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Hi Marcus,Quote:
Originally Posted by Chops
Yes, for the fairlead roller, the brackets on mine are broken. If I can find someone who can alloy weld mine could be repaired.
Read that you moved earlier in the week, you should have shouted and I'd have given a hand. I'm off till the 14th (but Tracy has a few jobs for me to do) so if you need help when you're back let me know.
Colin
I had a fellow forum member round on Saturday looking at seatbelt mounts etc.
We looked at the Dormobile and the brackets I'd acquired, compared it to the Defender and worked out how to install the mounts.
Today I had an hour or so spare so I removed some of the bracketry a previous owner had installed and started looking at seat removal (to fit new covers). I was disappointed to find that a latch mechanism on one of the rear seats had been cut off and it's mating part unbolted & removed !
There are two single seats in the second row of a Dormobile and they can be moved together and laid down (to form the main bed). The latch stops the seat folding accidentally so I need to pull out the seat that's complete and copy the mechanism.
Re-covering will be fun as it's an inner sprung seat not the usual block of foam covered with vinyl.
One of the grab rails on the back of a front seat is also missing so I need to get some pipe bent with quite a tight radius to make a replacement.
It looks like installing the seatbelt brackets will mean taking the hardboard headlining out and removing timber battens that are used to mount the headlining and curtain rails.
I also need to lift the roof to get the rear sidepanals out to replace the seals top & bottom.
There's a lot of work to restoring a LWB Station Wagon and even more with a Dormobile !
Colin
Hi Colin, I might have a single seat grab bar in the shed on my spare seat, will have to check.
It took me nearly 2 months to restore my seats but well worth the effort. I'm not staying original on the dormobile as I want it to be user friendly [bighmmm] so I've gone on a ''Out Of Africa'' theme for my seats and curtains.
The trimmer did a great job but costs went way over his quote, I ended up making new seat back panels, new foam, repairs and replacement springs etc. I stripped all the frames and re painted them.
I have some oddments of elephant hide material tucked away also, might be useful to someone.
Jerry,Quote:
Originally Posted by jerryd
If you have a spare grab rail it would be very helpful. I actually need the passenger (longer) bar but I could lengthen it easily and at least the bend radius matches the other one.
I like your seatcovers but I'm using Elephant hide........
I've started to add the rear seatbelts.
SWB hardtop brackets required holes drilling. Because of the timber for the headlining & curtain rail to attach to you have to remove the timber strip & cut out sections to clear the bolts. I'll paint the brackets green when the roof is removed somewhere down the track....
Mounting the inertia reel was straightforward. Pulled out the captive nut strip where the sidepanel is held to an angle bracket and managed to drill & tap one the the nuts to 7/16" UNF. Drill a clearance hole in the sidepanel and bolt up the inertia reel.
The lower mount should be easy, just need to weld a 7/16" UNF nut to strip of steel.
The inner one's behind the seat will be a bit harder, I'll have to plate either side of the floor. Then I need to get onto the seatbelt supplier in the UK because the inertia reels come with stalks and I want webbing for the inner mounts because the seats have to fold down.
I may get a chance to remove the rear seats today and start copying the latch that's missing on one of them !
Colin
Colin , I have a friend who can get almost any seatbelt combo you want. Inertia reel with stalks or even webbed buckles. Just need to know what exactly ur looking for and I can tell u if it's available, and a price including postage to you through his business. I've just recently fitted new seat belts to my bushpig perentie with longer stalks so the belts fit around my guts better ..lol. I fitted the belts I removed to the piglet stage 1. Let me know if u need me to check them out for you. Cheers mate. Rod.
PM sentQuote:
Originally Posted by 67hardtop
That's cheap. The belts are about $130.Dunno what's happening there? The belts are about $130 each for inertia type. Not sure on lap belt type. My mate, I've just found out, is away for a couple weeks. Few marital probs. The belts that he gets mostly fit Aussie cars, just thought u might be able to get something that fits. If the belts u need are fairly specific then he may Not be able to help. Plus he's the sort of bloke that won't contact you. He deals mostly through his eBay store, Holdspares* with the asterisk. Just thinking he's prob not the sorta fella that would go out of his way these days. Hmmm. Cheers Colin.Quote:
Originally Posted by gromit
Rod,
I'll get lap belts from Paddocks ($25 each) which will give me the end I need instead of the wire stalks.
Colin
Sounds like a much better idea I think Colin. CheersQuote:
Originally Posted by gromit
Every time I work on the Dormobile I find something missing or broken !
Previous owners have added & removed bits & pieces so there are plenty of extra holes. Today I found screws missing from one of the rear seats and some 2BA pan head screws from the rear sidepanel that have gone walkabout ! Also found some rust in the bottom of the passenger side B pillar. At some point in the future I'll have to remove the side of the Dormy (A pillar, B pillar & 1/2 C pillar) to fix the rust. I do have a spare pair of panels that are reasonably rust free but it's not a job I'm looking forward to.
Anyway, managed to get another couple of seatbelt mounts in place. Had to remove the headlining panel which needs to be replaced and, just like in a caravan found the sharp end self tapping screws poking through the roof and all sorts of work that was done to fit the opening roof section.
The front section of the roof has some brackets bolted on where a roofrack must have been fitted in the past. Inside there was a curved steel brace to take the weight to the gutters.
The 'headlining' is hardboard (Masonite) with a vinyl covering. I've found a few potential suppliers but I'm guessing it might be something used in the caravan industry. My only concern is that it's curved at the edges. I wonder if it's just forced into shape or whether you have to damp it down and clamp it in a former ??
Colin