> > 2. Rear facing jump seat install > Following Chris' advice, I just spent > 2 hours searching the archives. > There are certainly > a lot of references to jump seats, but finding a real reference to the > install is like > finding a needle in a haystack... > Best I can come up with is to install brass cups in the floor (cut holes > in the wood Westy > subfloor), or weld/bolt in the real brackets from a donor van. I'm not > convinced that the brass > cups would be strong enough in the event of an accident so I prefer to go > the second approach. > If anyone has a pair of the floor brackets (from a junkyard van?), that > would be great.
As I recall from looking at my factory rear-facing seats, the "real brackets" ARE only small metal cups welded to the floor. From the look of how the seats are affixed in general, the cups are intended to do little more than keep the seat aligned. The real work of holding the seats in place is done by the steel square tube brackets bolted to the front seat pedestals that they snap into with that big spring-loaded steel pin. And the passengers sitting in them, they're strapped down to the frame of the vehicle, not the seat anyway. -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" |
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