Passenger seat lockdown?????

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:31 pm

Both my M38A1 and M38 came with a sliding togglebolt that slides over the LR foot of the passenger seat to keep it from flipping up on a bump. Was this a National Guard thing or Army? John

Kendall · Post by **Kendall** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:11 pm

That was a MWO put out by the military.
Kendall

swat · Post by **swat** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:41 pm

Could we have a photo of this toggle bolt MWO mod?

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:43 pm

My camera is just not worth garbage for closeups. The lockdown is a hardware store sliding round deadbolt that was welded to the floor at a angle. The bolt handle that slides in the round tube, extends out over the seats flat LR support and turns and locks. About 5/16 shaft size. What does the MWO abbrviation mean??????????Duh! John

AeroE · Post by **AeroE** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:40 pm

My 3-51 M38 also has the locking bolt. Must have been a relatively common MWO. Also has the reinforcements on the upper rear tub corners.

Kendall · Post by **Kendall** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:50 pm

MWO= Modified Work Order
TB= Techincal Bulletin

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:36 am

I've seen alot of MWO's on civilian Jeeps!!!! Bubba did it!

John

swat · Post by **swat** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:53 am

Yes, but Bubba did no technical bulletins, because none could be accomplished with a hammer, hacksaw, or torch.

Balvar24 · Post by **Balvar24** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:09 am

My 53 A1 has it. I blamed bubba, as mine was brass-tone under all the paint!

RimfireJim · Post by **RimfireJim** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:45 pm

oilleaker1 wrote:My camera is just not worth garbage for closeups.

Here's a trick I use quite a bit:
1. Set your camera to the highest resolution available on it.
2. If your camera has a zoom lens, set it at mid-range which generally approximates the human eye viewing angle, reducing perspective effects.
3. Get good lighting on the object. Very important, but another whole topic. Built-in flash rarely works well for this task.
4. Holding your camera at a distance from the object that gives a good focus, take the picture.
5. Using an image editor program, crop the picture closely to the area of interest. This will greatly reduce the file size. I usually use Microsoft Office Picture Manager because I have it on my computer, but there are free or shareware programs out there that can be downloaded. FastStone MaxView is a nice shareware; GIMP is free, but more complicated (like PhotoShop). I see IrfanView (free) recommended frequently, but I haven't used it personally.
6. Resize (reduce resolution of) the image so that it is still not too big to posting, emailing, etc. but not so much that you lose the detail you are trying to capture. The above programs all have a Resize function.