Troopy drivers seat..........

Thanks Rod,

Did think about others, but had been told the drivers seat from a Troopy would just bolt in.

Will do some more checking.

Rgds
Michael

Phil,

Was it too hard because you could not find a decent drivers seat or would it just not 'bolt in' as has been suggested?

We live 2 hours Nth of Adelaide and am unable to pop down that often.

Did look at aftermarket seats at the last 4x4 show in Adelaide, Recaros from memory were not very cheap but what put me off was the salesman. I asked about the need to have them checked/certified and was told "don't know, you'd have to find out when they are installed"

Did you have to get yours checked at Regency Park?

Thanks for the input,

Michael B (SA)

Michael,

I looked at fitting my drivers seat onto the passengers side, and the holes and offsets etc were different, so it is not a simple option.

New Recaros are very expensive - I think about $2k each. Second hand was a much cheaper option for me. I good friend did the same and bought a very tidy pair of Recaros for about $850 for his 79series.

The salesmen are always cagy about the legalities, and happily in SA, its all a bit vague. Don't quote me on the following, but I have been told that as long as you use the original seat anchor points, you are fine. But for me, to make it "legal" I went to Willshires and have a receipt from them, because I wanted the seat belt mounts relocated, and they were an authorised seat and seat belt fitter. So I gather if you get an authorised company to fit them, there is no requirement to have the vehicle inspected at Regency Park.

Next can of worms is the number of seats in the vehicle. So with Recaros, mine goes from a 3 seater to a 2 seater. No big deal in my book, but on occasions I'll put the original passengers seat back in the front so I can take 3 people in the vehicle. So to change the compliance would be useless for me.

You can also phone up Regency Park to get this info straight from the horses mouth.

Cheers
Phil

Phil,

There are captive nuts for the drivers seat on the passenger side. They are under the sheet metal floor.
To get to them remove the floor covering, place the drivers seat on the passenger side of the vehicle. Line the outer most bolt holes, the ones nearest the passenger door. Mark with a marker the other two bolt holes directly on the sheet metal floor. Remove the seat and where the marks, are just tap that area with the ball end of a ball pane hammer. A small depression will appear and the sheet metal should come away revealing a captive nut.

Looking under the vehicle will not help because there is a cross member the runs over the captive nuts.

Wayne

Hi Wayne,

Yeah, I know about the captive nuts on the 75series. But they aren't there on the 79series. I haven't had a look at the 78series, but know what you mean about the crossmember and the fuel tank underneath it. In my case, Willshires had to cut a hole and then slide a captive nut and retainer underneath, within that crossmember.

Also the seat belt bolt which normally takes the passengers side and centre seat belt bits is too far over to the passenger side when you fit a bucket seat. So I had that relocated to where it would normally be on the RV models.

Cheers
Phil

Phil,

You would think that there would be captive nuts in the floor for a bucket seat in the 78 and 79 series. The RV has bucket seat so they should have something easy to bolt them in.
BTW can you get the 78/79 series in petrol and if so what motor do they have 6cyl or V8?

Wayne

Hi Wayne,

Yeah, thats what I thought too. Mine's not an RV. The vinyl had the spots marked, but definitely nothing underneath when they fitted the nuts.

The 78/79 comes with the 4.5 litre 6 cyl petrol thats been in LandCruisers since 1993. Its the only model that still has this motor. They sell very few of them, but for a recreational vehicle they take some beating.

Toyota website has the details - I don't think anythngs changed on that model since 1999. Also they come with the stronger H150F gearbox.

Cheers
Phil

Tks Pterosaur,

I had asked the question on TroopyOz, but no replies and found the forum not very user friendly.

Will have another look.

Thanks again
Michael