Recent content by cheesehead dave

We accomplished your battery conversion today on our Brush Truck following your video to the T and it worked as advertised. Thank you. Cheesehead Dave. Crooked Lake Volunteer Fire Department.

When we push the Red start button the starter engages and disengages constantly (chatters). We can start it by bypassing the start system and jumping the frame mounted solenoid. we tried changing the starter relay with no change. Any Ideas?

Thank you. Sounds like a plan.

Found a 5 pin relay in the K1 start relay slot. Should have been a 4 pin relay. Installed 4 pin relay and it fired right up with the red button. We also did the mod on the starter to bypass the starter thermal switch (P81). Drove the M1078 for an hour. Stopped and started the engine several...

Does anyone know or have a picture of where the neutral safety switch is on the M1078 LMTV?

Had problems starting our M1078. Bypassed red start button with another start button wired directly to the frame mounted start solenoid. After the first start, the thermal switch on the starter prevented additional starts. As suggested in a previous thread we tied the two white wires for the...

Red button would not start the M1078. Ran a separate start button to the frame mounted start solenoid. That worked until we ran into the starter thermal switch problem. We tied the two white wires together as suggested and that allowed the red start button to work again. Ran into the thermal...

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Could you give me a quick overview of your bypass wiring. We went to the hot side of the start solenoid back to a push button switch then back to the start solenoid with a 20 amp fuse in between. Works great. What do you think?

Engine would not crank. Suspect neutral safety switch. Don't know where it's at. Bypassed by running a push button switch to the remote start solenoid. Works great, but would like to do it the right way. Where is the neutral switch located? Thanks.

Our fire department obtained an M1078 to be used as a brush truck. We want to paint the cab red and put our logo's on the doors. I know nothing about the paint. Can we simply sand it, apply a primer, then paint over the primer. If so, what type of paint and primer should we use. Is the current...

Our volunteer fire department is getting a surplus M1078 to be used as a brush truck. We've ordered a 250 gallon slide in pump pallet for use on it. I'm wondering if the 12V system aboard the truck has enough amperage to operate a hose real and a 13 hp gas engine starter. Otherwise I'll have to...