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Single Fuel Concept Testing (Army Logistics) CUCVs included

Tinstar

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Did anyone here have the issues with their assigned CUCVs in Desert Storm like mentioned in this article?

Wonder if this was some of the reason why CUCVs were phased out earlier than expected.
 

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My unit did not have any CUCVs that I can recall. I do remember our HMMWVs having stalling and hard hot start issues. The motor pool guys would add a quart of trans fluid about every other time we fueled up and that would smooth out the engine and fix the problems.
 

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I doubt it had much to do with the CUCV sell off most were way past needing a rebuild or reset, now that being said I think that is what should have been done I believe that the Chevrolet CUCV could have been rebuilt cheaper than buying new replacements and would have still been a good investment for what they were generally used for. If they had been up graded to 6.5 turbo and overdrive transmission they would be even better.
As to the one fuel program it still has flaws and has not been fully implemented. I think they can get by with JP8 but as they didn't use it overseas as was pointed out in the document it caused problems. If you set a standard then go outside of that standard you will have problems. They should be able to dictate what fuel they get as much as they buy anywhere in the world. Or they need to start making everything work with jet-A

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I was in Afghanistan last year and they were using only two fuels, albeit off the flight line. Standard gasoline was available, although they were really pushing to ween all entities off of it by 2017. The other fuel was some sort of diesel mix and I had thought it had been shifted to TS1.

I only saw one M1009 while I was there for over a year and that was at Bagram. I spoke with the guys using it and drove it for about a week (swapped my TATA for it). She was beat to ****, but she drove nice and was still running strong and she was always filled up at the fuel depot. So whatever fuel they were giving out was not effecting that CUCV.

Other than that, there were still several hummers left, but they were used mostly by coalition/ANP/ANA troops. The US was almost all shifted over to MRAPS and the like for combat operations. For everyday, around base transportation, we used lots of Landrovers, TATA pickups and a bunch of up-armored civilian made vehicles (the Mercedes G-Wagon was the best !!). All diesel, all used the fuel depot. I didn't hear of any fuel related issues and I smoked cigars and shot the stuff with the head vehicle guy for the theater weekly. We had conversations about fuels, the conversation to a single source, but no mention of high rates of failures (except for some buses).

That said, it was the government running it all and I watched them cut up brand new MRAPS because they didn't want to ship them back, so I guess 50 burned out engines needing replacement per month wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. But hey, what do I know.

Cheers. !
 

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Its interesting that the biggest consumer of Jet Fuel "JP" still hasn't got a position on its use in MOVs
 

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I thought it was funny that they installed Artic kits for trucks in the low desert.
I think they did that, from what I have read, because of the different lubrication requirements if the Arctic Kit is installed (upgraded seals?).
 
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