I finally got the kitchen/seat/watertank pulled out of my '88 Westy for the first
time, to get a good look at the seams etc on the hookups. Guess what - it's
way better than I expected! Very little rust around the water/power cutouts,
and not much elsewhere either. I was expecting the worst after finding a rust
bubble that went right through the floor just ahead of the sink drain last year.
It appears this was an isolated bubble starting from the outside, not the
common prolific cancer from the inside caused by leaking hookups. I will
seal it all up with POR-15 and count myself lucky! For a 400k km van from
Ontario, I'm quite amazed how good it looks in there. :-)

Shawn Wright
http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
'85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA