David, I do the 180 degree turnaround all the time on the passenger seat of my 85 Vanagon, with standard issue blue carpeting on the battery box.� No problems....takes about 45 seconds alltogther to slide out, turn, slide in.� I DO make it a practice to un-recline the seat back so it's sticking nearly straight up; it just BARELY clears the dash this way and engages the seat tracks just fine.

Rich
San Diego

--- On Wed, 7/21/10, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Swivel Seat install into a passenger Vanagon
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 3:46 PM

At 05:37 PM 7/21/2010 Wednesday, Fillmore West wrote:
>I've chose to just turn the reg seat around when necessary.
>I keep it in the reverse position

I tried that last weekend at West River, and I couldn't compress the
carpet enough to let the seat engage the tracks ('89 White
Star).� Does yours have carpeting on the battery box, and has this
been a problem?

Yours,
David