Mike,

You are almost there. The lazy Susan thingy is asymmetrical. To gain
access the two inner screws, you have to slide the passenger seat all
the way back, then rotate the seat 180 degrees around. Once the cover is
off, the battery will just bare have enough room to be lifted out of the
opening.

If you don't have a battery carrying strap, you can use a pair of vice
grips one at each terminal. Be very carefully that you don't accidently
short the vice grip on the positive side to any metal or else you have a
arc welder.

- Vince

http://gipsyflies.home.comcast.net
1989 Vanagon GL Camper
1996 Land Rover Discovery
2005 Mini Cooper S

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Accessing battery -- am I too simple?

I went to access the main battery under the passenger seat on my 84
Westy today. The Owner's Manual tells me to slide the seat forward all
the way. When I do so, I find I can remove the bit of carpet that is
folded over the rear portion of the seat pedestal. I find a black metal
cover plate with four Philips screws. The two rearmost screws are easily
removed. However, the foremost two are well-covered by the lower portion
of the  seat's "lazy susan" thingy.  There's no way to access the screw
heads.

So I'm sitting here, looking at this and wondering if I am too simple to
be allowed to drive or something?

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 VW Type 2 / 84 Westy: A poor but proud race.
KG6RCR