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Busy few hours this morning, removed hose reels and got them sold for $500. Could have gotten more on eBay but it was nice to have a quick sale. Got tank craned out and a lot of other extras torched off. Next will be removing main pump and hopefully make an ebay sale and cutting down sides to make a nice flatbed on top! Beer time now.
Just cutting the firetruck bed down and flatbedding it, updated engine and transmission combo, new paint. Going to use it to pull pontoon to river, cruise nights. Honestly sold our newer GMC Denali because we had a huge payment on it every month and only drive it a couple times a year. This is costs almost nothing to insure and permanent registration and no payments!
I may have just a little bit of shop envy... That's quite a work space you have there. I hate to see a classic fire truck turned into a utilitarian flatbed, but it's your truck and your choice. What engine/trans upgrade do you have planned?
Good afternoon! I am kinda spoiled with my shop at work, and have almost every piece of fabrication equipment a person could want. It makes short work of some projects.
With selling the fire truck tank and equipment off of it I have been able to pay for the truck and newer engine and increased the usefulness of the truck for me. I am dropping in a 351w with zf5 manual transmission. The transmission is from an f550 and actually already has drive line brake on it. But the 351w is complete top to bottom even with power steering pump and alternator, headers. I realize I will have to fabricate some motor mounts and transmission mount but at least the driveline will be 30 years newer and have 1 wire alternator and hei ignition.
I guess the firetruck body was very irrelevant to me and would just rot away if I wasn't doing something with it, I will be reusing the bottom half of the firetruck body if it makes you feel better 😜
Sounds like a great project. Have fun with it and enjoy it. If you don't already have it planned, make sure the brakes are up to par too. It can ruin your day if they aren't. It's a touchy subject with me right now because the system on my fire truck keeps failing and I have a friend who needs back surgery right now because my other old truck (65 Chevy C50) dumped him in the ditch when the brakes failed on it.
Oh that's terrible, hope he comes out alright. The day I picked mine up I lost the brakes coming up to an intersection in the highway. Fortunately there was nobody coming and there was a section line across the road, otherwise I would have been out in a field. I drove it home 200+ miles with driveline brake and downshifting that night
Busy few hours this morning, removed hose reels and got them sold for $500. Could have gotten more on eBay but it was nice to have a quick sale. Got tank craned out and a lot of other extras torched off. Next will be removing main pump and hopefully make an ebay sale and cutting down sides to make a nice flatbed on top! Beer time now.
WOW Guess I'm mad at my money! Scrapped my body for $63, Tank for $90 AND GOT A wopping $79 FOR THE pump. (Guy said "it had over 500lbs of brass IF i would have taken apart)
Mark
P.S. I still have all the hose reels, motors and hoses....might still have a chance to sell to someone!
It might have helped me out that my hose reels had been changed in the late 90's and were good power rewind reels with controls and relays. I priced them out at $700-1000 each so the guy got a smoking deal at $500 for the set. My main pump is a waterous driveline pump in perfect condition, so hoping for a little resale there, secondary pump on PTO I probably won't get much for though. Tank I got $200 for though by some rancher wanted to use it to water cows.
I'm curious about this "driveline" pump. How does it pump from the driveline without the truck moving? My truck just has a completely separate Briggs engine driving a simple high pressure centrifugal pump. It has a cable running to the truck battery for starting, but otherwise it's completely self-contained.
Walked out to the driveway and took some pictures. It is labeled in the truck that once set up you run the truck in 5 gear about half throttle. As far as I can tell it actually disconnects the driveline from the rear axle inside the gear box. It actually has two driveline brakes.
That's correct, Paul. My fire truck, a 1978 C-900, has an air-operated disconnect. I put it in 5th gear and let out the clutch an...presto! I dont go anywhere but the bigboy pump runs. Then I run out to the panel and start pulling levers and watching gauges. A 750 gpm pump output means I can shoot a fat column of water 200 ft.
And all of this is good cause I live in Washington on 40 acres up in the mtns. The fire is close, the smoke is thick, and my location means the fire folks wont stay and defend my structures...and that 's why I have this truck. A thousand gallons of water, 25 of fuel, and a bunch of 2" hose lays and , hopefully, we're good.
Originally Posted by Paul Nelson
Walked out to the driveway and took some pictures. It is labeled in the truck that once set up you run the truck in 5 gear about half throttle. As far as I can tell it actually disconnects the driveline from the rear axle inside the gear box. It actually has two driveline brakes.
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Great looking truck! And totally great idea for you to keep around. I think this pump is labeled 1500 gpm at 150 psi. But it's all mechanical disconnect.
As far as I can tell it actually disconnects the driveline from the rear axle inside the gear box. It actually has two driveline brakes.
So it's the same concept as a divorce mount transfer case. Cool! That is a huge difference from the pump on my truck. Your pump is rated to move about 4x more water than the standalone pump on the back of mine. Although, right now the Briggs engine is working far better than the Ford one so at least I can pump water even if I have to move the truck with a tractor and a chain.
The dilemma I am facing with now is leave the pump which happens to support the driveline completely since I can't remove the pump without removing the gear box.
Or I can run out to the junk yard and find a replacement shaft to totally delete the driveline disconnect.
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