swivel seats

[NomadTodds]

Excellent. Thanks BCLEMENS for the wonderful info!

Brad

[Ljqvgp]

Excellent info. Will be checking for our 2011 3120 Sunseeker

[forestgray]

Thanks bclemens for all the great info, looking forward to feedback from owners installing these.

[forestgray]

I called my Forest River Parts Dept. today and had them check out the seat bases for a 2011 Sunseeker 2450S on a E-450 chassis. He called me back and said the swivel bases will only fit on Ford chassis built after Feb. 2013 due to the way the reinforcement was in the cab, oh well it was worth a shot.

[bclemens]

I have a call in to engineering to talk about that. We do not reinforce the cab area to my knowledge. That is a Ford thing. The only thing we changed was the floor build in the passenger area since the passenger seat is 2" further back than the driver.

So as I have stated before, the passenger side can NOT be installed in any unit prior to Feb 2013. However, to my knowledge there is nothing stopping us from doing the driver seat. I have been wrong before...but not often.

[bclemens]

Confirmed with engineering, does not seem to be an issue. Who did you talk to?

[stephanel]

Hi, I'm new here, sorry for m'y English I speak french, I bought m'y swivel seat last week and received it 3days ago, it's installed now.

Very easy to Install I think and it fit perfectly (passenger side), I've took a lot of picture of the installation and I will post here this weekend If I have the time.

The cost for the seat was $365 + shipping and handling, it took me 1h30 to Install. They've made a very good job.

[martin73]

Hi Martin73 here, we have aGtown 337,2010yr. have swivel seats but cant get them to go all the way around? tx for any info.

[stephanel]

Hi, here's the pictures (Part 1) of the Swivel seat installation in my Freelander 19CB (Ford), My RV dealer order it from Forest River (US) I'm from Canada and here's the part number:
C01231142 SWIVEL PEDESTAL ASSY, PASSENGER SIDE
For any question about the installation let me know.


Stephane

[stephanel]

Here's the part 2, pictures installation, Hope you like it!
It's not a cheap after market swivel base.

Stephane

[ejkkj]

I just bought a new 2500TS Friday. Dealer knew nothing about how to work the swivel seats. I worked on them when I got home, what the dealer told me about how to make them swivel was wrong. I managed to get the passenger side to work fine but the drivers side will slide in at the 45 degree angle but it will not swivel. There is a pin in bottom that is supposed to go up into a hole in the base of the swivel part but the pin does not line up? Is there a way to adjust something to get the pin to line up and go up into the hole? I would prefer not to take it back to the dealer where I bought it, its an hour trip and even the head service man had no idea how the swivel seats work. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[bclemens]

You have to slide it at 45 degrees with some oomph. If you slide it slowly it never gets there...sort of slam it over gently

[ejkkj]

I did that, hard, easy, etc. it will not swivel. The stainless steel pin that comes up from the bottom does not go into the upper hole, in any position that the seat is in. You can see this pin in the early posts pictures above. Without this pin in the upper hole the seat will not swivel. It is about a 1/4 inch off, the bracket it is on was either bent or put on wrong. What I can not tell without taking the seat apart is there a way to adjust something to get the pin to line up? thanks

[NomadTodds]

I have the exact same issue i had quite a workout trying to make my swivel, it only moved sideways but i could never get it to swivel. I figured there must be something i was missing. I was out of breath and gave up after a while. I may have the pin issue you mentioned. Any pointers welcome as well.