Date:         Sat, 17 May 2003 15:09:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Leon Korkin <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Leon Korkin <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Front seat swap?
Comments: To: BPAULTR3@AOL.COM
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I recently installed passenger seat from Subaru Legacy greatly helped by
low cost of $20 at local PYP sale.
Seat was in exellent shape but it took some work. Definitely WORTH IT.
Not only it slides very smoothly and easily, but it reclines almost to
horizontal position at a flip of the lever.
Great when backseat is occupied and you want to take a nap.
Had to remove all "extra" metal from seat, ground off tracks from
turntable using B&D rotary tool and prybar.
Drilled holes and used spacers to attach seat tracks to turntable.
As soon as i installed seat my wife asked: "where are armrests?" Subaru
seat didn't have those.
This took one more trip to PYP and 2 brown armrests were removed from
otherwise stripped Vanagon.
This was harder than installing seat itself and required fabrication of
metal brackets and attaching armrests.
But in the end it all works well and seat is big improvement.
Wish i could use one of those on a driver side but stove cabinet behind
limits it's usefullness.
Leon
85 Subwagen

Bob Paul wrote:

>The front seats on the 84 are pretty well gone inside. The springs are a
>little hard on the back.  I can get them rebuilt but new cushy seats for long
>distances might be nice.  Anyone have a tip on an easy swap for a more
>comfortable set of seats?
>Bob
>PS. Think I responded to everyone re earlier questions but just in case,
>thanks for all the good info.  Anyone need help with a TR2 or 3, Morgan Three
>Wheeler, Morris Minor or  Miata, give me a shout.
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>Bob
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