Sure isn't my experience.......
and I'm curious what is meant by 'hinge straps'.
All I see is pivot points, linkage bars, etc.  No hinges at all actually.
Just places things pivot on pins.

maybe we're talking about different things.
I just looked at my 85 Adventurewagon, where I took out a GL style 'plane
rear seat' ...........
and put in a Z bed from an 87 GL I believe.
Nothing is involved with the floor of the van that I can see. The seat
doesn't even touch the floor of the van.  I didn't drill anything either.
I have just that one not-perfect thing about where the top of the seat back
latches to 'posts' ....
I need to relocate those, where they are screwed into the side of the van,
but it's working fine without those anyway.
Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark drillock" <mdrillock@COX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Seat/Bed Swap

> If you won't drill holes it won't work. The 2 hinge straps need holes
> and there are I think at least 2 of the base holes than can be drilled
> and bolted through the floor.
>
> Mark
>
> Brendan Slevin wrote:
>> So I was trying to figure out if I can swap the Z-Bed from the 84
>> Wolfsburg
>> in to the 87 Syncro which only has the fold forward seat.  It looks like
>> the
>> syncro seat will bolt right into the 84, no problem.  But the Syncro
>> lacks
>> (I think) the threaded holes to bolt the seat bed to the floor of the van
>> and to the rear deck of the van.  Is it possible at all to fit the Z-bed
>> to
>> the syncro?  I don't want to do much in the way of drilling/fabricating.
>>
>> Brendan
>>