PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-668

PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly

ISSUE 668

JULY 2008
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The receptacle faces straight
up. With a leaky or missing cap,
the receptacle Flls up when it
rains or when you wash your
carrier.
Water corrodes the receptacle’s
metal contacts. It may not carry
current the next time you need
to slave start a dead vehicle or
hook up the 4.2-KW or 5-KW
generator.
If the dust cap on your carrier is damaged or missing, get your mechanic to replace
it with NSN 5340-01-059-0114. That NSN includes the 6-in attachment cord, but not
the screw, NSN 5305-00-984-6212, lock washer, NSN 5310-00-045-3296, and flat
washer, NSN 5310-00-014-5850, needed to mount the cap.
Until the new cap comes in, cover the receptacle with a plastic bag and a
rubber band.
Those tow bars and cables are completely useless if you can’t get them loose from
the on-vehicle stowage clamps, though. The clamps that hold the tow bars and cables
in place will rust up if you ignore them. Then you either can’t get the clamp open or
the clamp bolt shears off.
To keep that from hap-
pening, give the clamp hinge,
bolt and nut a few squirts of
general purpose preservative
lubricating
oil
(PLS)
once
a month. Get a quart of PLS
or a gallon with NSN 9150-
00-231-9062.
M577-, M1068-Series Command Post Carrier…
NATO Cap Flap
M88A1
Recovery
Vehicle…
Keep the Rust Off
the nato slave
receptacle on your
command post carrier
is supposed to carry
current, not water.
but water is
what you get
if the dust
cap is cracked
or missing.
Cracked or missing cap allows
water to corrode receptacle
this rain wouldn’t
be such a big deal
if I had a cap on
my nato slave
receptacle!
two of the most important
sets of equipment on your
m88a1 are the tow bars
and tow cables.
after all, it’s not much of
a recovery vehicle if you
can’t do any recovering.
A few drops
of PLS here…
…and here will
keep rust at bay
whaddaya
mean you
can’t
give
me a tow?
we can’t get
the tow bar
loose!
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