Date:         Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:03:33 -0500
Reply-To:     Dylan Spurgin <vanagon@MAIL.SPURGIN.NET>
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From:         Dylan Spurgin <vanagon@MAIL.SPURGIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Have a Seat
Comments: To: George.Becker@SCE.COM
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George,

Did you put the seat facing forwards or backwards?  Got pics?

ds

At 07:37 AM 7/17/2002 -0700, George Becker wrote:
>Rodney Woten wrote:
> >Greetings all!!!!
> >I've noticed all of the talk about jump seats, extra seats, tracks and
>the=20=
> >like=2E  This may be something I'd like to do someday=2E  Has anyone on
>the list=20=
> >actually installed the tracks for the extra seat in a Westy before??
>How=20=
> >difficult is it???  From the pictures I've seen, it looks like they
>mount=20=
> >flush with the floor=2E  Wouldn't that involve some pretty serious
>metal=20=
> >cutting?  Mine's an '87, is it easier/harder to install the tracks in
>any=20=
> >other model year???
>
>I have a 3rd/two passenger seat installed in my '87 Westy. Don't know year
>of donor seat, but probably '86 (had been throne of junkyard dog, but
>cleaned up well).  It's easy to do, but the trick is to cut only through
>the plywood floor without cutting the sheet metal floor pan underneath; a
>really small circular saw would be ideal.  Tracks do mount flush with floor
>and mount with two bolts each.
>
>George Becker
>e-mail: George.Becker@sce.com

Dylan Spurgin
'81 Westy - Elly the Electric Elephant
http://spurgin.net/westy1.htm