What's This Receptacle For?

[cbvet]

While putting the winter grill cover on my M35A2, I noticed a small receptacle by the right headlight. Facing the truck, it is above & to the right of the headlight. It has a spring-loaded cover & a single wire going directly to the battery +terminal.
What's it for?
I know, somebody's going to respond with that "worthless without pictures" thing. That would mean I would have to take the grill cover back off, find the camera, find some batteries, take a picture, find the cord that hooks the camera to the computer, & then interrupt my wife while she's cutting firewood so she can download, etc. No way!
Eric

 

[Recovry4x4]

RE: What

I would think it was a quick connect battery charger. Lots of FDs have these on their trucks.

 

[Stretch44875]

Wait a sec.. the wife is cutting firewood? My wife is scared of the lawn mower, much less a chainsaw!

 

[cranetruck]

What gauge wire? If it's skinny, then it's probably like Kenny says, for a charger, if it's heavy it's providing power for something.

 

[clinto]

Sorry Eric, I just couldn't help myself..............................

 

[Massm35a2]

I think I have seen something in the TM about that receptacle for using the swingfire heater to preheat the engine compartment.

 

[cbvet]

Swingfire heater? When I got the truck from Minnesota, the guy told me about a heater that connected to the large pipe below the right headlight, to warm the engine, batteries, etc. The receptacle would be a logical place to power it from I suppose. Never seen the heater.
And yes Stretch, my wife cuts firewood, & runs the bush hog, & mows the grass, & OH OH! I better get some coffee & go outside! She's running the log splitter & I need to make sure she's stacking the wood properly.........
Eric

 

[Flatlander]

Could I send my wife up for some training? Wait a minute, that would require me actually removing her from the mall...

 

[jasonjc]

Does she have any sisters???????

 

[FreightTrain]

Do you actually trust a woman to opperate heavy equipment like that......what happens when you piss her off REALLY BAD!Not conducive to a man's long heathy life!

 

[willysmd]

Do you actually trust a woman to opperate heavy equipment like that......what happens when you piss her off REALLY BAD!Not conducive to a man's long heathy life!

That BOBBIT geezer springs to mind

 

[Towman2277]

Seen the movie Fargo??? hee...hee...hee....You go Eric!! You got it made man!! You tell me where to send the enrollment fee and directions for my wife to come to your training school.....i'll pay the airfare!!

 

[Massm35a2]

Here is a pic of the page in the TM,

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&type=file&func=get&tid=1&fid=file&pid=15

page 278

 

[cbvet]

Massm,
Thanks for the picture. I had no idea what it looked like. I sincerely hope I'll never need one here in Indiana!
Regarding my wife:
Flatlander- My wife HATES to shop. Hits a mall about once a year.
Jason- She has one sister. Married. Cuts firewood & dresses-out dear. When she's not at work of course.
Freight Train & Willysmd- Wife assists me with Police firearms training. She's a very good shot. With luck she'll just kill me.
Towman- It's not training. Just make sure you tell her you're going to by her her OWN big green truck someday & she will be happy to do anything to keep YOU happy.
Eric

 

[wreckerman893]

That BOBBIT geezer springs to mind

An interesting aside to the whole Bobbit saga. When Lorraina Bobbit threw the offending organ from her car it struck a female pedestrian in the face. She later sued Lorraina claiming that after the incident she became "cockeyed".

Wreckermans ideal woman: A deaf, dumb, blind, large busted, oversexed redhead that owns a MV junkyard

 

[cbvet]

Wreckerman you're a pig!
You'd fit in well around here.
Eric

 

[wreckerman893]

OINK, OINK, OINK
I may have to get old but I don't have to grow up.

 

[steelsoldiers]

An interesting aside to the whole Bobbit saga. When Lorraina Bobbit threw the offending organ from her car it struck a female pedestrian in the face. She later sued Lorraina claiming that after the incident she became "cockeyed". Shocked

Wreckermans ideal woman: A deaf, dumb, blind, large busted, oversexed redhead that owns a MV junkyard Thumbs Up Laughing

That's too funny wreckerman!! I gotta store that "cockeyed" thing away some where for later use.

Cool little gadget on your deuce cbvet. Now you just need to pick up a swingfire heater. I have seen them for around $100 on the Swiss Army Vehicles site.

 

[wreckerman893]

To quote the late Jimmy Durante "hot cha cha cha, I godda' million of um'".

I've always found that if you don't have a lot of common sense a good sense of humor is the next best thing.

 

[steelsoldiers]

We need you around the campfire at Haspin next year!