Finally, the work on the frame begins! First thing on the list was to replace 2 badly rotted cross-members near the front. A local fabrication shop made the channel for me. A plasma torch and a buddys welding skills, and Im off.
Next up: the curved outriggers. Its a snap to make them. C-clamp them to one of the outriggers on the frame, and use it as a template for the plasma torch. Then grind it relatively smooth, and youre done.
Finally, I never did like the lack of support on the back corners, particularly where the toilet sits, so I fabbed up a few shorter outriggers, like those on the longer bodies, just to give it that little bit extra support. They are only 10 long, and do not have curved ends, like the longer 15 ones do. I doubt they will even touch the belly pan anyway. Whether it REALLY needs them or not is up in the air, but the cost of these parts was so ridiculously cheap, I figured, why not? I still have to grind the welds down on all the out-riggers.
I'm not totally done yet. Once the tanks come in, I can put the remaining cross-members in, and I still have some detail stuff to do on what's there, but it's probably half-way?