Dash plates - fording

TomM · Post by **TomM** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:34 pm

I have a brass data plate "bell housing drain plug stowed in glove box install before fording - remove after fording". dimensions 1"x7"

It is the same wording as the M38 closed bellhousing decal.

Which MV carry a brass data plate instead of a decal?

Tom

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:55 am

Tom, my original untouched '52 M38A1 has one. I've not seen another. Hope it helps you. John

Post by **wesk** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:24 am

I am sure John means "Untouched" by civvy hands since we all know the military had their hands all over the jeeps for at least the first 10 or more years!

Before this wild new discovery bug gets out of hand it would be nice if each of you guys posted a photo of the tags you are discussing and their location where you found them.

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:42 pm

Wes, I can not tell a lie, I touched it. I'll send you some pictures. I've tried to browse and post pictures out of my Kodak Easyshare program, but there are more choices in the maze than I'm capable of getting through. If I had a step by step, click by click set of instructions that don't leave out the ( didn't you know that) part, I could post thousands of cool shots. I almost threw my computer out the window the last time but stopped short.

I cleaned it and painted the black so you could read it, and put it back where I found it. John

TomM · Post by **TomM** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:57 pm

Post by **wesk** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:58 pm

Tom,

Do you have a picture this old fart can read????

John,

Just load your photos on your computer as plain JPEG type files without related operating programs like "Easy Share" or "Web Brown material". Those Bull S programs fake easy photo magic storing to keep you hooked on their advertisements and offers. Once you free your photos from those money traps then your uploading will be a very simple 1,2,3 thingy.

TomM · Post by **TomM** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:18 pm

Wes, I'll email it directly. I fooled with settings some but have not yet been able to load up the file without having it resize.

Tom

oilleaker1 · Post by **oilleaker1** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:15 pm

Wes, my Kodak camera has a dock it sits in, and works in conjunction with the Kodak installed hardware. I don't know if it will download to anything else but that Kodak program. I might have to ask the wife if her camera can do that. Either way, I'm sure it will be a learning ( ^&*(%$#) experience. Now, if you want your carb cleaned and adjusted, cake. Some rainy day and I'm not out in the shop, I'll have to try/waste time on this.

I rather be driving out on some trail etc. Tom, my plate looks just like yours! Kinky huh. John

Oldsalt · Post by **Oldsalt** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:39 pm

I would bet that your camera is recording standard image files and you should be able to skip the kodak software and just use the windows explorer to see them and copy them to your computer. You might have to pull the memory card out and plug it into a card reader if the kodak dock won't allow other programs to access the camera.

evanso1975 · Post by **evanso1975** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:23 pm

Did we ever get a definitive answer on this? There's one on Fleabay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jeep-Willys-M38 ... e7&vxp=mtr

The description made me think that the "sticky residue" could be from the later decal?

Owen.

Post by **wesk** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 5:14 pm

Another QTM perfect and correct for the M38 part. No part number, No publication reference. The guy really loves money and selling things but has no realistic grasp of what is correct for anything. And after all is said and done and someone speaks out against his false statement those people become the target of his arm chair quarterback jokes. I'd be embarrassed here to even admit that I ever bought anything off this guy!

There is no evidence that plate was ever even military issue let alone ever on an official M38 / M38A1 / M170 parts list. But we can always point to some weird decal or painted stencil that some private in some unit placed or painted on an MV.

Reminds of an episode in July 1969 in Thailand. We had a B-52 blow up on the runway forcing the closing of the runway for several hours which in turn caused the flight of 6 B-52's in the air to divert to Takli up north. So we went up to Takli to service and launch the 6 Buffs back to U'Tapao. Lo and behold a bunch of fighter troops painted their 357th TFS art work on the left side of each Buff's nose. So not to be out shown by the fighter jocks we went to the paint shop and punched out a few stencil's that were "L'il Buff" and stenciled that on as many F105's as we could find.

Now if he reads this I bet he starts selling "L'il Buff" decals to the F105 restorers as "Correct and perfect for your F105.

Dash plates - fording

Dash plates - fording

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