Nice lookin job RJ. I removed close to that amount of debris from under my
'66 TW. Working in your driveway like that cannot be fun! Your neighbors must
have had a conniption!
Did you sandblast the frame from underneath? Or did you use POR 15 or equivalent?
WAM
> The 3 tanks are suspended between the two frame rails on 1x2 upward facing U
> channels. They extend below the bottom of the frame by another 7". Since I replaced
> all the belly skin in the back, I just ran the new skin up to the tanks, securing it
> to the lower face of the U channel. Nice clean look. If you try and limit the depth
> of a tank to the thickness of the frame, you only get a flat bottomed 3 3/4" tank,
> which doesn't drain well and will have other "inlet issues" that plague many of the
> older "top of the floor" tanks.
> Some better picts can be found at the bottom of the belly skin section and the leveling
> jack sections:
> http://vintageairstream.com/floyd/restoration/belly/belly.html
> http://vintageairstream.com/floyd/restoration/levelers/levelers.html
>
> Best of luck,
> RJ