What will $10 buy you?VIDEO ADDED!

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

A 54" Dietz Omni-Chief of course! I snagged this bad boy for exactly $10, The Pictures don't really show it, but it was in rough shape. I Hope you enjoy my quick restoration job on it, I had a lot of fun on this one for sure. Unfortunately It is still incomplete, I still need a set of bands/belts for it!!! The lightbar as I received it:

More Pictures in the Following post!

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

Here it is! The finished product!

Thanks for looking Guys and Gals! It makes me so happy to see this come full-circle.

 

[solid_snake]

WOW!very good job and very nice bar!Like new!WOW!

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

WOW!very good job and very nice bar!Like new!WOW!

Thank you VERY much! I worked really hard on it! It was a really fun project!

 

[PinballCharlie]

WOW, what a nice restoration!!!

 

[Torpedo]

WOW, what a nice restoration!!!

And carried out with a quickness. Nice work!!

 

[dmathieu]

Beautiful!!!!!

 

[stansdds]

Beautiful restoration, now you just have to come up with some sort of belt system to turn the rotators. :thumbsup:

 

[EHFD_Tower_751]

add red domes to it,, and you'll have a dual cali steady burn red lightbar .


looks really nice also, and not bad for $10

 

[tsquale]

Can't beat that for $10 and some elbow grease!

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

WOW, what a nice restoration!!!

And carried out with a quickness. Nice work!!

Beautiful!!!!!

Beautiful restoration, now you just have to come up with some sort of belt system to turn the rotators. :thumbsup:

add red domes to it,, and you'll have a dual cali steady burn red lightbar .


looks really nice also, and not bad for $10

Can't beat that for $10 and some elbow grease!

Thanks a lot Guys!!!!! Very kind words from people that I Really admire. I'm not used to hearing my projects get called beautiful.

 

[JennyCop]

Looks amazing! :yes: great job on the restoration. :thumbsup:

 

[rick h.]

Fantastic restoration

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

Well, I didn't feel like waiting around for NOS bands/belts, So I made My own. I went to my local Advance auto parts store and discussed what I was looking for with an employee, who was very helpful and after a long discussion, he went in the back room and brought out a spool of 3/32 vacuum tubing.



VIDEO! Enjoy!

 

[JennyCop]

Great improvising! I loved your video the bar makes an awesome light show, but it needed some music to dance to! Shaking your booty to a great beat while enjoying a light show is the only way to do it!


:celebrate: :dance:

 

[stansdds]

That is a great restoration and nice job of engineering replacement drive belts. :hail:

 

[dmathieu]

Great restoration, and excellent innovation!

 

[Hoser]

Good Job, Looks great and you cant beat the price.

 

[Torpedo]

Mad MacGyver skills. That vacuum tubing will no doubt out last the O ring stock I had earlier suggested. Great solution!


And with a quickness.

 

[tsquale]

WOW! I am very impressed with how quickly you came up with a solution to get it running again. & you included step by step instructions AND a video!! Member of the Month right here folks! :hail:

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

Great improvising! I loved your video the bar makes an awesome light show, but it needed some music to dance to! Shaking your booty to a great beat while enjoying a light show is the only way to do it!

:celebrate: :dance:

Here you go Jenny, Will this suffice? And Thank You.

I don't even know what to say to that, I am truly Honored... :faint: A BIG Thank You to all of those that have said kind words and visited this thread! I hope I can inspire others to tear into their lights and produce their own fixes. You guys are the best! :thumbsup:

 

[ERIC6913]

Well from a restoration expert myself i must say you are on your way (and definitely caught the bug) to becoming a restoration specialist yourself! Nice job mister!

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

Well from a restoration expert myself i must say you are on your way (and definitely caught the bug) to becoming a restoration specialist yourself! Nice job mister!

Wow, that means so much to me coming from You! :hail: Thank you Very much!!!!!

 

[EHFD_Tower_751]

its kind of ironic.....the bar doesnt have flashers in it, but just how the lights when they're rotating hit the mirrors...............makes it look like it has flashers.


Nice improvision on making belts for it

 

[CrownVic97]

You just gave hope to whoever has one of these Omni-Chiefs that doesn't have good belts or no belts. Awesome resto work there, sir:thumbsup: !

 

[FF/EMT-B HADEN]

its kind of ironic.....the bar doesnt have flashers in it, but just how the lights when they're rotating hit the mirrors...............makes it look like it has flashers.


Nice improvision on making belts for it

I just noticed that looking at the video again, that is kind of funny. :haha:

You just gave hope to whoever has one of these Omni-Chiefs that doesn't have good belts or no belts. Awesome resto work there, sir:thumbsup: !

I couldn't stand to put the bar up on the wall knowing it wasn't finished 100%, and knowing that I would have a hard time finding belts, I got to work and made something! :haha:


I really hope other people with Omni-Chief's will find this thread and I hope it helps them finish Their bars. I know how it feels to have no hope for finishing a bar and then to have a readily available, easy to make, and cheap replacement come along... Priceless!!! :celebrate: :dance: Thank you for the kind words!!!

 

[ex416]

you sure did an awesome job in bringing that bar back to life. :2thumbs:

 

[LRGJr72]

My dad leased a new wrecker for one of his service stations back around 77-78. I remember several things about it. After the heavy rubber smell inside the fresh new cab I most remember the Dietz Omni-Chief lightbar (amber/amber). Seeing this restored Omni-Chief all lit up COMPLETELY reminds of what ours looked like (the profile, the exact flash patters, etc) almost four decades ago. And it is amazing to me how performance-impressive the simple design was. No step mirrors. Just a pair of rotators located midway on each end with v-mirrors. HUGE kudos, by the way, on the rotor-belt innovation. That might be even better than the original Dietz belts. Thanks for sharing!!

 

[MESDA6]

Gorgeous! That's what a real lightbar looks like! Congratulations!

 

[Peter F]

The Omni chief I had had the rotators spinning in different directions. This is accomolished by crossing over one of the rubber belts.This will spin them in opposite directions. Very nice rebuild.

 

[RES347CUE]

Man $10.00 is a friggin score !!!


And those mirrors pop a lot of shine nice job

 

[black94ta]

I Know the moderator is gonna hate me but is there any way to see the pics please

 

[Tony P]

I Know the moderator is gonna hate me but is there any way to see the pics please

Those were also "dead linked" behind the scenes during the software swap. Sometimes members have had luck finding them via the Wayback Machine online. The member who posted them has not been on here in over a year so its unlikely they will return to post them

 

[black94ta]

Thank you