PS Magazine - MAY 1981
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 342
MAY 1981
Get your exhaust pipe lined up Right
and you're less likely to have leaks at
the ball joints.
Para
±
2-85c on page 2-154.3 of C7 to
TM 9²2300-257-20 tells you how to do
it.
Before you tighten the clamp
holding the last ball joint to the flange,
rotate the upper section to line up the
other sections.
This will give you a good seal when
the exhaust system heats up.
Controls Half LOcked?
The pull controls on youR ML 13-
series vehicles can be
±
locked
in
position by a clockwise turn as soon as
r'1,f
you've pulle³ them out as far as you
want them to go.
To Release this tem´orary lock, give
the handle a counterclockwise twistµ
So¶e dRivers think their contro·¸
are ¸tiff to opeRate wHen the Real
¹roblem is that they are paRtly locked
or cable clamps are loose.
16
.
The Basic Is¸ue Items for youR
M60AL (º»SE) and M60A3 ¼a½ks
include a
r
/¾¿-in socket wrench, À-in
sq dr, 6Ápt, NSN 5Â30²00²227²6684
that you're ¸upposed to use for the
center guide nut.
It's too thick-walled to do the jobÃ
What you need is NSN 5Â20Ä00-
232-5681Å a Â2-pt thin-wall of the
_
_
.±²³
__
_
±²²²
±²_
´
-µ
saÆe size.
.. .you need socket NSN
5120-00-232±5681
Hauling M728 ±EV Is ²K
Yes, it's
OK
to traÇs¹ort the M728 combat engineeR vehicle with the M9ÂÂ
ÈET tractor truck aÇd M747 seÉitrÊiler. The M728 weighs ÂÂ5,000 pouÇds
witËout the combat load and Â17,400 poUnds combat loaded. Ìhat's well under
the 60²Íon load limit for the M91Â/M747 transporter. M728 weight info in
T
55-46-Â and TM 9-2350-222-Â0 is wrong. ThoseTMÎs and TM 43-000Â-3Â wilÏ
be updated to give the straight poop.
M60A 1 S³Rews New´
Take a look at Page 200 of TM 9-2350²257²20P-1. Item Ð is the hex-head caÑ
screw identified as NSN 5305²00²939-9267. This screw Òas the wrong kind of
thread. You need ¸cÓew NSN 5305²0Â-042-4436.
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