5 ton tanker

[1ton]

What is the mil designation of the 5 ton tanker truck. M54 or M814 series.

 

[Desert Rat]

Depends upon what year it was built.

 

[1ton]

i guess i wasn't clear i ment the sig for the either the M54 series or the M81? series

 

[Desert Rat]

The M54 series is an older series than the M814 or M819 series. Both have a tanker option. Are you wanting the M number for the tanker option for either series? Remember, there are two different tanker options. The first is a full semi set-up being most common. The less common is putting a tank in the back of an M54 or M814 or M819. If it's the tractor-tanker set up, then the nomenclature doesn't change. If the latter, I do not know the M series number for that option.

 

[Elwenil]

I'm not sure there was a seperate 5 ton model. I can find about 10 different 2.5 ton models of fuel and water tankers, but no 5 tons at all. Plenty of trailer tankers, and then it jumps to the GOER and HEMMT models.

 

[BKubu]

I once saw a water tanker mounted on an M809 chassis, but I never saw the dataplate to check to see if it had its own M #. I have never seen a 5 fuel truck, except for cargo trucks with the fuel cells and reel assembly in the bed.

 

[Desert Rat]

Yeah, what Bkubu said, that's what I mean.

 

[73m819]

you cant put a tank on the back of a m819 ,its a tractor wrecker and you only can pull a low bed or a flat rack because the wrecker boom extends over the rear of the truck

 

[RAT]

The M39 Series trucks, M54 is the cargo designation in that family, did not have a tanker version, so ther is no M number, based on this it is safe to assume that the 800 series did not have a tanker either.

Hope this helps.

 

[1ton]

oh i was wondering b/c i've been told that the tanker models had two ptos and the possibity of a NHC 250 would be nice, but i guess it would make since not to have a heavier truck doing the same job the 2.5 could do.

 

[ICEMAN71]

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