The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: Justin B. on November 27, 2006, 12:19:26 PM
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The '82 LS seat pan is pretty much shot, edges rotted off, holes, etc. I took it off this past weekend to see if there was enough solid stuff left to weld on and pretty much decided it was a lost cause.
But, the more I stared at it, and compared it to a regular 81-84 seat, I started noticing how similar they were. After much "pondering" I came to the conclusion that the only difference in the pans is the cutouts along the bottom rear edges to facilitate mating with the LS seat cowl. There may be enough "meat" left on the LS pan for me to make a template from and saw these cutouts into a standard '81 - '84 pan.
Of course, there could be some more subtle differences that are not readily noticeable that will cause this "operation" to fail but I think I'm gonna give it a try. I had originally put an '84 seat on the '80 R65"RS" and I finally came up with a good solid '79-'80 pan and foam so I can build the correct seat for the '80. I can then use the '84 seat as the guinea pig and if my observations are correct then my seat problem is solved. I had posted here, boxerworks, and ibmwr and have had one response at $85 for just the pan, I think that's a tad steep.
Anybody else had these two seats side-by-side and came to the same conclusion?
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Justin, wish I knew you needed a stock seat, I recently "gave" away the one from my '84 on Ebay for 10 bucks. The cover was split up, but the foam was okay, and the pan was great.
I'll keep my eyes open, and you might want to contact Rev. Eddie too: he's sitting on a motherload of R65 parts, but just moved and has everything in storage.
Good luck.
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My '80 seat was aan e-Bay give-away for about the same price. :) I think the shipping was twice what I paid for the seat, ratty cover but good foam and the pan looked almost new! :o I may look for another just so I don't have to carve up a good seat, I'd probably never get the cover back on straight... :P
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Justin, just spotted a guy at http://www.ibmwr.org/market who's selling parts from a '79 R65, including a seat with "good foam and seat pan with 'hindges' ", for 25 bucks. Up in NH.
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I saw that but the 79-80 seats are shaped differently in the back than the 81-84 seats. Bummer!
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The '79-'80s had a smaller storage compartment in the rear.