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Crewmen, when it's time to pull the back deck on your AVLB AVLB Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge
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, you can avoid a geyser geyser (gī`zər) [Icel.], hot spring from which water and steam are ejected periodically to heights ranging from a few to several hundred feet.  of hydraulic fluid by remembering to disconnect the two hydraulic lines from the holddown manifold.

Forget to follow the TM procedures and the deck will disconnect them for you--the hard way. Then you'll have to explain a massive hydraulic spill to the environmental folks.

Just because you remembered to disconnect the lines doesn't mean you're out of the woods yet, either. Trying to move the AVLB under power will force hydraulic fluid out of the open hold-down manifold. Prevent that mistake by plugging the holddown manifold with tube caps, NSN NSN National Stock Number
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 4730-00-647-3311.

Then, remember to remove the caps and reattach Re`at`tach´   

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 the lines when putting the back deck in place.
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Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2004
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