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[52Zebra]

Specifications (353 Cargo w/winch[2])
Weight   8,800 lb (4,000 kg) empty
16,400 lb (7,400 kg) loaded
Length   270 1?8 in (6.86 m)
Width   88 in (2.24 m)
Height   93 in (2.36 m) to cab
109 1?8 in (2.77 m) overall
Engine   GMC 270
91 hp (68 kW)
Transmission   5 spd. x 2 range trf. case
Suspension   Beam axles on leaf springs
Fuel capacity   40 US gal (150 l)[1]
Operational
range
300 mi (482.8 km)
Speed   45 mph (72 km/h)

[western0221]

The photos you show are NOT a Gas truck of GMC CCKW.
It is an Air Compressor truck variant.


A Gas truck is here.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GMC_CCKW_750_Gal_Tanker.jpg

[52Zebra]

Yes, Thanks

[western0221]

I cannot promise when I'll try it (I have too much projects I want to do) but....
if anybody won't do,
I'll make it.

Ummm..... maybe till the end of 2015. (Again I cannot promise it.)

[western0221]

Ummm..... maybe till the end of 2015. (Again I cannot promise it.)

2 years passed from my post but ..... impossible, no time I can share on CCKW.

By the way, I increase my interests about Airbase refuel trucks / fire engines containing CCKW and Studebaker US6 , other WWII time ones , not only Cold War time I'm trying.

A small question.
I find some photos and plastic kits about CCKW fuel tanker.
At USAAF Airbases, CCKW fuel tanker often towed 1x or 2x / 3x fuel tank trailers like here ....
http://pavlikhobbykits.zdenny.cz/215-gmc-cckw-353-airfield-fuel-tank-600-gallon-trailer-a3-de.html
When I'll finish single CCKW fuel tanker and have a bit more time, try this tank trailer .....

Btw my question is about how send internal fuels from those trailers to hungry aircrafts ?
I cannot think those little trailers have some engines to work itself's pump.
Mechanical power train "Power Take-off" from CCKW's driveshaft is also hard to guess.
Rest .... rubber tube connects from a trailer to the CCKW and CCKW's pump inhales fuel from the tailer and send to an aircraft ?
Someone knows answer ?