My truck came equipped with six aluminum tube grab rails of various lengths and shapes. There were an angled pair on the back doors, one on the side door as well as two, two foot straight handrails mounted to the ceiling and a single six foot rail just above the squad bench. These were in…
Category: Cleaning
Horns of Plenty
You may have noticed the big shiny chrome trumpets on the front fenders. These are emergency air horns, which are similar to truck and train horns except they apparently have a different tone, designed to be even more annoying and attention-grabbing with what the manufacturer dubs “Stuttertone”. They’re made by a company in Los Angeles…
Finishing Touches
There is a seemingly endless number of things to polish on the truck and the more I polish the more things I find that need polishing. By far, the biggest time suck has been the 78 light heads on the exterior of the vehicle. My original intent was to leave this task until much later,…
Wax On, Wax Off
Besides the window polishing, I’ve also been polishing the many, many plastic lenses covering the various emergency strobes, turn signals, scene, reverse, brake and intersection lights spread all over the truck. Some of these were in okay condition, but many of them were over-tightened resulting in stress cracks and most have fogging from sun damage….
Dolt on the Roof
While I wait for my solar panels I’ve been cleaning up the module roof from the damage done by the old A/C housing guard. Most of it was scratches and a yellowing of the paint where debris accumulated. There were also a couple of inexplicable deep gouges toward the rear that I wanted to at…
Speed Holes
Today I spent a couple of hours removing sealant from three holes in the cab roof. I’m not sure what these holes were used for, but I’m guessing it was various types of antenna. They were definitely added after the ambulance was delivered because they are absolute butchery as far as putting a hole in…
Glass Polishing
Yet another issue I had to deal with is water spots on windows. While this seems like a trivial problem, it turned out to be anything but as these are the water spots from hell. I initially washed the inside and outside of all the windows thinking it was just built-up grime from sitting outside…