towman1271

amazing job.. Looks perfect

great details.. looks amazing. how did you get the face of the federal q siren to look so good.. does the kit come with that.. My tanker build has one!

Amazing.. look so real it's unbelievable

What a monster.. looks so amazing. Great job

Great build.. very creative

looks great!

Welcome to the group. I'm not to far away from you.. I live near the Glendale Lake area.. A little north of Altoona. It is hard in our area to find others, but this group is full of great people always willing to help!

This project is impressive.. Your details are unbelievable!

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Great idea.. But I'm a sucker for any form of towing equipment!

They come with resistors already in the wiring to make the flash.. makes it easy ?

Great project.. If you have any truck questions ask away.. The guys on the truck side know there stuff & all are willing to give advice & help you along!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C0joPhvutgA

Have all lights and siren hooked up..took sergey's advice and ran 2 separate circuits for front and rear. Have to complete pump panel, discharges and intakes. Decal it and call her done. See how much longer that takes. VID_20180407_082827194.mp4

I won't really be using the LEDs for any real length of time. But are you suggesting I use multiple batteries on separate circuits. I would have space on each side of the tank, behind the compartment area?

I like your idea.. Looking good..

The lights on the tank will be led's also & will run off a 9v. As for a Newton dump valve! It is a manual valve we use on fire tankers as a quick release to rapidly drain water to a portable tank. We live in a very rural area where water is trucked to house fires, dumped quickly in these portable tanks so fire engines can pump it on the fire. I downloaded two pics to show you. The first is a truck dumping into the portable tank, the second is truck similar to ours were to valve is hidden in a side compartment! The truck i am building halls 2500 gallons of water, or approx. 9500 liters

Spent most of the Easter weekend working on the tail end of this truck. Finished the step bumper and lights. Need to add some of the plumbing. This truck has a Newton dump in each of the rear compartments, plus a round dump on the rear that needs completed yet!

I've pushed the paint issue myself before.. Hard not to.. Love the direction you're heading with this!

Cool looking project.. great job on the bodywork

You are really making progress on this one. looking good!

Major improvement.. Nice going

beautiful job.. perfectly detailed

i sincerely hope i didn't offend you with my comment. I was on my way out for work & made a quick reply. This is my first time using lighting & still working the bugs out. I would love to read your article to learn more. I consider you one of our top builders on this site& have learned from your builds. As a matter of fact i plan on doing The Love Machine from Convoy soon & will use yours to learn from. Mine won't go to the detail level of yours though. But back to the topic, Just wanted to apologize if i upset you. I will take more time when i comment in the future! Always look forward to your builds also!

I agree with white on the frame.. will make the cab stand out better