Fitting dormatic seats

[forrest]

Hi All,

I now have a seat set and cooker unit 🙂

However as I will be fitting them to a previously unconverted LR there are some things I am missing/need info on.

The rear seats bolt straight on to the aluminium, is there any extra strengthing fitted to a original dormobile or would big washers do the trick?

I am missing the brackets which are bolted to the seat boxes for the front seats(where they hinge I think), does anybody have a spare set of brackets that I could buy or borrow to make pattern parts? (or even a diagram with measurments) Or will it be easy enough to home fabricate something out of angle iron for example?

Any ideas most welcome,

My landrover is a real bitsa camper, she started life as a Carawagon (without the pop up roof) and has little interior fittings left, and is now fitted with a ‘park ranger’ roof, and soon to be dormobile seats and cooker unit

Underneath its quite an original 6 pot though

[Jabbawocky]

Hi Forrest

Re Rear Seats. Mine were bolted in with washers.

Re: Front seats. The best bet is to take some pictures of the undersides of the seats and post them here. i will have a look at what you have and then tell you what you need to make. Most of the bits are flat bar and angle iron..

The other option is to come up and have a look at Barney.

Cheers Mick

[forrest]

Hi Mick

Cheers for the reply, I may well take you up on the offer to come and have a look. Having looked at the series 2 club forum the only bits I dont think I can make are the drivers seat rails (see the wanted request 🙂 )

Do they need to slide forward and back for the dormatic bit to work, or could I effectively fix them into place in a compromise postion?

Must measure that kitchen unit for you as well…

[Jabbawocky]

Hi Forrest

Do they need to slide forward and back for the Dormatic bit to work

No. You could fix them, but in Barney you need them to move to turn the gas on and off. You can buy runners from Classic car parts suppliers such as Holdens.

http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproduct.asp?sg=2&pgCode=045&sgName=Hardware&pgName=Seats+%26+Seat+Belts&agCode=1160&agName=Seat+Fittings&pCode=091.590

If you do decide to fit them, without the runners, the seat will be too low. You will need to lift it. I can give the the measurement, if you need it?

If you do decide to come up sometime, let me know, so I can be in.

Cheers Mick

[forrest]

Update after a flurry of activity 🙂

The rear seats are now fitted, and the drivers seat I have fitted the runners off the seats which I removed. Everything seems to line up ish, I think the drivers seat needs lifting by about an inch.

I plan on making Dormoble esk fittings to go underneath so I can get at the seat box/remove the seat.

Havent looked at the passengers seat yet as that is all uphostled and I dont want to mess it up, but I dont think it will be a problem,

The missus has set a easter deadline for camping……

Photos to follow,

[CarlK]

There is a vertical stiffener in the rear tub behind each middle door which Dormobile trimmed straight up and down. The stiffener goes between the body side and the top of the wheelbox. Dormobile put a white trim panel over this. I haven’t tried my rear seats in a tub that wasn’t cut, but I recon the cut was required for clearance and/or to prevent rolling over into it when sleeping. There’s also a big rubber buffer on top of each wheelbox, forward of the cabinetry, for the rear seat backs to rest on.

Carl

[jkhackney]

The seats work fine with this aluminum web standard and uncut, but the trim panel won’t fit. I also found that fitting a retractable seatbelt reel was easier if this web was cut as Martin Walter did it.
-Jeremy

[forrest]

Thanks all for the replies,

Work has ground to a halt at the moment, while we decorate my daughters bedroom 😥

I have worked out all the bracketry I need, but dimensions for the long angle section which screws to the seat box on which the passengers seat pivots would be appreciated,

many thanks

Forrest

[AlexB]

Forrest, I posted pics of this on the 2 forum, in your wanted thread.
IF you point out which bit and dimension, I will measure and let you know
Alex

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