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Civilian use. Our pickup trucks, and the 2 company vans are gasoline too. We get what they give us to use. We go through their parts dept in DFW to get what we need to fix this stuff and they just put it on a flight coming in. I suppose that's why we have what we have motive power wise, because they have the in house inventory to support it. It's all the same equipment system wide.Nice rack. (I'm sure there's a good joke to be made here.)
Gas and diesel? The Air Force got smart early in my career and ditched all the gas equipment. Everything we had could run on JP8 or diesel.
I had to maintain a few deicing trucks that had Ford 300s running the pumps. Never saw a Lima motor (2.3). Huffer carts are fun. Toss a couple tennis balls in the exhaust and fire it up. Then try to catch the flaming tennis balls as they fall back down. What kind of equipment is the 8V71 powering? We had 4-71s in our older generators. The newer ones had 6BTs, but our aircraft only needed about 20kW.
That sounds sooo typical. A buddy of mine was a senior master sergeant running the local AFB GSE dept, and the waste that the military does is epic. The stuff he told me just shocked me.The Navy was that way when I worked GSE as a contractor. We had a mish-mash of equipment. We had four B-5 stands on order for years, and when they finally came in, there were 4 pallets of parts, mostly unusable, that they had scrounged from DRMO in Kadena. They got pissed that I ordered more $$ in parts than new stands would have cost, but completed stands were no longer available, even though every part needed to build one was. All they really got from DRMO was four serial numbers.
Altus OK ?We started putting bolt marking compound on the voltage adjustment on our generators because some of the crew chiefs would tweak the voltage instead of fixing the electrical problems on their planes. QA wouldn't allow us to padlock the doors. Mind you, the doors had to be opened with a flathead screwdriver.
An interesting note, being in Oklahoma, we get lightning strikes on our aircraft from time to time. When a plane would get hit, we always had to tweak one of our generators higher and dedicate it to that aircraft for a few months until they worked out all the electrical bugs.