SEAFIRE

We had a large grass fire yesterday and 2nd and 3rd gear in our M35A2 W/W stopped working, 1st, 4th, and 5th & Reverse work just fine. We were able to dump the water tank and limp it back to the fire station using the remaining gears and the low/high range.

2 years ago we swapped out the tranny in our other 1968 M35A2 WO/W with no problems, but it didn't have a winch.
We called the Texas Forest Service and they are going to try and find another tranny in the boneyard in Lufkin and get it down to us in a couple of weeks, but it will be without the PTO for the winch.

Question is. we still have the bad tranny we pulled out of the other truck. Can we rob some parts and fix 2nd and 3rd in our existing tranny? It's getting real dry now and with the grass fires starting up again we'd like to get the truck back in service soon if we could.

Or do we need to wait on the other tranny the Forest Service is going to try and find and swap over the PTO when we get it? We've never messed with the PTO yet as our W/W is the first M35 we've ever had with a winch, all the other M35's we've had over the years were all WO/W.
We're lucky to have 2 volunteer firefighters who are diesel mechanics in their "real" jobs, and have kept our fluids topped off and done a lot of work in their free time to keep our M35's running, we've just never messed with the PTO on the tranny before, or taken a tranny apart.

Thanks in advance for any help

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Seadrift Volunteer Fire Department
Seadrift, Texas

1968 AM General M35A2 WO/W
1968 AM General M35A2 W/W

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