Onr of the problems I had noticed in the 80s when I worked on the Jeeps in service was that the Canadian manual covered all the Jeeps from the M38, the M38A1, and then had an added section for the M38A1Cdn2 and another for the M38A1CDN3.
If you went to the steering seciton for parts, and were not careful to look at the "used on" column, it was easy to end up with the skinny tie rods. All the Cdn2 and Cdn3 were the heavier ends. If the parts guy ordered the complete tie rod (2 ends, the tube and the clamps) as an assembly, we could put that on. But if they just ordered the skinny threaded end, we had to toss it.
Same thing would happen for the fuel tanks, and even the engines. I guess so many people ordered the wrong fuel tanks, they actually made up more M38 tanks in the 80s to fill the demands, even though they were the wrong tanks for the existing fleet. The flathead engines were still around to replace the WW2 engines in the older generator trailers.
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25-04-16, 05:09
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