Syncro 7 Passenger Interior to Weekender

[Weezyissuperfast]

Yeah, I got my table and side panel installed:

The bend that I showed in my previous picture was sufficient. I am going with the Carat/Multivan layout (pop top addition to come this spring), which has a different bench system than the weekender bench with the plastic kick panel. My arrangement looks like this:

I need to finish the jump seat install next.

[SlalomVan]

Thanks to everyone who has posted photos and detailed information on making this transformation from 7-seater to a Weekender interior. Especially Greggearhead!

I am currently restoring/updating a 1989 Vanagon that has a very plain interior. Before I acquired it, was used for six years as a delivery van for local dry cleaner and then parked in a barn. Rumor has it (substantiated by some the records I received when I bought it) that it was originally intended to be used as a shop parts runner at Campbell Nelson VW north of Seattle before being sold to the owner of the dry cleaning business. It had the barest interior I have ever seen - gray tweed seats up front without armrests, rubber flooring up front, no tachometer, no headliner - basically a tin can. I am building out the interior and installing a Weekender bench seat that I have had in storage. Yes, it is about 4" narrower than the standard 7-passenger bench seat and I need these spacers.

[Weezyissuperfast]

So, there are a couple of issues w/ using a longer bolt through a bracket like that in this application. First issue is that those brackets are behind the plastic wall panels when you are installing the seat, so it would be near impossible to hold them in position while getting the seat lined up and the long bolt through. Second, if you tighten a bolt on an open square bracket like that it will just deform. You could use a solid block with a hole in it, but then you would still have the first problem.

Welding these brackets up is quite easy. If you cut the steel and get the hardware anyone w/ a welder should be able to weld them up for you. You could take them to a local mechanic and get them welded fairly cheaply.

You will also need to weld on the bracket spacers for the rear seat.

[dumptdeluxe]

[termuehlen]

The metal frame hinges measure about 64” apart on the passenger seat and about 60” on the carat interior seat.
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1988 Westfalia automatic Subaru OBD1
1986 syncro tintop wbx

[dumptdeluxe]

Good to know, thanks! So as long as I find 64" seat, no matter the year Vanagon, it should work with the securing pins?
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'65 Notch S
'85 Vanagon GL
'16 Tiguan TSi

[ALIKA T3]