Snagger
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The problem is the level of the body immediately behind the seat base. On utility 109s (such as most MoD vehicles), the area of the tub floor between that bolting flange and the tub bulkhead (the shelf where the seat belt anchors are) is level with the back edge of the seat base, about 3/4" above the tub floor. On a SW, it drops vertically for the second row foot well. Certainly, some ambulances have a drop here in the floor level for the ambulance nody, but some may have a matching level to clear the fuel tanks.
The work-round is to have fuel tanks with the corner notched out or to have shorter fuel tanks with long rear brackets to reach the same outrigger span.
I'd be interested to hear what you find, Matt. I've never had a close look at an ambulance, though my friend has worked on plenty, including coming a cropper when trying to replace the fuel tanks on an old one. 88s use tanks of the same dimensions, the variation being the filler neck, and they don't have that ledge btween the bulkhead and seatbase, and Camel Trophy D110s had a single Series military tank under the right side front seat (or at least some of the late ones did - the one that was on the Alps trip with me, cracking the forward mounting outrigger off road).
The work-round is to have fuel tanks with the corner notched out or to have shorter fuel tanks with long rear brackets to reach the same outrigger span.
I'd be interested to hear what you find, Matt. I've never had a close look at an ambulance, though my friend has worked on plenty, including coming a cropper when trying to replace the fuel tanks on an old one. 88s use tanks of the same dimensions, the variation being the filler neck, and they don't have that ledge btween the bulkhead and seatbase, and Camel Trophy D110s had a single Series military tank under the right side front seat (or at least some of the late ones did - the one that was on the Alps trip with me, cracking the forward mounting outrigger off road).
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