Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
> your idea for a short trip is fine.
> just need good tie-down points. ...
> I like to mount inverted hooks in two spots on the right side of the van ..
> one near the rear vent up high, one on the pillar between sliding door
> and front passenger's door ..up high, so I can tie large loads down to
> those inverted hooks..

How you mount them hooks? Sheet metal screws? Otherwise a fellow would
have to pull the paneling loose to get behind them and put in
nuts/washers. Smoosh some RTV behind the hooks to keep water out, maybe?

Thanks to everyone for tolerating my questions about things like this.
Many of you have years and years of experience working on automobiles,
and doing swell stuff like welding, taking engines apart, drinkin' beers
while skinnin' knuckles pulling ball joints, and otherwise being manly.
We love our Westy for camping and I do what I can with my meager skills
to improve it and do minor repairs, but I really don't have what you
might call a background in the automotive sciences. I have tended to buy
decent used cars, mainly imports, drive them until some expensive part
fails, then buy another. Like that time I had a 17 year old 1982
Mercedes sedan/boat which managed to get me to where I needed to go and
then one day the mechanic said that the freeze plugs (that the right
word?) in the engine were leaking and I'd better get rid of the car real
soon. My past is littered with cars that were fairly junky when I bought
them, and junkier still when I sold them. Smelled funny, too.
--
Rocky J Squirrel
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
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