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Are you kidding???? I'd tell them the smoke from their house going up in flames is alot worse..... Well.... Some of the complaints were made to the county officials who supply our fuel, insurance, and our main budget. Our County Commissioner offered to pay a mechanic to install the turbo for...

EulaVFD#620 Got your PM, will shoot you an email this weekend. Our M35A2 W/W did not come with a turbo. it had the LD-465 in it. We recently added a "D" turbo to it, and adjusted the fuel pump timing for a turbo engine per the manual we have. It runs a lot better now, smoke cut way back...

Batteries problems are a PITA in a deuce firetruck trying to run 12V lightbars, sirens, and radios off of a 24V system. We went to Optima gel cells with the UTL plastic adapters so that the smaller optima's will mount correctly in the deuce battery box, the optima's are a big improvement over...

EulaVFD#620 How many Deuces do you guys run? Yes the drought has been killing us down here as well, we have also spent a lot of time recently working on our two active deuces, luckily we have two volunteers who are diesel mechanics at their regular jobs, and this forum, which is invaluable...

Right now it is a PITA for Texas Volunteer Fire Departments to get trucks from the FEPP ( FEDERAL EXCESS PROPERTY PROGRAM ) as the Texas Forest Service, which oversees the program, is trying to change the way the trucks are distributed. Used to the trucks were given out but remained property...