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Hi Stewart
I once had a 1938 series 1 with a seat bladder (you can still get spare bladders from Uncle Melvyn) so decided to go that route. Bladders are too big so used a couple of wheel barrow inner tubes - good quality ones, two cycle inner tubes, and two lengths of flexible plastic tubing.
Remove air valves from wheel barrow tubes, clamp on the tubing (about 12" in length. Take the cycle tubes and cut off the valve stems, insert the valve stems in the other end of the tubing and clamp.
Hey presto two simple and quick seat bladders. Wrap them in some rubber matting (there are some sharp edges under there) and insert under the seats, pump up until firm - Simple.
David 2001 4/4 4 seater Sort of sounds like you end up sitting on a toilet seat! How do you fill the centre? Nick Nick, the width between seat sliders is only about 7" so the tube compresses into an oval shape, it's very comfortable. 
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Stewart,
If it transpires you have the fabric mesh and rubber combo webbing on your seat base and want to keep the car authentic, Melvyn Rutter sells a new sheet of the stuff for about £40, enough for two seats. I've just done my drivers seat, though it is a 1989 bucket type, not reclining like yours. I now sit about 2 inches higher...
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Stewart,
If it transpires you have the fabric mesh and rubber combo webbing on your seat base and want to keep the car authentic, Melvyn Rutter sells a new sheet of the stuff for about £40, enough for two seats. I've just done my drivers seat, though it is a 1989 bucket type, not reclining like yours. I now sit about 2 inches higher... Thanks for info
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Well as there is no America's Cup racing on tonight, thought I would repair my car seat Removed it from the Mog - that was a hard job - bolt heads spinning where it was inaccessible to get a spanner in but overcame it by jamming a metal file in the chair runner - you can see it's yellow handle in the photo  The reason for the saggy bottom is because the rubber mesh that forms the bottom of the foam (is it called webbing or a diaphragm ?) has split neatly in a straight line letting the foam seat padding come out  My idea for a fix is to put metal eyelets in each side of the spilt rubber and lace up like a shoe Here goes (TM silence for a couple of hours)
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Stewart, I found the same with my seat mount bolts spinning. I have a small Stilson style wrench that fitted into the channel and locked the bolts. When refitting I used socket head bolts so no spanner needed.
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Stewart, I found the same with my seat mount bolts spinning. I have a small Stilson style wrench that fitted into the channel and locked the bolts. When refitting I used socket head bolts so no spanner needed. It's a reet pain isn't it ? My tool set or knowledge isn't that comprehensive Could have done with longer arms as well
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Well so far so good The eyelets are going in nicely 
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Good luck with the repair Stewart, while you are at it, you might want to consider also reinforcing your lacing by criss crossing underneath the diaphragm with heavy fishing line (at least 200lb bs) as a belt and braces job? Might last a bit longer spreading the load a bit.
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Good luck with the repair Stewart, while you are at it, you might want to consider also reinforcing your lacing by criss crossing underneath the diaphragm with heavy fishing line (at least 200lb bs) as a belt and braces job? Might last a bit longer spreading the load a bit. As an alternative to fishing line, you might want to try nylon strimmer line, that's what I used and it worked very well.
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