ILTIS mystery body hole

[Marc Montgomery]

Ive added a photo.. If anyone has a photo of an Iltis with a fixture of some sort in this location...i think that would help.

How many other owners of Iltis on this forum have this hole or have seen one like it? This may have been a theatre mod, as mine was in Bosnia...possibly even the force commander's jeep- some indication of that, but definitely not confirmed yet.

[Matthew Reid]

I have seen this hole on a few Itlis's And i'm sure i have pic some where of the item that was fixed in this location.

Give me a chance to go through my pics.


Matthew

[Scott Bentley]

I'm convinced it was for a Slave Cable Outlet. Dimensionally it's identical, and in a much more useful place than the cheesy location under the dash. Either way, I'm curious, as I've never seen this done to any of the ones I used.

[rob love]

I was also thinking that the dimensions were similar to the old 2 pin slave, but there are a few problems with that location. It would require some filler blocks to properly mount over the stamped rib, and sticking beyond the side is not a normal place to extend equipment. I am thinking it was more likely something to do with the TCCCs systems, but that is purely a guess.

The army got serious about the unauthorised mods when the Iltis came out. Some of the older jeeps had more oddball holes in them than swiss cheese, between map boards, goody boxes, and the odd stereos.

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by rob love

I was also thinking that the dimensions were similar to the old 2 pin slave, but there are a few problems with that location. It would require some filler blocks to properly mount over the stamped rib, and sticking beyond the side is not a normal place to extend equipment. I am thinking it was more likely something to do with the TCCCs systems, but that is purely a guess.

The army got serious about the unauthorised mods when the Iltis came out. Some of the older jeeps had more oddball holes in them than swiss cheese, between map boards, goody boxes, and the odd stereos.

The thing that puts me off a bit is that I can't think of anything to do with TCCCS that uses a plug or cable anywhere near 2" in diameter. I'm still thinking Slave Cable or Generator Plug, but either way, strange.....

[Marc Montgomery]

yep, had a few guesses that it was for Tics, and Scotty's suggestion of a slave outlet..but Im surprised at how few photos there are of the drivers side of Iltis. but so far no definitive answer, photos, etc.

i know one guy who put a military outliet from a truck shelter box into the hole, as he had a dynamo or something in the back.

As mentioned, Ive seen several with the holes. Unfortunately, my jeep is not handy so I cant get the exact diameter

[rob love]

While a DC socket would not stick out so far, and therefore be a possibility, it seems to me that the bolt pattern for them was more squarish, whereas this one is more the shape of a slave receptacle.

The engineers in Ottawa made a mistake on the M109s and installed a slave cable outlet onto the back of the turret. The idea was that a small 2kw generator, mounted on the back of the turret, would keep the batteries charged up rather than having to run the main engine of the M109. Only problem was that the troops found it much easier to hook their slave cables to that outlet. The turret ring commutator brushes were not made to have 300 or more amps run through them on a cold start. A DC receptacle would have been the correct item to have been installed there, but the bolt patterns were not the same so there was no easy fix.