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Originally Posted by VM
Nice M1009! Is it still 24 volt?
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An oxymoron if there ever was one.
I was a First Sergeant when we were issued these in Germany in 1985. I popped into one of the classes our drivers were getting from GM. As with all military vehicles, the CUCV came equipped with receptcles "slave cables" used for "jump starting."
After a long discussion (with charts, slides and diagrams) of the basic 12 volt vehicle system, cobbled together with relays and such to meet a 24 volt military requirement the instructor explained that you couldn't use the slave cables to jump your vehicle if the battery was dead.
I was gratified by one of my young PFC's who asked, "Why the @##@ would you want to jump the vehicle if the battery wasn't dead?"
Not long after we had to remove the tow pintles as actually towing a trailer pulled the mounting bolts through the bumper.