Date:         Sat, 11 May 2002 12:09:41 EDT
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      Re: 3 passenger front seating for Vanagon Westy
Comments: To: pokey@VANAGON.ORG
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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