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Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C
Those are riveted to the tank with a reinforcement inside the tank. Not any good way to replace it without opening the tank. Generally what we find is the rivets have made radial fractures from the rivet holes. The tank and the reinforcing plate need to be welded up and redrilled for the new rivets. Just soldering won't seal it up from my experience.
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BRENT
1.Do you weld up the cracks and enlarged holes in tank, bracket, re-drill rivet holes and assemble re-rivet for strength?
2.Then follow up with solder to make it leak proof?
OR do you weld up everything as the final step and forget the solder?
Just wondering.
I installed the 31 bracket to upper rail to remove stress on lower tank bracket area.
Thanks