splitthis wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:33 am
shit tonne of progress mate, keep the updates coming.
Just so you know, your bus wouldn’t have had seat clamps on the two inner legs of the middle seat. It should however have plates welded to the floor where the legs sit. I think there’s a couple of pics on my looooong slow build.
Yeah I know I've done more than standard but I wanted to reinforce the middle seat as much as possible - the seatbelt mounts are welded in to the seat frame itself so there's a 5mm plate welded the full length underneath and every single clamp is actually going to be bolted right through into a captive nut welded on from underneath.
I obviously won't have the seatbelts in for rego and the seat covers will actually completely cover the plates, etc so I can just 'feel' for the holes and then make small holes to feed the bolts through later.
Have also removed the standard bay middle seat fold down handle and will just have a very small little latch at the bottom of the back rest with a wiper switch knob screwed on to it.
splitthis wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:53 am
Clever way to avoid having seatbelts hang down under the middle seat. Definitely need the extra hood with the belts mounted like that, nice work.
