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Keddie's 2015 silverado fire chief truck

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99silveradoz71 Senior Enthusiast

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Hmm, if our city's chief ever saw this, he'd have one in the garage, ha. The FD definitely does have some nice stuff. I wish we had a pickup for our place, definitely more useful than the suv's that they get and then put large cargo bins in the back of.

high country Enthusiast

high country

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I see nothing but problems with all those scotchloc connectors, they guy that invented them should be strung up. I do like the truck though.

mkeddie Enthusiast

mkeddie

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Nice setup? If I may ask, what dept?

Sheridan fire dept........western NY

I see nothing but problems with all those scotchloc connectors, they guy that invented them should be strung up. I do like the truck though.

Ya they don't work well if the wire sizing isn't right.....I also put dielectric in them to help with weathering works great
high country Enthusiast

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I bought a trailer for my quads and after 1 year half the lights wouldn't work, that thing was chock full of scotchlocs so I ended up rewiring the thing from the tongue to the tail lights.

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Looks great!!

Alfieboy Enthusiast

Alfieboy

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nice..i would have rather soldered stuff.. thank crimps & quick disconnects...just me... on all my personal vehicles and tow trucks for business..stuff gets soldered....very nice tho..:)

Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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You're livin the dream... :D

 

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...just ask me. My 2008 shortly after buying it.

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nibroc92 Enthusiast

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I do installs on trucks I just finished a 2015 Silverado with a rumbler it turned out great

Nick_Z71 Enthusiast

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Hey man this is an amazing set up! Can you clue me in on how you wired those Step Lights? I have them on my truck and did not know you could get them wired like that. Also what type of LED Bar is that on your tail gate?

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My brother is a volunteer with out local fire department and they just recently did up a chev bush truck (Mid 2000's I think). That came after responding to multiple grass and brush calls with most of the guys (including his chief) piling into my brothers dodge to get to the area. Awesome build man, Looks great and I'm sure will serve you well if you do many field and bush calls especially.

mkeddie Enthusiast

mkeddie

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You need a rumbler siren...

Have that in the 04 haven't decided if I get another or swap it over.....not a cheap toy lol

Hey man this is an amazing set up! Can you clue me in on how you wired those Step Lights? I have them on my truck and did not know you could get them wired like that. Also what type of LED Bar is that on your tail gate?

The step lights work as tail/brake/reverse when reverse hits the red goes off so I wired the brakes to the trigger switch and the reverse to a flasher....hard to explain anymore

 

Just a eBay tailgate bar hooked up to a flasher

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mkeddie

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Just ordered the diablo trinity tuner

Exhaust and kicker sub finally installed

And work in progress wrapping the trim

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