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    Learn from Chucky..., FMTV cab support tool

    The top cannot move. The back wall of the cab comes down past the floor of the engine tunnel forming an inverted V when the cab is raised, to push any brace up into… onced pushed up into the V It locks quite well, had this one a little tight, was a little work to get it back out…
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    Learn from Chucky..., FMTV cab support tool

    Bracing the cab is not really rocket surgury. If it will still raise pump it over the balance point and put a stick in there. On level ground with the cylinder fully extended you can disconnect any hydraulic line you wish as the cab is hanging mechanically on the fully extended cab lift...
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    Learn from Chucky..., FMTV cab support tool

    The few times I have had that strap fully extended, there was no action required to lower the cab, it simply folded as i started pumping the cab back over the balance point(no restraint whatsoever)… there is nothing in the op manual about any form of locking mechanism on these trucks, just the...
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    Learn from Chucky..., FMTV cab support tool

    Thats not an up lock, the only “lock“on this cabs motion is hydraulic, that and the raised position is typically past the balance point… That is a folding “keep the cab from toppling off the front of the truck if the cylinder or mount fail, strap” they do not normally fully extend as seen in...
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    Learn from Chucky..., FMTV cab support tool

    Unless of course it is the cylinder and rod end where you must be working. Raise the cab just short of the balance point, take a measurement from the top rear engine lift bracket to the top rear of the engine tunnel on the cab. Since the rear of the cab comes down past the top of the tunnel...
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