Does your pop top have belly pans?

[sparkywig]

What small hole for sink vent????

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whs :?

 

[Clem]

What small hole for sink vent????

To comply with housing regulations (!) Westys from 1970ish had sink drain venting fitted, to allow the u-bend to air itself and remain clean. The vent exits through the roof and is covered by a plastic cover embossed with the Westfalia Horse on it. Hidden on pop-top vans but easily visible on tin tops.

 

[sparkywig]

What small hole for sink vent????

To comply with housing regulations (!) Westys from 1970ish had sink drain venting fitted, to allow the u-bend to air itself and remain clean. The vent exits through the roof and is covered by a plastic cover embossed with the Westfalia Horse on it. Hidden on pop-top vans but easily visible on tin tops.

Oh, right

 

[AGC]

I just KNEW that someone would know

 

[chippi]

tintop for me and i dont mind crouching either and i have the dreaded belly pans too

 

[mginty]

If it helps I've got a 70 Dormobile (pop top) that had belly pans on. It's recently gone to be restored and the guys doing the resto recommended not to bother putting them back on (they took them off to do the resto). Their reasoning was that you couldn't see if anything was rotting underneath between the pan and the chassis. They've been working on VWs for years so I bowed to their expertise and kept them off. As it happens, not much of the floor & chassis needed much work where the pans had been and I don't think they had ever been removed so six of one half dozen of the other maybe?

 

[VeeDubMan]

I've got a '71 Dormobile and never been a big fan of the belly pans. Look what happens when water gets stuck in there:

I'm leaving mine off but having read the rest of the thread about M-codes and structural rigidity, I may fit something else in place of belly-pans to add some strength back in.

I really want to fit a couple of water tanks (fresh and waste), so can't put the belly pans back on anyway.