Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:25:21 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Seat/Bed Swap
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" The 2 hinge straps need holes and
> there are I think at least 2 of the base holes than can be drilled and
> bolted through the floor."
Sounds strange to me. I put a Z bed into an 85 2WD vanagon .......
it bolted right in, with the exception of those bolt like things that stick
out of the sides of the van, that the top of the rear seat latches to.
Those weren't in the right place. But the seat works fine ............in
both modes, seat and bed ..........the seat back isn't latched firmly, is
all that's not perfect.
I'll be lifting up the side paneling to see if the right threaded holes are
in the body .........they should be.
But I sure didn't bolt anything to the floor, not drilling or anything like
that.
I'm surprised your 87 syncro is like that Brendan. Is it a regular 'full'
US model ?
is it a GL ? ..........perhaps it's a non-GL 7 passenger one, and that's why
it has the lame rear seat set up. And you're SURE, right ?
the seat back will flip forward ..........like the earlier non-Z bed seat
backs will.
Also..........a major advantage of the Z bed, just as a seat, never mind
it being a bed...........it's flat-ish on the bottom, like a couch
is,.........so you can sit on it here or there, like you would camping or
eathing inside. The non Z bed rear seat .............the GL ones for sure
........are made like 3 bucket seats, which is not conducive to sitting
there at your table drinking your coffee, where'd you'd rather have a flat
couch like thing.
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Slevin" <totorovan@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Seat/Bed Swap
> Ah ha! That makes sense from what I've looked at in the vans. I think
> I'll
> wait until I find a good z-bed in gray that matches instead of fitting the
> blue zbed from the 84.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brendan
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> If you won't drill holes it won't work. The 2 hinge straps need holes and
>> there are I think at least 2 of the base holes than can be drilled and
>> bolted through the floor.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> Brendan Slevin wrote:
>>
>>> So I was trying to figure out if I can swap the Z-Bed from the 84
>>> Wolfsburg
>>> in to the 87 Syncro which only has the fold forward seat. It looks like
>>> the
>>> syncro seat will bolt right into the 84, no problem. But the Syncro
>>> lacks
>>> (I think) the threaded holes to bolt the seat bed to the floor of the
>>> van
>>> and to the rear deck of the van. Is it possible at all to fit the Z-bed
>>> to
>>> the syncro? I don't want to do much in the way of drilling/fabricating.
>>>
>>> Brendan
>>>
>>>
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