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Medium ambulances are designed to collapse the air suspension for loading. The collapse is triggered by opening the rear doors, and generally also by a switch on the driver's console and often by a switch by the rear doors. Installing oversize tires increases the loading height, though.

Mine is a Medic Master body on a Freightliner FL60 chassis. GVW is 20,000, empty it's at 14,000. When I bought it, we had 1000# of parts loaded on the driver's side for the return trip, but the air suspension kept it level. The loading height is as per the Federal standard, KKK-1822 (Google for...

Wow! I didn't realize they were 75 watts! Ambulances with halogen lights should have enough room behind the lights for fins, but you won't have much air flow. At the price you mentioned, they may well be more failure-prone than a heavy duty LED

Since you're replacing a 50 watt halogen bulb that survived in the fixture without ventilation, I don't think you'll have a heat problem

I've seen other people fight with Whelen conversions, and I'm betting you'll have to cut a square hole in the 900 reflector, and then epoxy the LED into place.

With the Wabco ABS system, it's normal for the light to be on when you start -- after you pass 5 mph or so, the light should go out. Re: service-- find an independent shop - the cost will be a lot less than the dealer. A dealer may give you fleet price on parts if you ask

Ozzrockrat installed the same generator a few years ago on his Freightliner medium ambulance- he installed it between the frame rails below the rear doors, with access through a door he added right above the rear bumper. Look it up here on the Expedition Portal

Obviously, great minds think alike! When I downloaded the manual for the ram-type jack from their web site, I saw the same parts on both. I have a mill, lathe, and welders, so I can build / modify as needed.

On to Plan-B.... I'd purchased a Bogert HUMMWV jack to carry on-board, but I goofed. First, it weighed 70#, and second, it took up a lot of space in its heavy canvas bag. I had thought about selling it, but then I took a look at the Bogert International web site, and I saw that they sell a...

Mine is on a Freightliner FL60 chassis -- 14,100 empty, 20,000 gross. Empty is complete with the ambulance interior.

Pat had had circulation problems for years. He had been the DoD fire chief for the Pensacola area, and his weight went up after he retired. He did everything to the levels he was used to in the FD, and I was the same way since I retired from running a military test lab. We emailed daily, and I...

Yup - Murphy rules!

Do a Google search on the HUMMWV jack - the manufacturer has othrr jacks and accessories

Ok - I'm in St Paul --- Murphy's Law says you're in Oregon, Florida, Newfoundland, or Guam.....

Pat died before we figured anything out. Since my back hasn't been behaving for months (and probably never will), I've decided to sell my own HUMMWV Bogert jack -- it's too heavy for me to work with any longer. Instead, I'll avoid driving off-road, and go back to my hydraulic jacks and 2x8x16...

Pat was one of my best friends-we'd email several times a day, and regularly bounced ideas off each other. He was a retired DoD fire chief for the Pensacola NAS, and he and I both had a common background working with military requirements. Pat had become very heavy, and had circulation problems...

I haven't posted for a while -- I'm still alive, but up to my tuccus in alligators. Been doing lottsa home stuff, (plus getting my HAM license), but still planning and stocking supplies for the build. The refrigerator and Broan heater are still happening, but since they are literally next to...

Someone needed the VMUX data more than I did, and they went down the road before I ever got them scanned (they were physically large drawings, and I was squeaking over the per square foot scanning price I'd been quoted). BUT, it you have a Medic Master, you can still be in luck. The ex-chief...

The clearance lights can also cause a drain - it's common to wire the front corner clearance light on the driver's side to stay ON if the vehicle battery switch is ON. That lets someone walking by see if the vehicle power is still ON

Years ago, I ran a railroad shop that had an 80x300 ft building for passenger car storage. The "north wall" was the storage place for things that didn't fit into any normal category, (sometimes too awkward to fit on a pallet, sometimes a complete assembly). Some pallet racking plus some...