On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, P. Stanhope wrote:

> I remember someone was going to build a fiberglass
> shell to go over the bottom of the van, covering up
> all the dips and pockets. A little extreme but since
> our vans ride so high up (especially 85'-older) its
> prolly not such a bad idea...

As someone who owns a diesel van with the metal noise-reduction pan under
the engine, I can tell you that it will seem like a good idea until about
the fourth time you have to remove it to do some kind of maintenance.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon