pic: 2823 Offseason WCD Test Chassis

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Originally Posted by mrwright

One of the things that I noticed is your belly pan appears to be attached directly to the bottom of your rails. We did this a couple of times and the screws eventually came loose and the belly pan dropped out of the bottom.

I would make sure that you have plenty of support especially around the battery. You could possibly attach some angle brackets (like in your corners) and mount the belly pan to them.

Also, does your cutout for the gearboxes have enough clearance to remove them without dropping the pan out?

It is really difficult to drop a gearbox out of the bottom of a belly pan, by the time that you pull the axle out of the tube you would need to remove most if not all of the center section of the belly pan. You really need a custom interface between the gearbox and the output shaft for that to work.