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Yes sir, Dec 1985 to around mid-1988; then off to 29 Palms for a year, and finally to North Carolina for my last 3 years. C Company, 3rd Platoon. I did spend my last 6 months or so at Las Flores in A Company, HQ Platoon, as an AVLB Instructor (got to go to Ft Leonard Wood, MO, to learn about...

I've been doing a little research myself; I believe that the extra hoses from the exhaust back to the air filter boxes are an overpressure system to keep water out of the air boxes (air filters) while fording deep water...similar in concept to the fording valve on USMC Deuces to keep water from...

Yes sir, good advice there. Here's a couple of drawings I made up to illustrate the recommended positioning while slave starting armored/tracked vehicles:

The torsion bar may well be clocked incorrectly; the TMs should show the proper procedure to ensure that the torsion bar is clocked properly (there should be some tic marks to line up in road wheel arm housing). To remove the torsion bar, remove the inspection cover on the opposite side, and...

One note for safety's sake, if you need to slave start (jump start) any armored vehicles, please do NOT place them nose-to-nose...place them 90-degrees opposed (as in an L-shape, or right-angles to each other). If one jumps into gear, you need to allow yourself an escape route if one vehicle...

I have to say at the moment, that I don't recall those at all....Rustystud might have a better idea, he was also at Camp Pendleton as a Motor-T mechanic around the same time I was. Sorry Will!

Hmmm I've never been able to figure out the USMC registration numbers...perhaps there's someone else on here who can enlighten us on those. Typically the 5-digit registration number would be stencilled on each side sponson box. The letter and double-digit numbers denote the company (USMC tank...

That's the beauty of USMC vehicles; they spend a lot of time fording through salt water, and the majority of their lives at bases near the coastline. 29 Palms exempted of course.

Since it's a former USMC tank, were there any markings or insignia on it? I was a tanker in the 1st Tank Battalion (Camp Pendleton) in C Co, 3rd Platoon; then A Co. for AVLBs back in the 1980s. It seems to have the woodland camo job the 1st Tanks had; I remember the little unit at 29 Palms...

When reinstalling the power pack, be VERY CAREFUL not to puncture the fuel tanks alongside the hull...it is easy to do (don't ask me how I know.... :roll: ) I have a sheared drive gear somewhere in my shop just like the one in pics #5 & #6.....it can happen. The hardest part of pulling &...

What, no M88 to use?!?