Van Repairs

As the like ten people who read my blog know, I'm a fairly large guy. When I bought my 1994 Chrysler Town and Country, I was told that there was no way to move the driver's seat back and that caused a bit of a problem for me. After a year or so, the back of the driver's seat had bent down to the point that it laid as far back as it could.

Enter Kevin, geek of the mechanical arts, who came up with a plan to replace the broken driver's seat with the seat directly behind it--an interesting and cheap solution. We then started discussing how best to avoid the same thing from happening to the new seat to which Kevin proposed fabricating a set of rails to move the seat back several inches.

It had been a long time since I'd worked in a garage... and by "long time," I mean a decade or so. This project seemed interesting and as I have been more and more active lately, I took him up on his offer.

We took pictures throughout the process, which he'll be posting as part of an article on his site. I'll link do that once he finishes the write up.

It took us four hours and a single strip of 36"x1.5"x.25" steel to get the job done and now I'm riding in comfort again for the first time in months.

Unfortunately we also discovered that I have a transmission fluid leak so now I need to get that fixed along with a vaccuum leak and a strange anti-lock brake light that randomly comes on... :(

Edit: Here's Kevin's article.