Date:         Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:11:28 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
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From:         Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
Subject:      Re: jump seat for camper
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If you purchase a jumpseat make sure that you get the seat, mounting bracket, and seatbelt with buckle.  The bracket bolts to the back of the pedestal that houses the battery and passenger seat(front wheel house).  The seat has a quick release latch that clips into the bracket.  The floor of  a van that came with jumpseats has metal brackets that are basically short tubes welded on for the locating pegs on the bottom of the seat legs to sit in.   Westy owners have to fabricate something for this.  Some people just drill into the wood floor and call it good.  Others build brackets and bolt or weld them on to the floor.  One idea I saw used large allen head bolts secured to the floor and the seat pegs sit in the top of the bolts.  Decide what you will do for the floor brackets before mounting the rear one as they may affect its placement.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:33 am
Subject: jump seat for camper
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> I am considering finding and installing a jump seat (behind the front
> passenger seat) in my '91 GL Camper.  Has anyone done this?  This
> modelhas no provision on the floor for the seat.  My understanding
> is that it
> bolts to the pedestal of the front passenger seat, but needs to have
> some provision made for bolting it to the floor also.  I don't
> want to
> buy the seat, and then learn that it is not possible or practical to
> install it so that it will be safe.
>
> In particular, if anyone reasonably near to me (I live in central
> Oklahoma) has such an installation, I'd like to see it and go from
> there, but any and all advice would be welcome as potentially helpful.
>
> Thanks, David McNeely
>