Just like on a car, the letters and numbers increase as registration numbers are issued. For example, the HMMWV manufactured after yours would be NG4AZW. Now older registration number systems had embedded meaning, like the...

The metal tag is for some kind of rustproofing that was applied in 1985. Looks like it gave up the ghost.

Yes the registration number inside the footwell is (should be) the same as the registration number stamped on the main data plate or in twisted60's case, his truck's own dog tag.

Guyfang, super interesting info I never knew. One correction though, NG2YK7 is the US Army registration number and NG does NOT stand for National Guard. NG is similar to the first letters of a civilian license plate.

Headquarters, headquarters brigade 227th field artillery brigade (best guess)

When your serial number is missing, find the closest listing and add the difference in serial numbers to the registration number for the listing you found. Sorry very few unit listings are available. Check your bumpers for numbers and letters and post pictures, usually someone here can decode...

Take a look at the A2 PDF, there is BMY1018 with USMC registration 315414 which makes your findings accurate. Shows to be a 1966. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/carnacs-historical-vin-info-thread.193055/page-2

Yes you are correct your truck started life with 6602 gas power in 1952. REGNO is registration number, that is the number that was painted on the hood, yours should be 5161327 i think.

If this rig were mine I would remove the box and sell it on Craigslist to someone as a storage box, then cut the frame extension off and put a M35A2 bed on it, making it back into a M211.

I would reach out to the GPA MVHS club and ask them what the story is with this truck. website: http://gpamvhs.org/v2/ I hate to pee in your cheerios but I really think a club member attached that CPN-4 radar van trailer to the M211 chassis to make a camper back in the 80s/90's. Never in...

115 CSH is Combat Support Hospital at Ft Polk. You have a Cajun truck there.

Can you tell us how you figured out this truck is a supply mech truck for a radar unit.

If your engine is GM then I wouldn't mess with it. If it's GEP then get the newest US cast heads you can find. Since you have it apart, now is a good time to put the turbo heads on it.

i wouldn't buy that for a 5 ton. The worm shaft probably won't have the proper machining to receive the winch driveshaft.

Good advice. Had to chuckle a little about your example of "all lights not working", with our trucks it happens a lot that the alternator voltage regulator fails with very high voltage and blows out all light bulbs leading to very confused techs.