PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-742
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 742
SEPTEMBER 2014
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onstuction equipment is vital to the Army’s
efforts at home and abroad. Equipment varies,
two things are consistent: the men and women
who are operators and mechanics and the need for
Preventive Maintenance! Something specific to this
illustration??
one of the
purposes of
these splash
pages as we see
‘em is to show
the equipment
running properly
and effectively
because of pMCS!
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rewmen, your Bradley’s idler wheels work hard to keep you and your vehicle
rolling along on the mission. But you gotta take care of those idler wheels if you
don’t want one going idle at the worst possible time.
Hard driving in the Feld can loosen the idler wheel nuts. And once one nut loosens,
it puts pressure on the other nuts. Before you know it, the wheel is wobbling and can
even break loose. The last thing you want to see is an idler wheel rolling away from
your vehicle!
But you can make sure the idler wheels stay on the job with a little PM diligence.
Check the idler wheel nuts after every operation. Look for a shiny area under the
nut where it has rubbed against the wheel. Tell your mechanic if you spot any. He’ll
replace loose nuts with NSN 5310-00-175-2710 and torque them to 170-200 lb-ft.
If you spot any loose nuts while you’re in the Feld, go ahead and tighten them. Just
make sure you mark which nuts were loose so your mechanic can replace them when
you get back to the motor pool.
M2/M3-Series Bradley…
Idler
wheel
nuts can
loosen
and
cause
wheel
to
wobble
or break
loose
hey, you can’t
blame
ME
for
breaking away.
they shoulda
kePt my nuts
tight!
if you want your vehicle
to last the entire fight,
preventive maintenance will
help you sleep at night.
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his
section covers
Bradleys, MLRS,
M1-tanks, and
M119 towed
howitzers.
Look for shiny area
under nut
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