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By "bed to sit on", I think they mean that the tank needs to be attached to a separate frame from the truck's frame so that the truck's frame can flex a little without damaging the tank. It definitely doesn't need to be a full "cargo" type bed with tanks mounted in it. I've got a tanker that...

Never heard that.

Zeisshensoldt - No, you don't need to worry about your deuce engine running away. Think about this: this thread, up to this point, has been replied to by folks with literally hundreds of years of experience with diesel engines, and there have been only a handful of occasions. Memorable...

Ever use one of these?

Appears that the hospital chose a legitimately smart truck to haul their disaster response trailer around. And that causes me to think that the photo was staged. lol

The oil on your dipstick will look almost like chocolate milk. Or you could drain a little out of the drain plug.

Any dimensions? Measured drawings? My VFD is going to be replacing one of our brush trucks, a Deuce, and we'll be doing something similar to (or exactly the same as) this. Thanks

Halon is magical mystical stuff…if used correctly. “Correctly” means we must understand how Halon works. Halon interrupts the chemical chair reaction of the fire tetrahedron; it does not remove the fuel, heat, or oxygen. Halon is a liquefied gas in the extinguisher and discharges as a stream of...

Take a trip up to Fredricksburg, to the Nimitz Museum, and ask them where they get their resto work done. They're bound to have a ton of it.

Looks like some flavor of fire apparatus.

Rick has a good idea RE: find the lift cylinders and follow the hoses back. Be aware that the cylinders will probably be very near the pivot points at the front of the cab, and they might be surprisingly small. The "air lift" systems I've had experience with actually use air pressure to drive...

Many COEs have a hydraulic jack arrangement for lifting/tilting the cab. Part of the hydraulic circuit would release some hooks that held the cab down. You're looking for something that looks like the handle/pump/socket thingy of a bottle jack. Stick the handle in it and work it like a bottle...

Word to the wise: While I realize you "can drive the truck just fine", if you're going to use your deuce (5-ton, 10-ton, whatever) for your driving test, in Texas the Trooper giving you your driving test may ask to see the driver's license of the person who drove that vehicle to the test site...

What you're draining, specifically, is condensation. When the air compressor compresses the air, it heats up (air molecules are being pushed closer together, causing friction). The compressed air is stored in the tanks on your truck. When that compressed air is used (brakes, air tools, CTIS...

Hi. I've been lurking a while, posted a couple of times already. Love the site.

I drive a fire truck for a living. My employer, whose name I shall not mention under penalty of a stern talking to, buys B20. It's politically green. My fire truck does not like it. It spits and sputters and blows white smoke.

Google "Roscommon equipment center" also. It's a division of the minnesota (?) forestry dept, and they've done a lot of research and development work on using surplus military vehicles for firefighting. IMNSHO, when the Good Lord said "Let there be brush trucks," what He had in mind was a Deuce...