PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-673
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 673
DECEMBER 2008
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PS 673
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PS 673
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Dear Half-Mast,
My unit recently received logbook-sized HMMWV operator’s manuals,
TM 9-2320-280-10, with only three holes punched. In the past,
logbook-sized TMs were punched with five holes.
With five holes, the TMs could be placed in a binder made for logbooks or
in one for full-sized manuals. Logbooks with only three holes won’t fit in the
logbook-sized binders.
We had two solutions to fix this problem. We could either take our TM
apart and punch the missing holes to make it fit the log binder, a time issue.
Or we could buy new binders that fit the logbooks with three holes, a
money issue.
To avoid having to do this in the future, can we just get the TMs with five
holes punched?
SGT T.K.D.
•
Push the bar sideways so that the hook
end moves four to six inches.
•
Release the pressure on the crowbar or
pinch bar.
•
If the torque rod returns to its original
position, keep using it. If it doesn’t,
replace it.
•
Place the flat end of a 3-ft crowbar
or pinch bar between the torque rod
and the mounting bracket.
Dear Sergeant N.G.,
Glad to help. The NSN you used to get the rear seat clamp has been replaced with
NSN 5340-01-408-8508. You should see this NSN in a future TM update. Make a
note until that happens.
Dear Half-Mast,
My Army National Guard unit has a few HMMWVs with broken rear seat
clamps. I tried to order replacements using NSN 5340-01-197-1294, but
FED LOG shows that item as discontinued. What’s a good replacement?
SGT N.G.
Dear Sergeant T.K.D.,
It’s possible. What you experienced happened because the Army decided to save
money by punching only three holes in your TMs.
A unit can’t order a TM with Fve holes, but the managing command can request
more holes on their DA ±orm 260,
Request for Publishing.
The Army Publishing
Directorate will honor their request. But this won’t happen automatically.
Submit a DA ±orm 2028,
Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank
Forms,
requesting the Fve holes that you need in your TM and changes. Then the
command can request those extra two holes for future prints.
Hole Hassle
2
1
/
2
-, 5-ton Trucks…
Torque
Rod
Check
Hole Hassle
Replacement Seat Clamp Found
HMMWVs…
here’s how to
tell if a rod is
good to go…
longer lasting parts
make our lives easier.
that goes for the torque
rods on your 2 1/2- and
5-ton trucks, too.
the tm says any
separation or
cracking calls for
a new torque rod.
but it’s not how
the rod looks, it’s
how it works.
you mean
I’ve got
punch new
holes in
all
of these?
Use crow-
bar to check
torque rod
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