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A small bit of progress from the last few days, all of the compartment doors are off and in primer, and the rear compartment is out.

7 hours ago, General Ike said:

The L was sold to Gere Lady and was lost in a fire when his barn burned. It was at GFD the entire time I was there in service as E1-4 but it never saw fire while I was there from '96-'00. It was a 1947 I believe. Ran its last job pumping a fire at Sentz cleaners right off the Square in Gettysburg in the mid '90's.

The CF was the old Engine Zero from Yardley. It became E1-3. I caught a ton of fire on that rig. It was acquired to act as a stand in for E1-2 (1977 Seagrave) when it was refurbished and had a Pierce body mounted. They decided to keep it when E1-2 came back and it was slimed. Gere Lady coincidentally owns E1-2 now as well. And while we are at it he owns the old hose wagon, Wagon 1. Or at least he did when I did my Pre delivery inspection of the General in 2011.

Last I knew, the CF, E1-3, was at the Harrisburg Area Community College fire school.

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I'm pretty sure a large chunk of surviving retired Adams County apparatus are owned by the Lady's, including a lot of Macks; and I believe he does still have the Wagon, which had been painted white and spent some time at the 911/Training Center with Fairfield's old IH/Hamerly engine and Gettysburg's old air wagon.  I did some research and the CF is currently at Luzerne County Community College.  She definitely did look better in red! (not my photo, it was sent to me a few years ago)

And I shot this clip at the 2010 Adams County Volunteer Emergency Services Convention, it appears to be near the end of the restoration.  They also had an L and CF engines that were originally red and ended up getting "slimed".  Unfortunately the L was lost in a fire, and the CF is now with a training facility elsewhere in PA.

Found this video of it on Gettysburg's facebook page, just after it was taken out of service

On 12/5/2016 at 7:38 PM, Mack58B42 said:

Nice!  I've got to get on the ball and start finding some tools for my truck.  Fortunately, I have a shallow hose bed, and I had snagged some retired 3" and 1.5" from my department, but I don't have any tools, nozzles, or appliances at all.  Hopefully in the spring I can start looking for some swap meets to start finding that sort of stuff.

Did that ladder come with a couple of people to help you lift it?!?!

I was pretty fortunate, a lot of hose, nozzles and other equipment came with this when I bought it, there were just a few odds and ends (like the ladder) that I needed to get

So I haven't gotten to do much work on the actual truck, but I did acquire some more equipment to carry on it this weekend.  Friday night I got some more hose (1-1/2" and 2"), and am planning on building "blitz boxes" to keep them in as crosslays.  On Saturday, I loaded up and headed to Hamburg to pick up some hand tools, and from there proceeded to Boyertown to pick up a ladder from @yarnall.  I then received the grand tour of the Yarnall truck collection, which made me green with envy and gave me something to work towards- if only I had the money, space, and a willing wife!

I finally found those pics that I had of the Schaefferstown Mack that rolled over, damage doesn't look too bad.  According to the date on the photos, I took these in 2011.
 

On 11/1/2016 at 10:12 PM, 609albert said:

how many gal.water tank and is it a 'T' type  tank ,any leaks?

It's a 500 gal tank, T type.  No leaks that I've noticed, but I haven't filled it up completely, either.

My latest updates, from September 24 to a week or 2 ago.  Work on the rig has slowed due to the weather finally getting cooler and trying to finish enclosing the back of the building it's kept in.

Had a little visitor:

Did some painting:

Put things back together before the York muster:

The big body panel suffered a little mishap after painting, and is a little scuffed and scratched, which I plan on fixing when I do the body.

After the York Muster, removed the hosebed floor, grab handles, taillights, hard sleeve trays, ladder racks, rear spot lights and emergency lights.  Planning to rewire the lights on the rear, after I get the turn signals off and paint the body.  Any suggestions other than a lot of little turns with a wrench and small fingers?

Removed the rear body panel.  I couldn't figure out any way to remove it other than cutting the welds and removing the bumper, so I decided to cut the body panel where it met the bumper instead I plan on removing the rear compartment before cleaning everything up and starting to prime and paint.

On 10/19/2016 at 9:50 PM, dek1581 said:

is that mackinaw gray on those wheels?

I used Rustoleum Light Smoke Gray

I have some progress updates, but first an electrical question.  Occasionally, when I start it up to move around at home, the voltmeter reads extremely high, and when I go near the battery box after moving the rig, it smells like the battery is cooking; however, the battery is not hot to the touch.  Other times, I can start it and run and not have any problems at all.  It seems to be happening intermittently, but if it's going to be a problem I want to fix it before I destroy my less than 1 year old batteries!  Is there a voltage regulator that I should be looking at replacing?  

On 10/5/2016 at 10:53 AM, GA_Dave said:

Rescue 35, Schaefferstown, PA

1993 Mack MC/Darley

1250/1000/30F

I have a pic of this one sitting outside PA Fire Apparatus (Lady & Taylor) from a few years ago after it was rolled on its side, I'll have to see if I can find it.  If I remember right, the damage wasn't too bad looking.

Macks and a few other shots from this year's Old Fire Farts of York County muster.  The featured manufacturer this year was American LaFrance.

Ex Bladensburg, MD and Hamden, CT.  Responded to the Sandy Hook school shooting:

Ex Gettysburg and Brushtown Chevy engine:

On 9/17/2016 at 11:49 AM, GA_Dave said:

Engine 16, Union Fire Company, Lebanon, PA (retired)

1978 Mack CF

1500/500

I believe this is the same one,  after a refurb.  It was in service until about a year or 2 ago, now in the hands of a private owner still in Central PA

A quick technical question- would I be ok running only (2) 12v batteries (1 on A, 1 on B), as opposed to 4 total?  It originally ran 2 6v batteries on each in a 12v series, so unless there's something I'm missing, it should work, right?

A couple pics from the last few days of work:

Painted the wheels gray

Removed the side steps and battery box:

Got the pump and dog box areas in primer for new/corrected paint

A little bit of progress over the last few days.  Removed the driver's side storage box/jump seat step, cleaned it up and have it in primer.  I'm trying out the red primer to see if that helps darken up the red at all when I paint it; I may end up having to mix some black with my paint to get the desired color.  I also plan on coating the inside and bottom of the box with bedliner to help with durability and appearance.  

The last couple weeks have been full of activity on the rig, culminating in staying up until 0230 on Friday night getting things back together to go to the Cumberland County Volunteer Fireman's Association parade on Saturday.  A few of the old exhaust studs were stubborn, with one in particular holding up the whole project, which ended up needing drilled out.  I ended up replacing about half of the studs with new, and all of the nuts are new, with anti-sieze applied before the final install.  In a rush, I tried to paint the body around the dog box last Thursday, when it was 92 degrees and humid out, and the paint ended up with a severe orange peel effect; I'll fix that this week with the much nicer weather.  I also replaced the spark plugs and plug wires on the right side, and the exhaust manifold went on with no other problems.  I am amazed at how much quieter the engine  is- you can actually hold a conversation while driving down the road now!  As far as the Convention went, there were only a handful of antique rigs there, including a few hand pumpers, and I was the only Mack- the rest were ALF's.  I'm also not sure I like the red paint that I chose, after spraying it on it appears too bright compared to what was inside the compartments and in the hard to reach places.  In the last pic, there appears to be a  difference between the colors on the dog box and the wheel; I used the exact same paint, but on the wheel I simply painted over the existing red paint, and on the dog box I used a gray primer.  You can also see the orange peel effect around the dog box in that pic.

On 8/31/2016 at 7:02 PM, Loadstar said:

Glad it worked out.....

Thank you for your help!

Quick update on the manifold issue; I'm waiting on a few people to get back to me who may have contacts to build a custom header. I also made a call to Cal Little today, he said he will check to see if he has any manifolds and get back to me tomorrow.

So the place I checked with about the header says they don't work with anything that big, so I'm checking one other place before having my current one fixed.  I pulled one of the spark plugs, and it's a Champion J8C- any idea if this is "correct"? It seems wrong to me, but then again I could be wrong