My suggestion is to put some super bright LEDs in the housings and wire them to a switch. That way you can leave them off to avoid reflection off of certain trailers and also use them for rear facing illumination while doing stuff back there.

 

Travis took the words right out of my mouth... or right off my keyboard. I have mine on a switch and like the setup.

 

Forgot to mention... that is a good lookin' truck Greg, the headache rack really adds to it.

 

Thank you.

Thanks. The shop was great, but short lived. We finished our year end inventory and started filling it back up today. 3 truckloads of stuff so far. By the end of the week we'll have just the space between the yellow lines for the forklift. Oh well, it was great while it lasted.

Thanks Donn. The bucket truck was a regular cab, which I was all set to run with. I even picked up a hauler bed that needed some repair work and a new coat of paint. I literally was getting ready to pick up some diamond plate steel sheets and begin working on the hauler bed when my phone started ringing off the hook with prospective buyers for the bucket truck. I guess raising the price worked out. I sold the bucket truck in the morning and bought the crew cab in the afternoon. I couldn't have planned it any better if I tried.

So now I have a hauler bed that I'll need to get rid of. I wonder if I should just try and sell it as is or fix it up first? I am kinda on project overload at the moment so I might just try and offload it to break even. My next task is to install the air ride fifth wheel hitch. It's super heavy so I'll need the forklift again. You are welcome to come over and help. I'll spring for the pizza and refreshments.

The F450 barely fit in the booth. I had the front bumper actually touching the doors and the sprayer wouldn't work. Turns out that the doors have these little microswitches that cut off air pressure when the doors are open (must be a safety thing...). So, I had to back up about 1/2" so the doors would close properly and the sprayer would work. It's a good thing I only had to paint the back part of the truck. It was just one of those weekends where everything fell into place. (I wish that would happen more often...). Throwing down paint is the easy part. The prep is the killer. It took us a day and a half to strip the hardware and clean the tool boxes and mask everything for paint. Only took about 3 hours to lay down paint once I got the truck into the booth.

My wife helped out a bunch, she was here pretty much the entire time. My daughter came down to the shop on Sunday to help us unmask everything. She said it was like Christmas all over again...

I think you guys are right. I'll wire up a switch in the cab. I priced out the super bright LEDs and they were about $50 EACH ... so I passed. The incandescent lamps are much brighter than I expected. They only ran me about $6 apiece so that is much more in my budget. They were sealed lenses and came with a 3 wire plug just like the red lenses. They even had the same bulb inside (running/stop double filament type). So, I simply wired the red and black together and they were super bright and illuminated the bed pretty well.

Thanks.

 

Very nice truck and very nice job!

 

Sweet!!! Beautiful rig and a fantastic set up.

 

Mine are the same sealed units you have I think. I was thinking about heating them up and trying to get them separated, maybe throw a set of these in them.
Pair 1156/1157 BA15 LED Bayonet Bulbs
The little Chinese fellla layin down the sealant on mine was serious about it, I don't know if they'll come apart or not.

 

Very nice addition!