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Get a cheapie lapel microphone and make a video while you're at it:D

Slightly off topic, but the GSA provides fire fighting conversions for these? Do they actually outfit trucks or just provide the excess inventory for departments to do it?

You know... if someone put together a decent video (like where you can hear and see everything well) going through PMCS, common repairs, tips, tricks, etc., I'd definitely shell out 20 or 30 bucks for a copy.

Haha seems sketchy but I trust physics.

What keeps the front tires pointing in the right direction when flat towing?

Quick update... Kambaku had a good spare set of batteries that I bought. The truck starts much better than ever now. I think the old batteries were on their way out even before I bought it last summer. My voltage gauge now reads 28v and the 28v light on the alternator is now green. I think the...

Pics! So who is doing all these conversions? Are guys at each department tackling it or is it being done by local shops?

Who sells these? How much? Do they extend above the wheel lip very far?

Do the wheels need to come off to check level? I need to do this.

That looks great; I've been thinking about something like this too. So those seats are from the back of an extended cab truck? Or from the middle of the front row? I have three kids so I need five seats total. I'm thinking of putting a 3 person bench in the back, over to the passenger side as...

Well, after a while the battery started to get warm and the charger started pushing 20 amps. After a couple hours it began to smell "funny" and some fluid was starting to seep through the six sealed plugs, so I shut it off. Still only reading 9v. I think I have to face reality here lol

I borrowed a 30 amp charger from the shop next door and have it hooked up now but the amp gage is reading only about 4-5a. When I hook it up to one of the good batteries it pulls about 15-20. Is this normal? Or am I just beating a dead horse? The questionable batteries I have show about 8-9v but...

So what "standard" car battery can be used in place of the Hawkers? Looks like a group 34 will work with something to keep it in place since it's narrower. Are the terminals the same size and in the same location so the cables can be reused? Or will I have to make up some custom cables?

Date/lot number sticker says 0507-48... guessing 2005 or 2007 vintage?

So did you pry out the six little plugs? Or do your batteries look different from mine? I've now tried three different chargers on mine and none of them work. The last one is a 40A charger but it just automatically goes into float mode when I hook them up. Anything I can do to try to salvage...

Home Depot has a 40 amp charger... gonna just pick one of those up and give it a shot. Gotta get this fixed, I miss driving my truck!

Yeah it was my fault for letting it sit. I'm also not getting 28v from my regulator so I think it was never really topping off the batteries anyway. I'm going to tap an extension cord into a light on the front of my shop so I can keep a charger on it all the time when parked.

So I've had one battery on the Noco charger for about 10 days now and it's not taking a charge. I tried the recovery mode, too. I'm going to try to find a 20 amp charger to blast it with in a last ditch effort. What's a good (cheap) replacement for these, if it doesn't take? Two are still...

That's an electric over hydraulic setup in the picture. Motor on the right, pump/reservoir on the left.

Cool idea, but I agree that it would be really taxing on the air pump to supply that volume of fluid at high pressure. Other options could be ball screw linear actuators or winches, since you're planning on pulling cable anyway.