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Still tired of the scraping and grinding. Did a little more today, should be ready to cut out the bad section tomorrow. Then will need to clean up and repair the lip on the bulkhead where the bed floor is supported before thinking about welding in the new panel.
Spent a bit of time on the Mk3 seat conversion this afternoon. Got the passenger seat pan done. Will do the same on the driver's seat soon, then reassemble them all. (Need to leave the completed side apart so I can use it as a guide.)
Converting Mk3 seats for a Mk1 has 2 parts. One is that you need to narrow the rear slider track by about 2⅛" (to 18⅞"). The excess all needs to come off the outboard side. The other thing that's needed is to reverse the side that the slider release operates on. On standard seats it's pretty simple (minor fabrication) to do that by swapping the release levers on the 2 seats. That's what was done to the Passat seats my truck came with.
But on my new seats, the driver's side is height adjustable, which makes it far more difficult to do the lever swap. So I'm going to swap the front mounts on the floor from side to side instead. Should be fairly simple to cut them off and weld them back on the other side, since I'm going to be welding new pans in anyway.
Spent a bit of time on the Mk3 seat conversion this afternoon. Got the passenger seat pan done. Will do the same on the driver's seat soon, then reassemble them all. (Need to leave the completed side apart so I can use it as a guide.)
Converting Mk3 seats for a Mk1 has 2 parts. One is that you need to narrow the rear slider track by about 2⅛" (to 18⅞"). The excess all needs to come off the outboard side. The other thing that's needed is to reverse the side that the slider release operates on. On standard seats it's pretty simple (minor fabrication) to do that by swapping the release levers on the 2 seats. That's what was done to the Passat seats my truck came with.
But on my new seats, the driver's side is height adjustable, which makes it far more difficult to do the lever swap. So I'm going to swap the front mounts on the floor from side to side instead. Should be fairly simple to cut them off and weld them back on the other side, since I'm going to be welding new pans in anyway.