Scaleart - assembling an Arocs 8x8 roll on roll off kipper

[Rakthi]

Today appointments got cancelled and it rained so no painting the front door ... meaning I could do some stuff to the Arocs.

First replace the bits I mucked up drilling out the screws. A bit of a fiddle with all the hydraulic lines installed, but all in all doable. Good thing I re-ordered the screws because seriously messed up the head of the countersunk screw due to the loctite used. Should have heated the screw with a soldering iron to loosen the loctite.



Replaced them one side at the time.

Here the worst one with the replacement. Replacement is gloss and looks better finished.





Had to take the fenders of to do this repair. Painted the screws holding them together black - something I picked up from Christian. Looks much better this way.



Then had to adjust the tracking rods on the rear axle. In the manual they indicated about 50mm, so shortened them to 48.5 mm. Not so easy to get those track rods off. Good thing I have a flexible screw driver.





Then replace the off-road tires to street tires.





Could have shortened the tracking rod a bit more, but still better than before.



And everything back in place and working.





That's it.