Rear seat springs

happy days

happy days

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Both rear seats when you sit in them seem to go very low at the base of the spine, you can feel the gap between the seat and the back, can the springs be strengthened ? is their an easier option ? anyone else had this problem and cured it. cheers Mick
 
At risk of teaching grandma again....

Are you sure you have the seats fully pushed back? You need to give them a really good shove, and then the front edge of the seat drops into the seat well behind the large crossmember.

Chris
 
^^^^ Took me ages to work that out, but it's so obvious now as there is not gap at the bottom of the seat where it means the tunnel!

My old sandalwood seats were very like this too. I thought about stuffing some rolled up orthopaedic foam inside each of the springs to act as a second absorber. It might also add comfort, but the new buckskin seats I fitted don't have much wear and the springs are much better so I've not bothered.... yet!

Michael
 
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Not much pressure applied here,
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Their is the gap, (no its not my weight causing it)
 
Take a pic of the front of the seat swab Mick, where it sits on the cross member at the front.

Richard
 
Hi Mick.
Are the seat backs fully located over the tabs on the rear shelf?
So they sit further down in the seat well?
It cant hurt to turn the base squabs upside down and pull the main thick metal bits out a bit,maybe they have had one to many fat B#$**#" sat on them in the past during pub crawls! :LOL:
 
Well they are a tight fit with the seatbelt being their, but the screws securing the seatback all lined up. Will check that tomorrow though Mr P.
 
I still don't think the cushions are sitting far enough back. When you look across the front edge of the seats, the two seats and the centre bolster should exactly line up. The picture you have above shows the seats sitting forward of the bolster. That isn't right. Time to apply much more force - it ususally needs a good thump - to push them back and down.

Chris
 
Chris I did notice they were set forward of the centre rest, but they were pushed to get the front to drop. Anyone have a measurement from front of the seat to the crossmember front. Maybe I will need a spacer to push the seat further back.
 
happy days said:
but they were pushed to get the front to drop.
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Then in that case they are fitted how they should be. (It does look to be correct as far as that goes, even in your pics, because there isn't a gap between the bottom of the front of the seat and the crossmember.)
 
Following on from what Chris said above, when putting the base back I reach down into the gap at the back with my fingertips and lift the rear of the base up whilst giving the front of the base a firm push.
 
You can boost the seat springs by getting some firm seat foam from your local market or upholsterer.

I got a sheet about an inch thick and cut it into strips and then slotted each strip between the springs, I put about three strips deep in four rows - it did make the seat more comfortable to sit on.
 
Mrs happy days suggested that John K. I told her "that won't work" :oops:
Did you put the strips from side to side or back to front
 
Removed the seats , pulled back the carpet and where the frame of the seats butt against the metal crossmember there were small indents in the crossmember where the seat frame was resting. So I shaped some ply and put that along the crossmember to push the seats further back. Problem solved and the seats are now just about level with the centre bolster as Chris suggested. Only thing the seats really took some pushing to get them in. Will see how this temp solution holds and maybe it will be permanent.
 
Mick, I'm glad you sorted it now, you did have be intreeged enough for me to look at my rear seats and noticed that mine were fully inline with the centre section unlike yours in your pic... See pics below

So I then pressed down to see how far it sank

As you can see a small gap appears, hopefully your ply wedge has fixed it :D
 

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My seats now look similar to yours Guy, just hope they stay that way. By the way do you use photo bucket for your pics ?
 
Hi Mick,
when I use my phone which is about 80% of the time I crop the pics before uploading and if I use the lap top or pc I have a programme to resize them but find my phone a lot easyer and quicker for uploading pics :D
 
Mine are a very tight fit,and I have to use a small block of wood and hammer to get them in.
I expect a previous owner made that indent to make it easier to fit them.
Your block of wood solution reminds me of my mums morris 1000,she had to have a block under the drivers seats feet to lift it up so she could see over the steering wheel and drive it!! :LOL:
Many a short person used wood wedges back then!
 
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