Done it on several cars, the outer ‘issue’ is the seat frame hitting the cover over the rear spring front shackle, I worked in my then new 2008 +4 with Shaun at Allon Whites where I removed and cut the top off the covers and he made a leather ‘gaiter’ to fit, just to stop water and dirt ingress a little as there is a large hole there anyway and the MMC don’t seal the covers anyway so mainly this was to make us feel better as it was a neater job. The next issue is the inboard side of the seat frames hit the large cast safety cover over the rear prop shaft UJ (it’s there incase the rear UJ explodes apparently but never seen that after 50 years in the trade!) that’s a bigger issue do we went as far back as we could. I am 6’ 3” so needed every inch we could get. I thought of cutting and stepping in the seat frame but decided not to as the frame doesn’t look that resilient. We did consider removing the seat cover, heating the lower corner of the frame and impact engineering (hit with hammer) the frame across an inch.
That should help enormously but I also spotted the column height is restricted by the steering column cowl hitting the dash, if you cut a post box style slot in the top of the plastic cover and add a piece of leather you can get another half inch above your knees!
Every bit helps!
BR
Colin
Last edited by Spanner Juggler; 25/04/20 10:32 AM.
