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64thunderbolt
Explorer II
Jun 20, 2013

fresh water tank

Just finished remounting the frt of my fresh tank that was sagging about 4 " and ready to meet the road. What were they thinking? Poorist job of fabrication I have ever seen. I didn't remove the fact stuff. I just jacked it up to the orig position and put a pc of 2x2x1/4" sq tube across the frame then used 2x2x1/4 angle to tie into the orig angles that were trying to support it. It may break the frame but it's not coming out. Didn't get pics. It was 106* when I was under there welding and a camera was not on my mind.

Keystone was careless & irresponsable dropping a 122 gal tank into that piece of garbage that Lippert gave them. Swore I would never buy a Keystone but I got a great deal on it. It's still a good deal I'm just dissapointed in the quality accepted by them from the chassis mfg.
  • It probably would have lasted forever if you hadn't put water in it. What were you thinking?
    Dave
  • LOL I guess I was having one of my senior moments.

    Is this as common as I think? The tank not my moments, LOL
  • Must not have been among the WORST installations since the forums are full of reports where they actually fell out :) Good catch though.
  • WOW. Mine seemed like it was getting close. Made me nervous enough to remedy the crap.
  • Our Thor had some pretty krappy mounts and when they sagged it popped the heads off the sheet metal screws. Reinforced the angle iron and put bolts/washers/nuts where it attached to the frame. The angle iron they used was more suited for a bed frame. One tank dropped down and was riding on the axel :E
  • BobWanderer wrote:
    Our Thor had some pretty krappy mounts and when they sagged it popped the heads off the sheet metal screws. Reinforced the angle iron and put bolts/washers/nuts where it attached to the frame. The angle iron they used was more suited for a bed frame. One tank dropped down and was riding on the axel :E


    Wow. Mine had bent plate. Angle would have been better. It's good now, LOL. I over killed it big time. Lucky it was above the axle. My 122 gal is like most TH's it's completely in frt of the axles to compinsate for the wgt of the toys in back. It would have just flopped on the rd.