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Installing Rear dinette [message #312820]

Sun, 05 February 2017 12:19

Glenbrook75

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I recently purchased a 1975 Glenbrook with a permanent rear bed which is far to small for my wife and I so we would like to remove the front dinette and crunch and built two single beds up front. Has anyone any idea if the front dinette can be installed in rear. I know it is narrower and base could not be used. Terry 75 Glenbrook

Terry 75 Glenbrook Dauphin, Manitoba

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Re: Installing Rear dinette [message #312824 is a reply to message #312820]

Sun, 05 February 2017 13:45

A Hamilto

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Glenbrook75 wrote on Sun, 05 February 2017 12:19

I recently purchased a 1975 Glenbrook with a permanent rear bed which is far to small for my wife and I so we would like to remove the front dinette and crunch and built two single beds up front. Has anyone any idea if the front dinette can be installed in rear. I know it is narrower and base could not be used. Terry 75 Glenbrook

The front dinettes in my 73's were less than 40" wide. The rear dinette I have from a Palm Beach is 48" wide with a 6" bolster, allowing it to convert to a 54" wide double bed. I don't know how wide the Glenbrook dinette is.

But other than width concerns, all it takes to move a dinette is fabrication skills, or the money to hire someone with those skills.

The height of the generator compartment required me to build up the floor 3" - 4" when I converted the permanent bed to a dinette.

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Re: Installing Rear dinette [message #312825 is a reply to message #312820]

Sun, 05 February 2017 13:47

Matt Colie

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Glenbrook75 wrote on Sun, 05 February 2017 13:19

I recently purchased a 1975 Glenbrook with a permanent rear bed which is far to small for my wife and I so we would like to remove the front dinette and crunch and built two single beds up front. Has anyone any idea if the front dinette can be installed in rear. I know it is narrower and base could not be used. Terry 75 Glenbrook

Terry,

There is so much different, that I can bet it would be easier to just get the dinette out, build the beds and see what you can reuse in the rear. There is still APU shed, the potable tank and the LP box that all determine the space back there.

Just take lots of pictures.

Matt

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Re: Installing Rear dinette [message #312834 is a reply to message #312824]

Sun, 05 February 2017 14:30

Glenbrook75

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I will have to measure mine is not home yet have to pu once snow is gone but I had read somewhere the dinette is 48 inches. I think mine was originally a dinette in back so hoping will not take too much, but will have to see. I sorta thought that they would make the parts interchangeable for economic sense .

Terry 75 Glenbrook Dauphin, Manitoba

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Re: Installing Rear dinette [message #312836 is a reply to message #312834]

Sun, 05 February 2017 14:37

A Hamilto

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Glenbrook75 wrote on Sun, 05 February 2017 14:30

...I sorta thought that they would make the parts interchangeable for economic sense .

They might have in later models. The 73 front dinette is just wooden cabinetry with foam cushions. Not steel and upholstered foam like the Palm Beach rear dinette I installed in the rear.

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Re: Installing Rear dinette [message #312856 is a reply to message #312820]

Mon, 06 February 2017 08:51

lqqkatjon

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ask and look around. There are so many people switching out rear seating for a permanent bed, you should be able to find something for about free. You probably could trade someone that is looking for that front dinette, and I know a few people looking for the bunk/couch.

from what I have run across, pretty much any of that rear seating area should fit that 75 glenbrook, as long as it is the 75-78 models, with the rear side facing settee/double bed. Palm beach, glenbrook, eleganza II. ect...

Jon Roche 75 palm beach EBL EFI, manny headers, Micro Level, rebuilt most of coach now. St. Cloud, MN http://lqqkatjon.blogspot.com/

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