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Re: Spit shell wanted

To: "Luke Lewis" <superluke@execulink.com>
Subject: Re: Spit shell wanted
From: doug@dougbraun.com
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:02:42 -0400
> (If anyone else has had the problem of the gas tank splitting at the seams 
>due to
>body flexing - turns out it's not meant to be a stressed member :-) )

Actually I read once, in something reasonably authoritative (a real hardcover 
book,
not on the Internet), that the gas tank WAS meant to stiffen up the rear of the 
body.

Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have bolted it in place so firmly...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit 


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