[Milsurplus] Opinions regarding restoring bathtub capacitors

[Meir WF2U]

Folks,

I picked up an E.H. Scott Navy RCH receiver (same as the SLR-F civilian
nomenclatured receiver). Paid big $42 for it...
It's in pretty decent condition but the initial Variac-aided "smoke test"
shows that at least some bathtubs are not good. They're really not shorting
but I get all kinds of feed back and howling in the audio, and the audio is
intermittent. I also found one of the 4 uF filter caps (oil filled paper
cans)leaking and getting warm, so I took it out I'll stuff that can with the
new cap as it's showing above the chassis.
The receiver when it feels like working right, sounds great, stable and
fairly sensitive (it'll work down to about 60VAC input!).
My dilemma is whether to use the bathtubs - 2 and 3 section - to hide the
new caps under, or whether I should open the tubs and stuff them with new
bypass caps. I can imagine opening a tub like this is a pretty messy job. 
There are something like 10 of them, but no discrete bypass caps, so the
whole thing is really neatly wired and easy to service.
I'm sort of a purist, but who looks at the bottom of the radio under the
chassis?

Opinions please...

Also, does anyone have a scan of the RCH original Navy nomenclature tag from
the front panel ? Mine came with no tag. I guess the SLR-F tag would do as
well..

Thanks,

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC