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    Thumbs up Deuce passenger seat installed

    Since the Forest Service had moved the batteries to a location under the hood, I don't have the battery box in my cab. With two boys, it was a bit tough for all "the Taylor boys" to have fun driving around in the M715, since there's only one passenger seat. So I got a Deuce passenger seat from Mike that I adapted to fit.

    Here's what I started with:




    I wire-wheeled the rust and flaky paint off the frame, primed it and sprayed it USMC green. I threw out the old covers along with the nasty horsehair and rusty springs, cut out a new base out of 3/4" plywood. I got 4" closed-cell foam for the seat base and 2" for the padding on the back and got a new set of canvas covers from Mona at New Life Canvas.

    I cut off the front left leg and shortened the others to fit reasonably close to the stock height of the driver's seat. Installed a third seatbelt and now I'm good to go!









    The seat back still folds down for a nice diamond-plate base and the seat bottom flips up for access to underneath. Perhaps I'll put a box down there for loose stuff.





    It was remarkably easy to make this modification. If anyone would like detail pics of my hack-job on the legs, just say the word.
    Last edited by Binford; May 28th, 2007 at 03:41 PM.
    -- Tim Taylor


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    All I can say is WOW. I may have to do the same...

    Although I like my kid's girlfriend to be a bit further away.
    Nice work dude. And to think I didn't get your autograph while I was in Seattle...

    Phil starts banging head against wall.
    Go Ahead, Make my day

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    Nice work!
    67 M725 67 M715 68 M715

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    Timmah! Excellent Work! Looks Factory! You want to come to my house and make my stuff look so purrty!
    Zone holster maker

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    That looks good Tim.

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    Looks good Tim.

    How was the wood on the seat bottom? I need to make my M35 seats work in the M35 and the wood is all rotten is why I ask and am looking for tips on making a new one.
    Remember if you didn't build it you can't call it yours.

    6.2 powered M715, 5 M1009's, M416, 2 M101's, 2 M105's, 3 M35's, M1007 6.5 turbo Suburban project called Cowdog.

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    The wood was shot. One of the two hinge brackets had ripped out through the wood. The other I ground the two studs off and then used carriage bolts to secure them both on the new wood.

    I just got a piece of 3/4" plywood and traced out the shape using the old one laid on top of it and cut it out with a jigsaw.

    I cut the front left leg completely off to the level of the sheetmetal that runs from front to back. I cut 3" off the back legs and 2" off the front right. Were I to do it again, I'd have cut 2" off the back as well. The seat base would have been a bit higher, but the back wouldn't be so reclined. I could grind a little off that front left area and cut another inch off the front right leg, but it's not that big of a deal.
    -- Tim Taylor


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    I went to drive the duece this morning and my seat was GONE! Anybody seen one laying around lately?





















    Nice work Tim! Very well done.
    Liz, covid, murdered 10/19/21

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    That's great Binford! I might have to do the same with mine in the POS mod truck. I hate to lose the center console, but I like that 40/60 bench style seating. If I can get a lock box under the seat, I'm going to put out feelers for a deuce seat and copy your setup.

    If possible, please provide a photo or two of the seat bottom in the up position, so I can see how much space you've got under the seat for a box. Thanks in advance.

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    The space under the seat measures 8" high at the lowest point at the back and 9" high at the front (since I took 3" off the legs on the back and only 2" off the front). The angle piece running horizontally across the back is 6-1/2" above the floor, which would be the lowest-most point under the seat. That angle is 16" from the front of the seat.




    With the seat bottom flipped up, you still have the 8 inches under the lowest point of the seat and the floor is completely opened up 9-1/2" (from the front of the leg to the now-vertical seat bottom).




    And here's one more low-angle view of the space:




    Hope that helps....
    -- Tim Taylor


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