Bob, OK, I see that now.  So what you found was there was not enough space for the A/C hoses between the tank and the frame without making this modification ?  I wonder what they did in Germany with the vans that had A/C ?  As my understanding was that all vans delivered in Europe had to have these tanks on them.  I'm sure some of those vans had A/C, no ?

On 2012-03-28, at 10:47 PM, Robert Stevens wrote:

> 
> On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Frank Condelli wrote:
> 
>> Bob, OK, so I see some things different in your photos that are not on my installation.  Your tank seems to sit much closer to the frame rail than mine does and the mounting bracket for the frame rail is different. 
> 
> You may have missed another post of mine where I said that when I cut the "notch" section on the top of the tank to
> make room for the A/C hoses, I cut off/removed one of the 3 mount points on the plastic tank. That made it necessary
> to use that SS bracket differently, and that is what has been modified and put on the tank at the frame rail you are
> mentioning.
> 
> bob

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