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jimmer2880
03-07-2005, 01:45 PM
On the old board, I remember someone talking about possibly installing a swivel seat adapter? Since my wife will be up to 8-9 months pregnant by the end of the season, AND she's my favorite driver, I want to be able to accomodate her & her pouch.Any advice here? I have a '95 PS190 with the stock sliding driver's seat.
AirJunky
03-07-2005, 03:55 PM
Not sure if there is enough room in there to spin the driver's seat.
But a friend of mine got a hold of 6 of the air ride shock mechanisms out of a Kenworth truck. He installed one in a Centaurian Falcon & my brother in a 88 PS190. They lifted the seat a few inches & made the driver's seat a cush ride in the chop!
jimmer2880
03-10-2005, 05:52 AM
Not sure if there is enough room in there to spin the driver's seat.
But a friend of mine got a hold of 6 of the air ride shock mechanisms out of a Kenworth truck. He installed one in a Centauriam Falcon & my brother in a 88 PS190. They lifted the seat a few inches & made the driver's seat a cush ride in the chop!
now that's original!
Those old Falcon's were great boats. I know some people who still drive them.
rasmithaz
03-10-2005, 11:32 AM
If you think you have the room to swivel the seat and want original mastercraft seat swivel that was used on earlier model years www.greatlakesskipper.com. These guys come up with hard to find parts for you guys with older Mastercraft boats that you want to restore. They have helped me out several times with original parts that are impossible to find.
jimmer2880
03-10-2005, 12:05 PM
If you think you have the room to swivel the seat and want original mastercraft seat swivel that was used on earlier model years www.greatlakesskipper.com (http://www.greatlakesskipper.com/). These guys come up with hard to find parts for you guys with older Mastercraft boats that you want to restore. They have helped me out several times with original parts that are impossible to find.
great - but I'm pretty sure one of the regular members on this board bought one from west marine that truely "bolted right up". I wish I could remember who it was.
If I don't get any bites, I'll probably end up looking them up.
FrankSchwab
03-10-2005, 01:39 PM
This (http://www.overtons.com/cgi-bin/overtons/detail/pdetail2.cgi?r=detail_view&item_num=34967) appears to be the exact item bolted to the driver's seat in my 1998 Maristar 200VRS.
Yes, it allows you to swivel. Yes, it allows you to slide the seat forward and back.
No, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The slide mechanism is cranky, and the swivel pretty much requires a second person to help you actually turn. This is after dissassembling and cleaning all of the mechanisms. Both controls ( the screw-down clamp for the slide, and the lever for the swivel) are difficult for me to reach while sitting in the seat, and I'm not pregnant.
Is it really that hard to build a seat using a lazy susan-type swivel assembly, with a click-stop slide assembly like every car built since 1948, and put the levers someplace easy to reach?
/frank
p.s. The slide/swivel platform is built by Garelick. They have some cool parts Here (http://www.garelick.com/marine/product_catalog_detail.aspx?cat=psth&subcat=sss) that you might find useful.
I started a thread on the old site about swivel seats. A guy on ebay was selling what he called a Mastercraft swivel w/ forward and back adjustment. It looked good and robust but he was one of those guys who charges you $40+ for shipping and I couldn't get any mounting hole information. So I never bought it. There're not many swivels with front/back adjustment. Plenty of lightweight swivels. Think about the forces and torque on them when people climb in and out of the driver's seat. There is also a lot of torque on this type of swivel when the slides are at the end of their limit.
I did see where a guy spent quite a bit of effort making his own. Started with a standard swivel and welded on additional support and additional bearings. He ended up with a nice setup but it was a lot of trial and error for him.
The ones in my van work great but they are too high and are too loose.
jimmer2880
03-14-2005, 06:06 AM
thanks for the replies. Guess that's why it never made it into my vat of usless info. Hmmm.... made his own you say.... hmmm....
Visit to West Marine this weekend reminded me of the other issue. All the good sliding swivels that I could find are made to be mounted on a tube or pipe pedestal, not a fiberglass box base.
jimmer2880
03-14-2005, 03:17 PM
Visit to West Marine this weekend reminded me of the other issue. All the good sliding swivels that I could find are made to be mounted on a tube or pipe pedestal, not a fiberglass box base.
Ok - I thought someone found an adapter to add the swivel capibilities to their existing sliding seat.
Glad I asked here first.