Firm up and raise!
Firm up and raise!
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CHIMV8 500

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2,780 posts

243 months

Sunday 4th February 2018
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Well,after numerous comments from her in doors,that the view of the windscreen wipers, is not acceptable from the passenger seat.

Removed the seats


As expected the old thin wires were the current backside support


Removed the leather securing clips at the rear of the seat


Popular PH'S method to support sponge,2 layers of old carpet off cuts


I then opted for further support with layer of vinyl tile strips


Installed cable ties to strengthen the thin wires issue,and recliped the leather back at the rear with thin cable ties


To help raise the seat, i changed the seat holding down bolts with longer ones,you will need to push the runners as far as they will go to the front of the seat,so you can push the longer bolt through the locating hole on the angle,otherwise you will have to take the runner itself off the seat.
Introduced a 25x25mm steel section to help raise the seat height(the tape is for holding the box section in place when lowering the seat back in place before you ask)



Seat refixed in position with extra supports and raised,i further supported the sponge on the drivers sideat the same time


Edited by CHIMV8 500 on Sunday 4th February 13:30

Engineer1949

1,423 posts

166 months

Sunday 4th February 2018
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great job nice complementry pics.


john

CHIMV8 500

Original Poster:

2,780 posts

243 months

Sunday 4th February 2018
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Engineer1949 said:
great job nice complementry pics.


john
Cheers John,the transformation with the seat, is well worth the effort for very little expense

phillpot

17,442 posts

205 months

Sunday 4th February 2018
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Did something similar on one of mine, but no tape required, larger hole drilled in bottom of box section so nuts are inside holding bolts and box section in place wink


ianwayne

7,716 posts

290 months

Sunday 4th February 2018
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Good work on giving the passenger a higher seat!

I, too have strengthened my seat base while they were out. I notice that you haven't put small holes in the piece of carpet you've used to reclip the 3 horizontal ones. Since you have used tie wraps to put more tension they are probably redundant, but it means the seat base is not secured near the front. Here is one of mine:



There were several threads on it I'd seen myself but the photos were from links to photobucket and not uploaded from user' own computers so many of them can't be seen.


Edited by ianwayne on Sunday 4th February 21:23