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The hood number is suposed to follow the truck for its life. Having said that, I do not remember ever seing a hood number. Might be I just never noticed. I will look at a few old pictures and see.
When equipment becomes old, outdated or its going to be replaced, the military has a system on how much to spend on that equipment. Its called MEL. Maintenance Expenditure Limit. The MEL chart lists the equipment model, year built, and need for the equipment. At the end of its life, it can...
If you go to TM 9-2320-211-10, you will notice that on page (PDF reader page #) 8, it lists the M51 truck. It has 6 different NSN's. 2 for the M51, (basic truck). 2 for for the M51A1 and the last 2 are for the M51A2. They show you the NSN for with winch and without winch.
When you look, for...
Which means that while in POMCUS, they added the seat belts OR this truck was more active than I know.
They just added seat belts. It was forever and a day in POMCUS.
If you look at the front of the TM's, this NSN will be on the cover. This NSN is for YOUR truck. There could be trucks that LOOK like yours, but are somehow different. Like W/OW. With Out Winch. So it will have a different NSN. It will still be a M51A2, but its model number would be M51A2 W/OW...
This is what I found when I checked the NSN
CYLINDER QUANTITY
6
BATTERY QUANTITY
2
WHEEL QUANTITY
6
DRIVE WHEEL QUANTITY
6
ENGINE/MOTOR MANUFACTURER CODE AND MODEL NUMBER
19207 LDS465-1A
PRIME MOVER TYPE
DIESEL ENGINE
ENGINE BRAKE HORSEPOWER
210
ENGINE HORSEPOWER...
The bar code is 99751024. This looks like a POMCUS storage Number.
Then there is a number 2320000559263. This is the NSN.
The number is 02320200351, with the date 01.31.91. Maybe the first zero is not part of the number, unclear. This is the MWO number. The zero? Not sure. 2320 means its a...
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