Ok guys to the rear seat rebuild. I've got the seat stripped with all the rest of the vinyl on the interior and shipped it out to copycat. I'm going to get the stuff to re-build the rear seat frame tomorrow.
My plans are to use 3/4 marine plywood for the back of the seat and 1/2 or 5/8's for the rest, drilling and screwing the edges as well as gluing. I'm also going to use interior L brackets around the edge of the frame. So this should all be fine.
I'll be using the original cushions since they were in surprisingly good shape wrapped up nicely in plastic. I am going to add additional cushion to just a few spots.
Questions are -- how much of this thing should I seal, and what should I use, I was going to originally use resin, but that seems like overkill, thoughts? Should I stick to that plan, or is there somethings else? Paints? Wood sealers? etc.
Odds are I won't have this thing another 20 years, but I don't want to do it 1/2 a$$ either.
The seat was so rotted I actually had to go back and make cardboard templates on the edges to get the angle between the seat back an the floor right. I've got enough measurements to do it right now. I thought I may save some weight here by using 1/2 on a lot of the seat, but judging by how much the seat actually weighed, looks like I'll be adding weight, it was so rotted it was unbelievable, the fact that I could even sit on it was amazing...
I'm also going to move the batteries from the middle to the port side under the seat, because it ALWAYS seems we need more weight there (especially when I'm alone, maybe a diet too
) and I don't yet have tabs. Then I will have a much larger area under the seat to actually use for storage too, instead of two really small areas.
If you think I've missed something chime in, nows the time.
My plans are to use 3/4 marine plywood for the back of the seat and 1/2 or 5/8's for the rest, drilling and screwing the edges as well as gluing. I'm also going to use interior L brackets around the edge of the frame. So this should all be fine.
I'll be using the original cushions since they were in surprisingly good shape wrapped up nicely in plastic. I am going to add additional cushion to just a few spots.
Questions are -- how much of this thing should I seal, and what should I use, I was going to originally use resin, but that seems like overkill, thoughts? Should I stick to that plan, or is there somethings else? Paints? Wood sealers? etc.
Odds are I won't have this thing another 20 years, but I don't want to do it 1/2 a$$ either.
The seat was so rotted I actually had to go back and make cardboard templates on the edges to get the angle between the seat back an the floor right. I've got enough measurements to do it right now. I thought I may save some weight here by using 1/2 on a lot of the seat, but judging by how much the seat actually weighed, looks like I'll be adding weight, it was so rotted it was unbelievable, the fact that I could even sit on it was amazing...
I'm also going to move the batteries from the middle to the port side under the seat, because it ALWAYS seems we need more weight there (especially when I'm alone, maybe a diet too
) and I don't yet have tabs. Then I will have a much larger area under the seat to actually use for storage too, instead of two really small areas.If you think I've missed something chime in, nows the time.
