TM 5-5420-203-14
Table 2-2. Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS)
Location
Interval
Item to
Item
Not Mission
(B, D, A,
Procedure
Check/Service
Capable if:
No.
W, M)
Tie Rod
Check for missing, loose, or damaged tie
1
BEFORE
Assemblies
rods, tie rod spacer, tie rod nuts/
washers, and housing. Replace any
missing or damaged parts (tie rod is a
non-structural member).
2
BEFORE
Deck
Inspect for missing, cracked, deformed,
One or more deck
or split decking/curbing. Replace as
plates in a row
necessary (decking and curbing are non-
Curbing
missing for wheeled
structural members).
vehicles; three or
more in a row for
tracked vehicles.
Class III leak
Hydraulic
3
Inspect for any hydraulic fluid leaks
BEFORE
Fluid Leaks
exists.
(hydraulic components are non-structural
members)
4***
Rivets, either
One or more CSK
BEFORE
Inspect for missing, loose, broken heads
pin-rivet or hot-
vertical rivets
and collars (in the case of pin-rivets),
rivet - Button
missing or loose in
also any evidence of corrosion (white
the hinge,
Head (BH) or
dust or powder around the hot rivet
head). Also check the ground where a
connector area, or
Countersunk
spliced area in
bridge has been stored for any rivet
(CSK)
ramp. Two or
heads that may have fallen off due to
more BH
corrosion. Report this immediately
horizontal rivets in
through channels. (Rivets/pin-rivets are
considered secondary structural members
top or bottom and
except where they exist in the hinge,
any rivet heads that
connector areas, spliced areas, or at
had fallen off from
either the hinge
locations along the bottom cord where
they connect cross bracing. Rivets in
connector, or
these areas are considered of primary
spliced area of
concern.
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