need photo of seat pan base...

scuderia

scuderia

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bought a 3CL seat on ebay and it arrived with the front tabs cut off.. trying to get some $$ back from seller. If someone could post a photo of a metal based 3CL bolt on seat I'd appreciate it. Just need the bottom front section where the frame "points" slide in..
Thanks,
Don
 
Hope these help, newly refurbished, hinges not yet attached.

 

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Errr. You did mention it, I just didn't read that far. Just read 3CL seat - sorry.
 
Don I hope the picture is clear enough. Should at least give you an idea at least.

Tom
 

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Hey Don, you need the early glass fibre seat for your 3c drumbrake replica, not the metal one!!
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ciao - Marco
 
Hi Don was it advertised as a 3CL seat ? they are not bolt on ones and only the 3C seats have the slots for the front mounts if I remember correctly .
                                    Kev
 
Tom Eatman said:
Don I hope the picture is clear enough. Should at least give you an idea at least.

Tom
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thanks tom..that's the base. the two pieces or rectangular tubing have been removed from the seat I got. easy enough to weld back on if I had them, have to figure out where to source.
 
Ah now I see, and helps explain my own confusion. 3CL seats are hinged. 3C are bolt on. If the seat was advertised as 3CL it will not have the slots as per the photos. My seat is from a 1976 3CL, the first of the breed.
 
just for clarification this is the seat I have, two in fact. one very early with fiberglass pan  and now one with a metal pan original but messed with. I know they came on '75's but what about '74 and '76? Always so hard with Laverda and their exceptions.
 

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Don, you could do something like that: this is the way I fix the broken fiberglass seats - they ALWAYS break. It works. You only need a piece of 30x5 metal bracket.
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btw the bike in your pic must be late '73 / early '74 (pre-oil cooler, big headlamp etc.). The 3CL  (hinged seat, alloy wheels etc.) appeared in late '75, so no bolt on seats in '76.
Ciao - Marco
 
Don, my late '73/early '74 3c seat had a steel base (thin, got very rusty) but didn't have the steel inserts attached like in the pictures, just had slits in the seat base panel (like the fibreglass one pictured). There might have been some extra stiffening inside the slits, I don't remember if I ever looked, but that was definitely an early factory seat. And it did look just like the one in your picture (drool).
I think the metal inserts you're looking for are some sort of aftermarket thing, I've never seen them on a seat before. I'd keep looking for another 3c seat, they're not that rare, plus there are plastic replicas (that don't rust). If it's not a replica and you're not concerned with total authenticity, that's what I'd use.

Ken
 
Thanks Marco or do we call you Mario now??
anyway how did you install the bolts in the seat base for the metal plate? did you just fiberglass them in?
don
 
Don, I usually unglue a small part of the seat cover and padding to gain access and to do the holes. Then I put the brackets (see drawing - ok, it's not perfect, I made it with MS Paint...!!). I think you only need one (the bigger) bracket because you have a metal pan, not a fibreglass one.
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ciao - Mar(i)co  :D
 
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