[Richard]

As I played under the front end over the years, I would look at those tanks and think about what I would do if one of them started to leak. I knew it was always a possibility because I had done something similar to the screw in the hole trick on a Newell back in 2015.

I thought about scab welding a patch on the entire bottom of the tank. After all if it’s rusted through in one place, the remainder of the bottom of the tank is likely compromised. To do that right was probably beyond my welding skills, and would require hydro testing of the tank in place to do it right.

Then this idea hit me. use the plasma to cut out the existing tank. Then use two smaller tanks that would snake between the opening in the frame. Interconnect them with about a 1’ hose, so that you would end up with about the same volume.

I just didn’t have the space in one of the forward bays for mounting a remote tank.