Rog and Gambalunga,
I too am a Land Rover man and you are right about the heavy clutch action Rog and yes its not a real problem even though it makes the Morgan look quite light in comparison. I'm not tall either Rog, 5'9", perhaps a little less these days! So I don't know if this will help you gambalunga. I found sitting in the Morgan that your feet were in the same plane as your backside in that you are sitting with your feet straight out in front of you. When depressing the clutch a lot of ankle flex is required and some leg extension. This for me had two issues when lots of clutch action was required. Firstly, Ankle fatigue and secondly, leg extension is coming from the hip, this caused me to fight the front bolster of the seat with the back of my leg and quickly My leg became sore and uncomfortable, to the point where I actually thought this is the most uncomfortable badly designed car I have ever had the option of driving! Now that made me wonder why the L/R didn't present me with such issues so I pulled the Mog seat forward to bend my knee a little and clear the front seat edge, It helped with the contact under my knee to some extent but not enough and of course what do you do with your bent leg when not clutching! That was a bl**dy pain too! So what could I do and what made the Land Rover so comfortable over the Mog. Seating position! Yes a far more upright position. So I made some seat spacers and fitted them, Now this made things a lot better, almost comfortable and my journeys got longer but I was still getting fatigue after an hour plus although not nearly as bad as before, but what it did was allow me to see the issue more clearly in that it was now just the action of extending my leg which was still fighting the front edge of the seat perhaps even more so than before. I had the car on the lift to whip the wheels of for cleaning shortly after fitting the spacers/seat risers and the sill was at about chin height and looking at the seat position from a true side aspect rather than looking down on it. I could see that it had a quite pronounced rearward tilt, light bulb moment here! So I whipped the spacers back out and profiled them to taper from level with the front chassis crossmember to the back of the seat runner at a shade under an inch. I then refitted the spacers and jumped in using a step ladder. OMG It's a different car altogether! It's changed from driving something akin to a hand cart with a box for a seat into something that feels as though it was fitted for me. Rog, I know this will help you but Gambalunga being so tall I don't know If you could tolerate raising your seat height. Perhaps a taper from the rear at say 1/2" to almost nothing at the front. The straight line under the runners would be stable as the rear two bolts would keep the orientation. I'm loving this solution but my leg loves it way more! Hope it helps you and others, I really could not believe just how much difference this made!
Last edited by sewin; 14/04/25 12:17 PM.
