
Build diary · Step 05
Everything comes to an end. But this is only the beginning.
Everything has an end – except a sausage, which has two.
The body has to come off so I can inspect the frame closely and prepare the truck for the later GRP habitation box.
By chance, a company with a 12-tonne crane on a Mercedes-Benz Axor happened to be on the site where the truck is parked ... the perfect combination to lift the thing off.
To prepare, I disconnected the cables, compressed-air lines and bolted joints of the fire-engine body. Then we wanted to lift the body together with the subframe. But the darn thing wouldn’t budge ...
So out came the angle grinder to quickly cut some access to the bolts connecting the body to the subframe. Then those bolts could be undone, and after some back and forth the body came loose. It floated through the air onto its new owner’s truck.
Since the lift didn’t go as planned and I spent most of the time loosening the last connections under time pressure, most of the pictures were unfortunately just taken in between on my iPhone.







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