Oops, continuing....The warning here is to take a good look at what you
have beneath that floor. The battery vent holes were a total hack job.
Crooked with gnarly, twisted edges and filled with gobs of sealant. The
hole, cut just behind the driver's battery box has quite a story to tell.
They first missed and cut the floor above the beam that runs the length of
the van. I don't know what they were using to make these cuts, but this was
all twisted too. They pounded this down and filled with goop. I removed the
goop and pulled up the flooring to inspect the inside of the beam cavity
and found no rust. That's some good goop. They then moved to the inboard
side of the beam and made another nasty, crooked cut, but fortunately they
were on target. Then they made four more cuts, clean through the floor,
just inboard of those, about six inches in length and covered these with
goop. These are very uniform in that they follow the floor pattern.
I am very disappointed and now look forward to some moderate repairs,
although a good shop will resolve this easily. I am fortunate that NONE of
these leaked in all these years, but I wonder and am concerned for those
who have not looked beneath their crappy AW parquet floors. I always
suspected that, minus the AW high roof, these conversions are a hack job....
Miguel

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>wrote:

> A heads up to Adventurewagen owners. Sick and tired of the antiquated,
> poorly designed AW interior inside of Fritz, I removed the cabinets and
> flooring this week. The mystery of the day was 'rust, or no rust....' The
> parquet flooring was held down by gobs of black polyurethane, as expected,
> and there was zero rust on the panel which typically gets rusted up by the
> Westy fill port and zero rust above the rocker. None of the AW water
> system, or drains, leaked. Kind of a miracle, after all these years.78
> Miguel
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