25-01-2019, 10:37 AM
(05-01-2019, 12:39 PM)Parazine Wrote: Hello again!
I am now actually about to make up the "swing arm" as shown in your picture....however I cannot see where it hinges! There is a cable disappearing into the vertical of the prop shaft tunnel(?) and I imagined that there was a pivot in the horizontal (same face as the hole for the ring) about there,but I cannot see any sign of a pivot!
I imagine the swing arm has a "U" profile so it latches around the seat & seat base.
The other side with it's riveted slide top I do understand!
Advice please
David
The bit that is missing is this:
The seat "hooks" under the flange or slide on the prop shaft side. On the drivers side, the seat is retained by this pivoted arm. It is adjustable in that the ring can be pulled out, arm swung aside and seat slid to a new position. Arm is then swung in and the ring is placed through the appropriate hole
I have quite often seen the arm and ring in a box of £1 items at Autojumbles because people don't know what they are!
I assume that the seat mounting system broke on many cars and the seat was just bolted into position after a few years. It's unusual to find the system intact these days.
BTW, the passenger side was bolted using the aforementioned hinges. This seat "tipped" for access to the rear passenger compartment (obviously the drivers seat couldn't) and could be adjusted fore and aft, using spanners.