1995 HZJ75 Troop Carrier Seat Adapter... (1 Viewer)

[GoofTroop]

I'm attempting to fit some Recaro seats into my Troopy. I ordered some adapters from Planted, and some universal recaro rails.

The rails bolt to the seat, the rails also interface with the Planted seat adapter. However, the seat adapter does not match my bolt pattern on the vehicle.

I have this sort of strange, non-square bolt patter on the LHS of the vehicle (RHD vehicle). The front two bolts are on about a 60 degree angle plane from horizontal. The rear bolts are on the horizontal plane (although one is sitting on a ridge one isn't). The biggest issue is that the rear, inboard bolt is off in no mans land (see picture).

I ordered the Planted brackets for the 70 series troop carrier and they appear to be in a square pattern.

Does anyone know how to search for this type of adapter?

 

[coldtaco]

You have to find the hidden captive nut on the floor. Mount everything up and mark the spot with the missing bolt hole then remove everything and carefully drill/grind the surface skin. If you did it right there should be a captive nut there

 

[Honger]

Troopy seating is a weird thing... there are captured nuts under the floor for a variety of seats. I converted from a LHD 60/40 bench to two buckets with my own home-brew brackets. I found the captive nut on the passenger side (right for me) that allowed me to re-arrange accordingly.

I'm assuming you had front 60/40 bench up there originally, correct?
And you're a RHD, not LHD.

There is almost certainly a captive nut somewhere in the red circled area...

 

[coldtaco]

Here’s a couple poor pictures

 

[TreadingLight]

I am really glad to see this thread since I really want to replace the 60/40 bench in my rhd '90 Troopy with some kind of buckets.

I had no idea there were captive nuts in there.

For your brackets, I take it you got a left-side and a right-side bracket? Any other adapters or hardware needed? I haven't chosen seats yet so I know I'll need to do that before ordering parts.

 

[Honger]

You can see some of the measuring/layout I did to find a captured nut for my passenger side (again, I'm LHD) in my thread here.

 

[GoofTroop]

oh nice! That's crazy you guys were able to find that. I guess it makes sense to manufacture the body with all of the different seat configurations as an option and just pop out the one you need.

When I imported my Troopy it came what I'll call a "custom" set of seats. They were installed on two pieces of angle iron. Now that you mention the 60/40 bench seat set up I'm sure that's what was originally installed. That explains the single bolt closer to vehicle centerline.

Even with the potential hole under the floor the Planted brackets still don't fit exactly. They offered to create one for my vehicle but I don't have a way to get up there without a seat lol.

I'm in the process of designing a custom seat adapter. It'll be simple, I'll share once I have it all complete and the seats are bolted in. Finding the correct seat belt buckle will be the next task.

 

[TreadingLight]

What is the issue with your brackets? Wondering if I may run into similar issues.

 

[GoofTroop]

Check out the attached powerpoint for the list of issues I have currently.

 

[GoofTroop]

To clarify these brackets have worked for other troop carriers, just not mine.

 

[TreadingLight]

Do you think it is a RHD vs LHD issue?

 

[GoofTroop]

I think it's more of a bench seat issue if i had to guess... Just a guess tho. The guys at Planted can probably help you out tho

 

[TreadingLight]

I haven't started working on seats yet but it sounds like we may be in the same boat re: floors. I have a rhd 60/40 split bench.

Have you had any luck with planted? I may want to follow your path if you make it work.

 

[GoofTroop]

I decided to go my own way on designing seat adapters. I took measurements / created CAD file/ Contracted a shop to manufacture.

The manufacturing is complete, they shipped last Friday. I should have them by the end of next week. I'll let you know how the fit-up goes.

 

[TreadingLight]

Cool deal. That looks sharp.

Did you find and expose the hidden captured nut described earlier in the thread?

 

[coldtaco]

Looks like a planted seat bracket, or at least done in the same style

 

[GoofTroop]

yeah very similar.

I never looked for the hidden nut. Just going with the original attachment locations. Seat belts will be the next saga.

 

[GoofTroop]

Success.

 

[TreadingLight]

Wow. Nicely done. I think I am almost done with my mechanical projects and hope to do something similar soon.