Serendipity for the Rump
My family all know that I am working on the bus, every so often, I get a call from somebody telling me that something is on sale somewhere...
Dad: I am at the Freight Surplus store, they have what looks like an air ride chair. It is $75, do you want me to pick it up?
Me: I think it would be nice to change out the chair but, I hadn't been planning on doing it until later, I don't know if that is a good price. Can you snap some photos and send them over to me, I will do some web searches to see if it is a good deal.
...30 minutes later...
Me: Dad, yeah go ahead and get it. Depending on the model, it could as good as the bus has, just an upgrade on the upholstry or... It could be a real find and save us around $200.
Dad: Good, I didn't want to hang out there and wait for you so, I just bought it.
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Turns out we struck gold, a true air ride seat with the seat shock, and lumbar support that is controlled by air. I am going to wire a compressor into the bench seat behind the driver seat with a switch in the driing console... All that can wait until the bus is mostly done. I test fitted the seat and it is close to not fitting. My tall friends won't be comfortable in the driver seat but, I can make it work for me without having to modify it at all (there is a brake fluid tank that sits directly behind the driver seat limits how far back we can mount the seat.
I pulled the original broken driver seat and sent it to the dump. The new seat is sitting in the shed waiting to be installed. We are not moving particularly fast on the build out of the bus. That affords us the chance to have some great finds like this along the way.
Dad: I am at the Freight Surplus store, they have what looks like an air ride chair. It is $75, do you want me to pick it up?
Me: I think it would be nice to change out the chair but, I hadn't been planning on doing it until later, I don't know if that is a good price. Can you snap some photos and send them over to me, I will do some web searches to see if it is a good deal.
...30 minutes later...
Me: Dad, yeah go ahead and get it. Depending on the model, it could as good as the bus has, just an upgrade on the upholstry or... It could be a real find and save us around $200.
Dad: Good, I didn't want to hang out there and wait for you so, I just bought it.
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Turns out we struck gold, a true air ride seat with the seat shock, and lumbar support that is controlled by air. I am going to wire a compressor into the bench seat behind the driver seat with a switch in the driing console... All that can wait until the bus is mostly done. I test fitted the seat and it is close to not fitting. My tall friends won't be comfortable in the driver seat but, I can make it work for me without having to modify it at all (there is a brake fluid tank that sits directly behind the driver seat limits how far back we can mount the seat.
I pulled the original broken driver seat and sent it to the dump. The new seat is sitting in the shed waiting to be installed. We are not moving particularly fast on the build out of the bus. That affords us the chance to have some great finds like this along the way.
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