Pan 4
Thanks everyone for the comments and encouragement.
This pan was a challenge because the A/C condenser is mounted parallel with the body on the driver’s side and blows air out the bottom of the pan. I went to a local construction/demolition resale company and bought a couple of long louvers and joined them together so the condenser can vent hot air out the bottom.
I’m also hoping air coming from the front grille area will exit here if it doesn’t have the opportunity to do so before it gets this far.
The white thing in the second to last photo is a video camera. It keeps an eye out for rocks stuck in the left duallies when off roading. It also checks ground clearance, and is a video version of a low tire pressure sensor system. This gives great piece of mind when you’re running down the road and wonder if one of your duallies is going flat. I run a quad monitor that does split screens so when I’m off roading I can run the left and right dually cams side by side on the monitor and check them periodically as we go down the road. These two cameras have saved my tires from damage from stuck rocks many times.
This vehicle also has a pan and tilt camera on the back, two on the roof (one looking forward and one looking rearward), and one on each side mirror. That’s what I do for a living so this vehicle is a rolling test platform for cameras.
When I test drive this the first time with the new pans on it, the left and right dually cams will be my eyes underneath to make sure the various pans are holding together on the freeway.
The last shot is of my attempts at limiting the air coming in the front grille and openings. I have a secret weapon for testing minimal air openings. A couple of years ago when I bought this vehicle I fabbed a sprayer tube and mounted it in front of the radiator in case it ever over heated hauling my toys in the mountains. It’s tapped into the coach water supply and uses the coach water pump to pressurize the system. If I overdue the grille closure all I have to do is turn on the sprayer and the temp drops like a rock. I love it.
Next up is the center pan, and the dreaded rear differential.