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Hi,
Were any RHD Multivans ever made ? I'd like to put a multivan rear seat in my van but I'm not sure how I'd get around the interior card for the fold out table. It's not really going to work with the sliding door on the
other side. I'm guessing I don't need any cards to actually fit the seats though(type with pins).
What parts will need to be modded apart from the panels? Do they have the sliding door covers? They would be a bit of a nightmare.
Do you know anyone who's done one?
Bought a jump seat off a guy in NorthWest London who had done it, forget his name, maybe some of the London lot may know him? Very smart red RHD multi-van?
I 'think' he'd used two interiors & cut & plastic welded them back together with acetone. Very neat job.
How about putting a LHD sliding door in? There's an idea.
I thought about the LHD but it's a bit of a job i thought .
I shall post a link to this thread in the general section and see if anyone knows the chap you mentioned.
You will need to be able to cut and weld the long plastic panel that has the fold away table in it. You might need a second long panel to do this job properly. Interiors are available on ebay so it can be done.
The sliding door cover is standard and not special to a Multivan
BJ,
I have fitted a full set of multivan seats into my RHD van but have not used any of the plastic side panels.
The front seats just slide onto the normal runners as you would expect. The jump seat has a mounting frame which bolts to the back of the seat box. This frame also carries the reel for the lap belt. The belt buckle shares the mounting bolt with the cab seat (in the walkthrough). The legs of the seat have short pins extending downwards for which I have drilled close fitting holes in the ply floor covering. These prevent the seat from tipping forwards or backwards.
The rear three seat bench has six mounting points. There are the two pins you mention at either end of the backrest and two either end of the 'R&R' mechanism. These latter ones have spacers which (presumably) normally fit behind the plastic panel. They are a 50mm length of 50mm square box section steel with a bolt welded sticking out of one face and a nut welded on the inside of a hole on the opposite face. I assume that the normal procedure is to screw the adaptor/spacers into the body mounts, fit the plastic panels over them, then bolt the seat frame, through the plastic and into the spacer. I hope that makes sense!
Since I only got two spacers with my seat I ended up making my own spacers but, to avoid the welding (not my forte) I just put a loose bolt through one side into the mounting and a nut and bolt to fix the seat. (No plastic panel means that you have access to the nut). I also offset the holes either side of the spacer blocks by an inch to allow for some adjustment of position.
Without the plastic I had to make a judgement about the location of the seat and centres for the mountings. For the lower ones I used the same process as I did for the seat belt mountings. Threaded plates about 6mm thick were placed behind holes in the inner frame of the bodywork and pop rivetted in place to act as captive nuts for the spacers bolts.
I have just been refitting mine and am in the process of a couple of refinements. I hadn't originally made a trim panel for the side of the van at the ends of the seat (below the engine deck level). With these now in place I have had to made slimmer spacers. These are now 40mm thick at the 'hip' mountings and 45mm thick (one 50 & one 40 actually!) at the front mountings. The main side panel has a 25mm square hole to allow the pin spacers to come flush with the surface of the panel.
For the upper mounts a piece of 3mm plate was welded to the correct location on the side panel, then a 25mm square tube spacer welded to the plate. A nut was welded inside the tube to receive the backrest pin.
I am about to make a longer heel board for the seat to reach right out to the van sides. In this I will include a finger slot close to the sliding door end to allow me to lift the seat front from outside the vehicle. (The standard heel board has such a slot over towards the other side.)
