In a message dated 5/11/02 11:31:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pokey@VANAGON.ORG writes:
> 1) The bench seat is hinged and won't stay upright on its > own. I am not sure how to secure it. Ideally, I'd like > something that could be removable. > > 2) I have the seatbelts but I am not sure where to mount > them. The lock portion of the passenger belt is now hidden > by the middle part of the bench. The middle passenger has a > lap belt. > > use a flexible rear seatbelt, from the back seat of a vanagon..the female part.. i have some for sale. feed it up thru the crack between the seatback and bottom. as for the front seatback, i ended up fabbing and bolting a post out from the pass B pillar, and bolting a post to the drivers right seatback..with a latch like one of those gate latches.. :<) rather crude, but effective. the ideal situation would to be take a seatback release catch mechanism from a 2 door vw golf, etc with the flip front seats and mod it to work on the 2 person front vanagon seat..with some ingenuity, it can be done.. chris |
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