Oh What A Feeling!

Completed the Toyota seat swap today. (Thanks to our friend Brian for donating the seats to the cause and to Al for a double checking the safety of my installation plan.) It took an unbelievably long time to fabricate the adaptor rails for the drivers side. Measure four times and drill once. Of course, when drilling through thick steel, you get to drill every hole five or six times as you step up to the final size. The rails are attached from underneath the seat box so you must lift the camper body and tilt the cab forward to access the nuts. The passenger side, completed on Saturday, was much quicker because that seat just mounted on a hinged steel plate. (The hinge allows the seat to tip forward so you can access the oil fill hatch.) 

The “new” seats are a vast improvement over the broken down, “overstuffed” seats that were previously installed. These seats are firm enough to offer some back support and are slightly bolstered. The seats can be slid fore and aft and the seat back angle can be adjusted. The Toyota seats are also a tad lower so we can now touch the floor with our feet and have some room to spare over our heads.

My back will definitely benefit from the effort it put into the installation.

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I’m really falling behind in the photo department. Maybe we’ll start snapping photos of all this stuff once we hit the road!