What's this PIV F2 part?

[HengRong]

Yeah that's not what they did. The turret traverse motor was removed at the end of the Ausf H. run of production.
https://models-market.ru/image-product- ... L35018.jpg
http://obchod.valka.cz/product_info.php ... -1942-1943
Looks like a smoke candle rack to me...

[Aussie]

Nice pics and fair call.
Everything I read earlier today said the top box housed the electric turret traverse motor.
If it's not in there , where is it then?

[HengRong]

Mate I believe the motor was housed behind the muffler part that you have been referring to. Once it was removed the resulting space was later used for the installation of an auxiliary 200-litre (53 US gal) fuel tank; which increased road range to 320 km (200 mi). It must have been fairly sizable...

[Aussie]

I'll eat my humble pie with heaps of dead horse then.
Learned not to take info on the net as gospel again.

[HengRong]

No biggie mate, we have all been there. The only tank I really know much about is the PzIV, everything else I pick up from forums like this. Its all learning. Cheers.

[PainlessWolf]

Good morning,
Smoke Candles it is then. I was about to stand corrected but will sit back into my comfy ignorance instead. *chuckles*
regards,
Painless