91 Telstar/ Maz 626 seats into MV Brumby

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91 Telstar/ Maz 626 seats into MV Brumby

Post by steptoe » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:32 am

I can see a run on the wreckers for these seats

Mine came from a 91 Telstar TX5. First spotted them fitted to an EA82T equipped Brumby. Just bought a pair meself at a wrecker $100. They are grey velour fabric with grey plastic skirt trims just so-o-o suited to the Brumby grey. Observed in late 88 to late 91 Mazda 626 and Telstar TX5's.

They came with seat belt buckle attached to seat. I removed these and the inner side lower plastic skirt to clear Brumby console and floor.It appears that I have no need to even trim the RHS skirt of RHS seat coz it just fits in as if Fuji intended :)

The drivers seat has 3 position lumbar support and squeeze in side supports for your rib cage. And if I retain the hinging mechanism as I plan to, and the spring support end underneath I will also have height adjustment !!

Your initial thinking on comparison of Brumby seat to these, oh bugger they won't fit, but , well, maybe....

The driver seat underside is different to the passenger side. I am writing this halfway through fitting driver seat. I have removed the lower half of the sliders both sides. The outer slider needed to be surgically removed from the swinging hinges of the front and back of seat on drivers outer, by drilling out the solid steel rivets and angel grinder cutting wheel. To separate the top from bottom once cut from seat there is a pressing on the top of the topside in the middle that is there to stop the internal slider bearing/roller cages from going too far one way or the other. I drilled this indent out cleaned up the inside wound so the rollers could pass this stop when I hammered one slider through the other to seperate from each other. The inner side slider rail can be removed from seat with a few pin clips and a C clip removed, so not as severe as the angel grinding of the outer side. Then more rivets drilled out and the same indent removal and bashing to part the two halves.

I have simply used a M8 (12mm head) bolt about 15mm long and a washer sized about 50cent piece and a nut to bolt the original Brumby inner of RHS seat rail to the upper original 626 runner using rivet drilled out hole and washer inside top rail. I have fitted in the car bolted up to see that simply using 75mm flat bar welded to seat slider rail top to bridge the gap from Telstar seat width to Brumby width. Each rail is about 32mm wide so ech has a side just touching the other and 75mm flat 2.0mm thick will do the bridge nicely. Planning to bolt the Brumby rail to the flat bar so I can reuse Brumby rail and Brumby seat if ever need be

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Post by steptoe » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:29 pm

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if all comes good this'll be the phirst foto I have been able to get up in a post, or at least , a link...

bloody hell - it worked :) :)

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Post by steptoe » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:40 pm

the slider rail with fwd bwd adjuster, removed, the more surgically involved, chuck depicted remains in metal recycling bin

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Post by steptoe » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:07 pm

I have got the drivers seat in and completed. The raise mechanism does not have the room to work completely so next time would not bother with it. Being 6'2" I need a haircut to avoid touching the ceiling with me hair. Look good and next step will be to drop the height if it annoys me tooooo much.

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