Salvaged m-211
Something about that round switch attached to the steering wheel that makes me twitch. I'll buy the next round of steak and potatoes if you can get a peak at the numbers stamped into the side of the frame behind the wheel.
I know a guy that drilled wells with an M135 pole setting, auger style truck. I'll show him the pictures and I'm thinking he'll remember the big winch on the front of the bobbed deuce and some type of 'air switch' near the wheel.
Appreciate the pictures, I'll need council and medication but I'll never look at a slightly beat M135 the same way again.
The "round thing" next to the steering wheel, is the 24v, military version of today's trailer brake controller. With all that was smashed on the cab, that survived intact. I wondered about it too, and once removed saw the various settings you could select. I'll take some detailed pictures and post again. NOTE...only after I salvaged virtually every screw, nut and bolt from this corpse (sorry), I regretted I had cut the cab apart to get to the interior. It had been "handled" by a pulp loader, (no less than 5 times!) and was the reason for the condition. A tag on the dash said"red light is on when stabilizers are down"..This is what clued me into thinking it was possibly a pole setter...When I removed the fuel pump from the tank, and stripped it, I found the brushes completely gone, and then knew what caused the scrapping.A rag was stuffed into the intake, so the owner thought he had a carb problem, and gave up after not finding parts, or was offered to sell the winch and other items, finally disposing the rest for scrap..Oh, and the frame number starts off as 1211.......but there is no plate on the dash.......
I will NEVER again cut a cab apart no matter how mangled it is, because only after, I came to see how you can still salvage more than you think just unbolting everything possible. Those cabs were meant to be rebuilt piece by piece, and you can pound it all back into shape if only to use as a future pattern. SO PLEASE, think before you cut!!!!