You can email the Mack truck museum and with your vin then will send you info on the truck it takes a few month to get it. They don’t charge for it but they do appreciate a donation.
I’m sorry man, sometimes I can’t help myself. It’s just vin.. not vin number the n is number, vehicle identification number number, I know grammar police lol hope you have a good day
Hey there, just so you know - Engineer's side is the Driver side (engineer for the truck and pump) and the Officer's side is the Passenger side (referring to the fire officer, like a Captain or Lieutenant, who would ride shotgun)
Jambo, I was going to say the same thing, but I decided to check comments first just in case. I'm a retired FF from Massachusetts so I know you are correct.
I would have thought it's too important/crucial piece of equipment to left broken? People often ignore a firetruck with s siren blaring, let alone a firetruck that doesn't have a working siren? Or was the siren maybe the last item to fail that led the city to buy a newer firetruck?
I am a retired fire fighter love seeing the old Iron still running. Everyone loves a fire truck at Christmas I would dress as Santa and be driven to houses to give out Christmas presents. The kids loved the truck more than the presents..lol The adrenaline you get driving a fire truck to a call never gets old . Proud to have served prouder of those who continue to serve and protect us. Great job J.R
Probably the horn button. The switch should have one wire to the button, one to the electric siren, and one to the beep-beep horn. All should chassis ground separately. The switch should be an on-on style.
I thought I'd hate this episode because whose ever going to own a firetruck, but John Ross goes back to the basics and helps us trace down electrical issues. Great episode!
I don’t understand how this channel is still not at 1mm, never mind 300k. I feel like the last 25k have been a real slog! The content is really fun and frequent. No one deserves it more!
I learned how to operate the pump and valves (basic engineering), on a truck almost identical to that. Ours wasn't a 4 door. Open rear jump cab. Man those were the days
I am an electrician and was an EMT with a rescue squad. I did a lot of electrical repairs and troubleshooting on our apparatus. We had an ambulance with a Federal Q2B mounted on an extended front bumper. It operated with a solenoid connected through a horn/siren switch on the console. It had used a Cole Hersee solenoid but the siren 'ate' them due to the high current draw - 100A+ @ 12V. I used a replacement from Prestolite Leece-Neville rated for 200A. Sadly, we had to junk that ambulance years ago. I miss that screaming siren. We did keep the "Q" but it sits in a storeroom collecting dust.
It likely has a problem that is why they installed the siren box on the bumper. You are right they are crazy expensive. 1 of my engines has 2 of them and I looked for months to get replacements. Ebay is where you will find one but hold on to your wallet and be ready for sticker shock even used they go between $250 and $500
Guessing that's no siren, that's a Public Address System. In the wrong hands (??) Oh yeah, that def could become more dangerous than the horns and sirens.
@@AndrewAMartin No, the "it" sitting on the bumper is a PA. It may have been sold as a package deal together along with the siren mounted above it. They need both, but I seriously doubt they were designed to operate together simultaneously. I assume the purpose of the bum solenoid was to alternately turn one or the other of them on at a time.
The floor switch used to energize old starters and these were also used to start old Onan generator sets as they can take full current, hundreds of amps for a short time without a relay. The Q motor is very similar to an old 12 volt starter motor as used on 1960's V-8's..
Love the sound of those sirens. . Had my honeymoon in NYC and stayed in the Casablanca Hotel with the fire house next to it. . Was so disappointed when there wasn't a single shout while we were there.
I few months ago: "I just bought a huge building, I hope I can afford it" Now: "I bought a fire truck for $3k" I am guessing he is not struggling with the building payments.
Is the floor switch on the driver's side for brights headlights? I had a 70s oldsmobile where the brights was a floor switch on the left floorboard like that.
Absurdly cool. Best grocery getter ever!! LoL. When I was a kid back in 80’s-90’s, I knew a guy who made a small fortune buying fire engines and old ambulances for export. 👍
The Federal Signal PA200 is an awesome siren! Love the Q siren as well, I think the PA200 has "in-between" siren tones, when you get it all hooked up try putting the knob in between yelp and hi-lo and you should hear a tone!
In my old fire dept days, if you drove an engine, you were called a Wagon Driver. The officer seat was called "The Seat" and the jump seats were called "The Buckets". My favorite spots to ride were in the buckets as nozzleman on the wagon and ,"hook and can" on the truck. Also loved being a Wagon and Squad Wagon Driver. 👍🇺🇸
friendly correction: the driver is often known as the engineer and the passenger side front seat is the officer position. I'm not too sure about the back but I know there's the nozzle and backup and sometimes there's an extra seat but I don't know what that position would be called.
I think this will be one of your most fun builds ever. Every boy inside of us all wants a personal fire truck. I bet your town would love it when you fire up the siren. Lol
Seat layout. Driver is the engineer or chauffeur, passenger side front is the Officer . Rear jump seats are firefighters. Good luck with the truck really cool
JR i enjoy your videos. If i can ask for a video of you explaining how you got into working and flipping car’s. Thanks brotha, wishing you the best and love how the shop/warehouse is coming together.❤️🤙🏼
Just info, most all fire apparatus has ground activating solenoids. So please careful so you do not short anything out. I have been working on fire equipment for over 20 years. Nice truck.
John, Good job. The next time you are using the in cab commo system, how about putting a mic in one of the headphone cups? That way we should be able to hear well too.
Driver Pump Operator = Engineer drives the rig. Officer rides in the passenger seat. Jumpseat A is behind the Officer and Jumpseat B is behind the driver. Let me know if you want to start a fire dept. patch collection. Love the videos Brother.
The foot switch is probably a Motorcraft (Ford). Used on 70-78 Panthers, F-Series, briefly on some Fox bodies until around 1978-79 model year for high beam activation. Ford started moving over to the European style turn signal stalk forward pull and stopped using the foot switch. As the carpets in the Panthers got more plush, especially on the Lincolns, the foot switches were getting carpet fibers and floor mats caught up in them all the time. I am not surprised one bit that O'Reilly's carries these in stock.
In fire truck speak the engineer is the driver who also operates the pump when they get to the fire. The front passenger seat is reserved for the officer/highest ranking firefighter who will command/manage the other firefighters on the truck.
My A6 had the same problem. Used car dealer I bought the Audi from never programmed in the battery to the immobilizer so the car ran for 6 mo. at lower recharging rate until low battery triggered the anti theft system and locked me out of steering column, transmission, hood & trunk, lol. Rear seat unlocks by key allowing trunk access to battery by fluorescent manual trunk release. As a former 300,000 mi F150 owner I had no idea what was going on. Bought a new battery and a VCDS and reprogrammed it. Nice new Autel by the way. JR. Impressive. Hope you're being paid to sponsor them. Correction: were paid handsomely to be sponsored by them. Seems like it's a no brainer, though it would not be the 1st time somebody accused me of that.
The solenoid would show 12v on both command connections as the coil is powered but acts as a straight through until you get ground . Most solenoids now use a power on to bring it in.
Isn't that the old highbeam foot-switch in all the cars older than about 1972? Had one in an old truck, and a couple of cars from my teens. Cool to see.
I stopped by his shop to meet the Detail Dudes the other day. The shop is a work in progress but it IS a working shop, not a trailer queen castle. BTW, I'm driving 90 miles to have the double D boys detail my car's exterior. They're worth it.
I grew up next to a fire station and was heavily into fire engines. In the '80s they removed the federal sirens and replace them with the light bars and the electronic sirens.
The golden bulldog is put on by mack indicating an all mack chassis. Mean mack body ftame motor ect. Thats how u can spot one from a mile away if it has a mack motot.
