Ok, firebolters I've worked out a deal with a fellow bolter who has just purchased a nice low mileage 48 firetruck but he was just looking for a flatbed. The theory is that he's driving the truck up to my place this weekend where we'll remove it's bed, pump, lights, etc and install a flatbed and he'll head on down the road as he doesn't have anyplace to do the swap back home and he doesn't have a place to store the firebolt parts until he can sell them so the bed and parts would have to go right to scrap. The truck is a mid pump setup and he mentioned something today I hadn't factored into the plan. He said it has a short drive shaft from the trans to the pump then another drive shaft from the pump to the rear end. Being that my firebolt has the pump out front and I've not layed under very many firebolts this was a setup that I didn't realize existed I always assumed that the mid pumps just ran off the regular PTO. That said my hope and question here is that when we remove the pump and the associated short shafts can we swap in a driveshaft from a similar wheelbase big bolt? The other factor is he tells me that the truck also has a 5 speed trans.
Here's some pics of the truck where it set.
https://plus.google.com/photos/110211271593344394189/albums/5699849278559087937Mongo
