PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-705
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 705
AUGUST 2011
14
PS 705
AUG 11
15
PS 705
AUG 11
Dear Half-Mast,
We need the NSNs for the cargo boxes on M1101 and M1102 light
tactical trailers. How do we get them?
SFC H.E.P.
Dear Sergeant H.E.P.,
This is a popular question! TACOM LCMC tells us that there aren’t any NSNs.
Here’s why:
You can get a new cargo box for $4,700 plus shipping and handling. A phone
call to Kevin Mulrenin of Silver Eagle Manufacturing, (800) 547-6792, gets you
help with this. His email is:
kevin.mulrenin@silvereaglemfg.com
But listen. The cargo box is anchored to the frame using “huck” rivets. (It’s not
bolted down to the frame like the old M101-series trailers of the past.)
Now here’s where it gets interesting. Got your calculator handy? If your unit
doesn’t have a huck rivet gun, getting one will set you back $3,500 on top of the
cost of the cargo box. That’s at least an $8,200 repair job! A new trailer costs
$8,900 and the current MEL for the trailer is 65%.
So you’ll have to get a new trailer if you don’t have a huck rivet gun. If you do
have one, it’ll take two Soldiers two days to do the repair job.
I hope the drivers in your unit aren’t turning too quickly while hauling these
trailers. That could roll over or jack-knife the trailer. Trailers with extensive
damage should be coded out as Code H and sent to the bone yard for scrap.
Contact Mark Worden at TACOM LCMC if you need more help.
He’s at (248) 588-9335 and
mark.worden@conus.army.mil
Tell him Half-Mast sent you.
Vehicle System
Item
NSN
M871/A1/A2
M871A3
Tire/Wheel assembly
(one-piece/radial, stud piloted)
Down parts:
Radial tire
Wheel (one piece)
Tire valve
Tire/wheel assembly
(one-piece/radial-hub piloted)
for semitrailers with
70R x 22.5-inch tires
Down parts:
Wheel
Radial tire
Tire, valve
Cap, valve
M871R/A1R/A2R
Tire/wheel assembly
(one-piece/radial-hub piloted)
for semitrailers with
11R x 22.5-inch tires
Down parts:
Radial tire
Wheel
Tire, valve
Cap, valve
Replacement Cargo Box?
M871-Series Semitrailers…
Helpful Tire Information
M1101/M1102
Trailers…
Replacement Cargo Box?
here’s a list of
tire and wheel
assemblies
for me and my
family!
keep it handy
until these nsns
are added to
the technical
manuals.
by the way,
split-rim
assemblies
are becom-
ing a thing
of the past
with these
semitrail-
ers—they’re
being
removed
from the
supply
system.
remember
to
never
mix
bias tires
and radial
tires on
the same
trailer.
looks like we need a new
m1101 trailer cargo Box.
what’s the
nsn for one
of these
things?
he won’t
know because
I don’t have
one.
you should
write half-
mast. he’ll
know what
to do!
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