sako243
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@Cobbler here's a sort of half decent photo of the seats installed - you've got no hope of fitting them if you have a bulkhead. I suspect even certain bulkhead removal bars might be difficult. Mine's a factory 300Tdi county station wagon so there's absolutely no bulkhead behind the seats and you've got a nice 90° corner which is needed for clearing the seat squabs.
They are mounted slightly in-board by half an inch or so which the only side-effect is that the accelerator pedal is slightly further off to the right but everyone gets used to it pretty quickly (well the few that have driven it). When I was fitting the hydraulic PTO up I noticed that the seat box rivets had disintegrated (probably due to the extra weight of the seats) and decided to bite the bullet and finally get around to fabricating a new seat base. The L322 seats, like many, are designed to go on a flat floor at "floor" level not on a box like the Defenders have. When I had the original seat box I removed the front motor bracket that tilts the front of the seat so that the squab would collapse down further. Even then you needed to be of a particular build (i.e. a don't have short legs) in order to reach the pedals. I could just about place my feet flat on the floor but my father who's only an inch shorter couldn't.
Given I was the only one who ever really drove it I left it like that for about 4 years because it worked but you lose easy access under the seats (I could still get my arm under there with the seats raised all the way up).
The new seatbox layout is much better comfort wise - with the L322 seats on the electric motors you can lift the seat 6" roughly from its lowest setting so got plenty of scope to return to the previous level if I wanted.
But it really was a lashed together affair that took 3 days including swapping a gearbox on my own. The battery compartment has access front and to the side, the drivers storage has access from the side. I ran out of time to make hatches for them and paint them before having to head to Scotland.
Literally slapped some paint inside some bits on the inside (but not underneath because it was already wet) from having to still use the vehicle while building it. Botled the seats down, loaded up the car and then drove to my parents, picked up my Dad and drove to Scotland the following morning.
You might be able to see that the new box is horizontal from the rear rather than rising and that makes all the difference for the L322 seats.
They are mounted slightly in-board by half an inch or so which the only side-effect is that the accelerator pedal is slightly further off to the right but everyone gets used to it pretty quickly (well the few that have driven it). When I was fitting the hydraulic PTO up I noticed that the seat box rivets had disintegrated (probably due to the extra weight of the seats) and decided to bite the bullet and finally get around to fabricating a new seat base. The L322 seats, like many, are designed to go on a flat floor at "floor" level not on a box like the Defenders have. When I had the original seat box I removed the front motor bracket that tilts the front of the seat so that the squab would collapse down further. Even then you needed to be of a particular build (i.e. a don't have short legs) in order to reach the pedals. I could just about place my feet flat on the floor but my father who's only an inch shorter couldn't.
Given I was the only one who ever really drove it I left it like that for about 4 years because it worked but you lose easy access under the seats (I could still get my arm under there with the seats raised all the way up).
The new seatbox layout is much better comfort wise - with the L322 seats on the electric motors you can lift the seat 6" roughly from its lowest setting so got plenty of scope to return to the previous level if I wanted.
But it really was a lashed together affair that took 3 days including swapping a gearbox on my own. The battery compartment has access front and to the side, the drivers storage has access from the side. I ran out of time to make hatches for them and paint them before having to head to Scotland.
Literally slapped some paint inside some bits on the inside (but not underneath because it was already wet) from having to still use the vehicle while building it. Botled the seats down, loaded up the car and then drove to my parents, picked up my Dad and drove to Scotland the following morning.
You might be able to see that the new box is horizontal from the rear rather than rising and that makes all the difference for the L322 seats.
) in the most sensible order.
Baltic here today yet the sunshine's glorious.
to be fair I have used the corner of it for a work bench briefly before I cluttered it up with more stuff.
£100 for all 5?
