You still need the 8 of the silver double reinforcement brackets.
How did you refit these with the seat belt, do you have to remove the seat belt and thread it back though ?
Yes you do
Is this a fairly simple job ?
SorrY , very bad explanation
That is just the image I was looking for. I have the tripple bench seat and am soon to fit to the 2nd row of my T5. Question I have is when fitting the triple bench seat, there will only be 4 x seat mounts on the top side of the van floor. This would mean if the redundant hole on the long angle brackets are bolted, it would be just through the skin of the van floor, rather than through a long angle bracket and the floor skin. Is this what is done on the factory combees?
Also, are all the bolt holes locations created in the underside skin of the van floor? (So you can use as a template to drill through from underneath). Or do you need to mark out on the van floor from inside the van and drill down? Thanks
It's just a bare panel van, no seats or predrilled holes. Ah right, so each bracket has an unused hole then. Sorry - I will take a more detailed look back through the tread. I can see the drawing of the hole distance for each bracket. Did you just measure your seat base for the distance between the quick release mounts? ThanksI take it there aren't currently any seats in the rear of the van (it's just a bare panel van)? In which case, you only drill the holes you need for the 4 internal seat brackets (2 holes per seat bracket). There's no need to add extra bolts to populate all the holes in the underside reinforcing brackets.
No, you need to mark the floor on the inside of the van just as Elliot and myself have demonstrated further back in this thread.
So I am nearly done removing all the cowling from under the van. Even with exhaust middle 2 hanger bolts removed, there is not enough clearance to slide out the cowling that is over the exhaust middle section (inline with where the seat bolts fit). Do you think there is enough flex in the exhaust flexi joint for me to remove the exhaust back box hanger bolts and let the exhaust rest on the rear anti roll bar? I am hoping dropping the exhaust a couple of inches will give enough room to slide out that piece of cowling. (Also I am reluctant to try to split the exhaust because the joints are well rusted and will be a bit of a pig to split). Thanks
Yeah it’s enough to get the heat shield out of the way, no need to split the exhaust
So you think there is enough flex in the exhaust flexi joint at the engine end, not to damage anything with the exhaust left dropped sat on the rear anti roll bar?
I’m pretty adamant I didn’t split the exhaust. It was ~9 months ago now but I’m pretty certain I loosened it and rested the rear box on bricks, just enough to get the heat shield out.
Amazing. Will give that a go. Also, did you disconnect the fuel lines from the fuel tank when you dropped the fuel tank? Am thinking to try to only drop the tanks a couple of inches so hoping to not need to disconnect anything...
No didn’t disconnect the fuel line. Took the weight with a jack, undid the brackets holding it up. Lowered it a few inches to get the nut on.
