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Subject:Re: Westy Interior Swap- Rear Seat bolts without welding?
From:craig cowan
Date:Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:51:35 -0400

Alistar I see you put the interior in without putting down the wooden floor
piece? Does everythign still line up properly? Did you leave the GL foam
bits in place? (Unclear from your photos).

-Craig

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I did it on my '86 syncro tin top, wade through my blog to see the pics.
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/
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> alistair
>
>
>
> On 2011-09-25, at 1:37 PM, craig cowan wrote:
>
> > Hello gang!
> > I have a 1980 westfalia interior in my 1985 sunroof bus that I am
> planning
> > to soon move to my 1987 sunroof syncro. In the sunroof bus, I had all the
> > little riser nuts meticulously cut out and welded into the floor. I hope
> to
> > not do that on the syncro though (I don't really want to weld on this
> > bus....).
> > What's the trick? I remember hearing of someone using long bolts with a
> nut
> > on the other side. What about for the rear of the rear seat? These bolts
> are
> > precariously positioned for installation in a syncro. One bolt comes out
> in
> > the wheel well, but the other would be inaccessibly over the gas tank.
> >
> > I'm just trying to plan ahead and  think this out to make everything go
> > simply. What have people done?
> >
> > -Craig
> > '85 GL turned Westy
> > Bostig in Back
> > '87 SUNROOF Syncro
> > '90 Carat (still in someone elses driveway)
>
>