M35a2 Serial Number Location
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What is unusual from my experience is the four digit serial number '2389' as I remember each 'series' always starting with 10000 (IE, second vehicle in the 0525 series would have been 10001). Each type of truck had it's own series - 0525 I think is regular cargo truck.
M35a2 Serial Number Location Number
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Photos of the 1967 Kaiser M35A2
These are a few pictures of the 1967 Kaiser M35A2 that I purchased for conversion into a water truck for use by a friend on his farm. The truck was put on GSA auction in Raleigh in January 2004. I was not the high bidder for the auction, but the actual high bidder called me several days after the auction to offer me the truck since he was having difficulties arranging for shipment of the truck to his location (several states away...).
On the day that I removed the truck form the GSA sales yard, I drove my 1970 AMGeneral M35A2C loaded with a military tow bar, spare batteries, jumper cable (with adapter since the AMGeneral has a two pin plug and the Kaiser has the new NATO style single pin plug), seat cushions, an assortment of tools including an air hose with tire chuck, and a coworker who is in the National Guard who works on these trucks routinely. I drove right up to the truck, parked, and headed to the office to settle the paperwork while my coworker jumped on the new truck and checked the fluid levels and plugged up the slave cable. By the time I had walked back down the hill from the office, he had cranked up the Kaiser and was underneath installing a plug in one of the fittings of the air pack in order to plug an air leak in the brake system caused by the removal of the brake light switch.... After tossing the seat cushions onto the bare driver's seat frame and driving the truck around the yard a little bit, he declared it safe to drive home as long as I followed him since the truck had no rear lights (the rest of them worked fine). So I tailed him home to my place...
Later, closer, investigation showed that somebody had removed the air operated brake light switch (works off air pressure instead of break fluid as the older style switch had) and cut the brake switch wires at the harness and had cut the rear harness where it branched to feed the rear lights. Considering the amount of time that I figured I would spend tracing circuits, splicing wire, and replacing harness plugs, I opted to replace the entire rear harness with a NOS unit from Saturn Surplus that I ordered at the same time that I purchased a brake light switch upgrade kit (bolted right into place and had all the parts needed to repair the wire harness at this point as well). A Saturday afternoon spent under the truck replacing the brake light switch and the rear wiring harness along with a new set of batteries and all the electrical problems in the truck were solved.
If you have questions about any of these photos, send me an email and I'll try to provide an answer.
M35a2 Serial Number Location Numbers
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| Photo | Caption |
| 1-7 | Overall shots of truck.showing minimal rust, desert tan CARC paint, and unit markings. |
| 8-10 | Cab interior shots. Truck appears to have all data plates including a few installed during the rebuild to 'minimal depot standards' at Tooele, Utah. |
| 11 | Fuel tank fill caution. |
| 12 | NATO style single pin slave cable plug. |
| 13 | Old style seat frames, no cushions, but still has seatbelts installed (inertial real type lap belts), passenger seat back frame folded down. |
| 14 | Right side of engine. |
| 15 | Gauge cluster, notice the low miles/hours. |
| 16 | Passenger door with two different dates for CARC paint one for 8-92, the other for 1993. |
| 17 | New style plastic battery box. |
| 18 | Old style seat frames, no cushions, but still has seatbelts installed (inertial real type lap belts), passenger seat back frame in upright position |
| 19 | Glove box with dataplates and decals. |
| 20 | Hard cab dataplate, centered on front of cab right over the windshield a couple inches back from the front edge of the cab. |
| 21 | Tag to right of glovebox with date of rebuild to 'minimal depot standards' at Tooele, Utah. |
| 22 | Interior of cab showing condition of hard top and rear window. |
| 23 | Shot of the bed on a cold morning after a little bit of rain the previous night. |
| 24-25 | Engine shots showing the hot water personnel heater installed and a nest... |
| 26 | Under hood caution stencil. |
| 27 | Tag on heater. |
| 28 | Tag on generator. |
| 29 | Engine overhaul tag from Tooele Army Depot in Utah, standard bore overhaul performed in May 1990. |
| 30 | Continental Motors engine manufacturer tag showing that it is engine serial number 25845. |
| 31 | Hot water personnel heater with obstructed view of the Tooele Depot sticker on the oil filter indicating that the fuel density compensator has been bypassed converting the engine from multi-fuel to diesel operation. |
| 32-33 | More shots of the data plate on the hard cab. |
| 34 | Another shot of the overhaul data plate beside the glove box. |
