Hi all,
Still working on getting my rig squared away. There's a couple contact maintenance truck-specific parts that have me scratching my head and I need to look at another M1031 to figure out. If somebody could snap a couple picture of these parts (or manage to find pictures from the TM) it would be a *huge* help.
My 1031 had the cylinder racks removed before I got it. I got another Oxygen bottle mount (horizontal one over generator) from a SS member and my 250 cubic foot O2 bottle fits perfectly, so that problem is solved. But.... I'm still not sure how the Acetylene cylinder (vertical mount) was originally mounted in the right forward compartment. Does anyone have a picture of the bracket and/or mounting arrangement that was originally installed? Did the Army use 145 cubic foot acteylene cylinders? Is it a "hard mount" like the O2 cylinder rack or did they just use ratchet straps?
The PTO lever has a microswitch mounted under the transmission tunnel that works (very unreliably) as a neutral safety. A pic of how it's supposed to look installed would be a big help. Mine is a bit mangled. I'm just trying to figure out if the arm is supposed to be bent a certain way, or my switch got jammed up and it bent the lever (most likely). I'm tempted to just bypass the stupid switch because it seems like a very delicate/failure prone design and I'm the only one who uses the pto so it doesn't have to be "GI proofed" (I'm not going to try to engage the pto unless the T-case is in neutral)
If anyone can help, thanks in advance. The beer's on me next time you visit Atlanta.
-Matt
Still working on getting my rig squared away. There's a couple contact maintenance truck-specific parts that have me scratching my head and I need to look at another M1031 to figure out. If somebody could snap a couple picture of these parts (or manage to find pictures from the TM) it would be a *huge* help.
My 1031 had the cylinder racks removed before I got it. I got another Oxygen bottle mount (horizontal one over generator) from a SS member and my 250 cubic foot O2 bottle fits perfectly, so that problem is solved. But.... I'm still not sure how the Acetylene cylinder (vertical mount) was originally mounted in the right forward compartment. Does anyone have a picture of the bracket and/or mounting arrangement that was originally installed? Did the Army use 145 cubic foot acteylene cylinders? Is it a "hard mount" like the O2 cylinder rack or did they just use ratchet straps?
The PTO lever has a microswitch mounted under the transmission tunnel that works (very unreliably) as a neutral safety. A pic of how it's supposed to look installed would be a big help. Mine is a bit mangled. I'm just trying to figure out if the arm is supposed to be bent a certain way, or my switch got jammed up and it bent the lever (most likely). I'm tempted to just bypass the stupid switch because it seems like a very delicate/failure prone design and I'm the only one who uses the pto so it doesn't have to be "GI proofed" (I'm not going to try to engage the pto unless the T-case is in neutral)
If anyone can help, thanks in advance. The beer's on me next time you visit Atlanta.
-Matt