PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-698
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 698
JANUARY 2011
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o you’ve just fnished lubing the right angle Fan drive on your Bradley. Job’s done,
right? Not iF you didn’t wipe oFF the excess grease.
Oh, c’mon, you’re probably thinking. What’s the big deal about a little dab oF
leFtover grease?
Well, in this case, a little dab’ll do it. When you start up your Bradley, the right
angle Fan drive starts spinning. That excess grease gets ±ung oFF the Fan drive and—
SPLAT!—right onto the lenses oF the fre suppression system sensor, NSN 6350-01-
430-7176.
With grease covering the
lenses, you’ll get a Fault on
the automatic fre extinguisher
system (A²ES) control panel.
And unless you know what’s
happened, good luck solving
that problem during trouble-
shooting! The sensor Faces the
right angle Fan drive, so you
can’t see the lenses unless you
use a mirror or crawl up on
the engine.
So save yourselF a bunch oF trouble. Take an extra second or two and wipe the
excess grease oFF the right angle Fan drive’s grease ftting.
D
rivers, rain and fording can result in a hull full of water in your M113A3. So how do you
drain it?
Some drivers take the easy way out and
use the bilge pumps. Just flip the bilge
pump switch, wait a few minutes and all
that water is gone.
But, did you stop to think that there
might be more than rainwater in the hull?
Stuff like oil, fuel, grease and antifreeze
mix with the water to create a nasty
cocktail of hazardous material.
And as soon as you flip the bilge pump
switch, all that gunk ends up on the
ground. You just became very unpopular
with the environmental folks!
The proper way to get rid of that liquid
is through the hull drain plugs. Just make
sure you do it back at the motor pool by the
oil/water separator at the wash rack. That
will take care of the HAZMAT problem.
‘Course, it’s always a good idea to keep
your vehicle tarped whenever possible.
That’ll keep a lot of the water out of the
hull in the first place.
Rear of vehicle
a little dab’ll do it
M113A3 FOV…
Get Water Out the
Right
Way
Leftover grease flies
off fan drive and
onto sensor lenses
here’s
mud
in
yer eye!
What
the heck
happened
to you?
Guess
I was
standing a
little too
close to
the bilge
pumps!
Drat!
I forgot
to clean the extra
grease off the right
angle fan drive lube
fitting again!
Flipping on bilge pumps clears out hull fast.
..
…but hull drain plugs are the
right
way to go
M2/M3-Series
Bradleys…
Front of vehicle
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