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I think figuring out a bed is a real challenge for all of us. Every solution I've seen is "good news, bad news". All have something to be said for them, and something to be said against them. Me? Since both my wife and I can snooze sitting up on the sofa, I'm planning to replace the squad bench...

I recently got a chance to replace my Throttle Position Sensor (TPS). This is fastened to the side of the Williams WM540 Electronic Pedal Assembly, and tells the engine what the throttle position is. If it fails, you can idle just fine, and that's all. Since mine probably was original to the...

OUCH! You have my deepest sympathies. The last tires I mounted by hand were 11.00 x 20 military tires, and I quickly remembered why they built tire machines for truck tires.

It sounds to me like freeway speed + military-design tires + 100 degree weather caused the tire to overheat.

This shop is only 2 miles from me, but they're basically a small town kind of operation. They'll tackle about anything, and they tell me that thry like doing things to my ambu-buggy because its different than their usual jobs. Thankfully, they have an OTC wheel stud press. I've reached the age...

Well, I was close at my guesstimate of $100 per wheel for longer studs. Even aftermarket studs (made by Freightliner's supplier) were nearly $9 each (times 32 studs), plus 16 new nuts for the rear at $4.30, plus a shop supplies charge of $8, all totaled up to about $370, plus $75 per hour for 3...

Still looking for the right studs. The truck garage I usually use can press them in OK, but they're having problems tracking down the longer studs. Heaven forbid, I might have to buy them from Freightliner!!

Not a lot happening on the ambulance project lately. I'm still digging through the garage sorting out a 30+ year collection of odds and ends. Some always winds up in the KEEP FOREVER collection, and some winds up in the NEVER TO BE USED collection - but it's the stuff in the middle that needs...

Ambulances are designed to withstand a roll-over accident, and still have the doors open without outside assistance. Since you don't need to comply with ambulance design requirements, you can cut supports to install a window. If you need added support to the outside skin to ensure that the...

I've never seen one with screens on an ambulance, but I'll bet that they offer them with screens.

Both locations are very common for windows. I have Cleer Vision in my ambulance, and I know Braun Ambulance uses them.

A good window supplier is Cleer Vision Windows (https://www.cleervision.com/). They make windows for RVs and also ambulances, and they can supply frames for many different wall thicknesses

That would definitely be one to look at, but with a gross weight of 28,000+, you'd need a CDL until it could be registered as an RV. It might also need re-gearing to be a freeway long-haul vehicle. But it definitely would be a fun rig to own and drive!

It's definitely different. PL Custom makes an excellent ambulance, though.

If you're looking for a license plate light, check out Tecniq license plate lights on Amazon. Tecniq is a Michigan manufacturer of LED lighting with an excellent product line. Their emergency vehicle lighting is showing up increasingly often on fire equipment and on ambulances (No, I don't work...

You might consider becoming an ambulance dealer. Medium ambulances seem to be an east coast phenomenon, so the market out west is probably wide open....

I learned many years ago that anything prepared at a fuel stop is bad news (after I ran into some prehistoric hot dogs), and that also includes packaged sandwiches. I'll look for a McD's and go there instead. Not a lot of flavor, but the food is usually fairly sanitary.

The shark fin is probably an antenna - I've seen versions that are UHF and that are VHF

And just to show that one way or another, it can be done:

I'm a member of an emergency vehicle upfitter's group, and this question comes up periodically. Generally, most police vehicles have gutter mounted light bars. These vehicles are in daily use, and have a relatively short life in a municipal fleet, so resale can be a concern. Increasingly...