Actually, you don't even need to remove the door panel. Remove the phillips head screws that hold the armrests to the door and then replace the screws using plastic screw caps with the little hinged cover that snaps in place (available in the hardware section at Lowes) covering the screw head-gives a nice finished look.

Jeff Stewart

----- Original Message -----

Why not remove the arm rests from the door panel?
Remove door panel, remove two screws (or three), replace door panel.

Works for me.

Jim

On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Bret Berger wrote:

> Alan,
>
> I can speak to the issues of the newer seats in an 82 Westy. I put
> them
> in a few years ago.
>
> The doors will not close (properly) if the arm rests on the outside of
> each seat are in the down position. They will also not close if the
> seats are moved far forward (even with the seat arm rests up). The
> arm
> rest on the door interferes with the arm rests on the seats.
>
> When my vertically challenged 16 year old daughter started driving the
> van I was forced to remove the outside driver's side arm rest because
> the door would not close when she moved the seat full forward.