that rusting from the top is actually rusting up from inside that V brace that's original underneath, which is the only "doubling" - always the first place to go because of the road crud that gets caught in there - good idea to spray inside the new one thoroughly with something like rock-gard or epoxy primer

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics