Removing front seats '87 saltare

[MATTH53]

I am rebuilding a 1987 supra saltare and would like to know how the front bow seats come out. If anyone has removed them please let me know.

[sybrmike]

Always good to see another Saltare on the board. How extensive of a rebuild?

Forward facing seat backs - accessable under the dash and through the port storage locker.

Rear side panels - I don't remember how I got to the rear bolts (maybe up from under the bow playpen opening). Mine were towards the top - a long reach from anywhere. I remember thinking the factory either installed those panels before the cap went on or contracted some tall lanky NBA players to assemble. The front bolts through the speaker openings.

Front side panels - through the speaker openings

Front center panel - through the bow rope storage locker

Hope this helps. Good luck!

[MATTH53]

I would have never thought to look there! We are re-flooring the boat, stringers are ok but the floorboards were rotten. New carpet and trying to re-upholster the interior haha we will see how that one goes. I will also be adding a wake tower, not sure how hard that is. Again thank you so much for the advice!

[Okie Boarder]

How do you know the stringers are OK?

syber got you covered on getting the seats out. They're similar in the Sunsports, as well.

[MATTH53]

We pulled the floor boards all the way out and found no rot in the stringers. We drilled a couple holes and all the wood was solid. I assume it would have been pretty eveident if the stringers were bad right? I want to do this project right so if I may have over looked anything I absolutly would welcome better advice. The old floor boards are not rotten but while we had them out I just thought I'd put new ones in.

[Okie Boarder]

If you drilled holes and found good wood, you're probably ok. I'd try drilling a couple holes towards the bottoms of the stringers in the bilge. See if any water seeps out. Take a core sample of foam near the main stringers also to see if there is any water in the foam.

[MATTH53]

I had not thought of that at all. We did that after we read this and found the foam was dry as a bone and the bottom of th stringers good. The hull floor looks like it has some brand new epox in it also. It was a one owner and so far everything the guy told me was true. He thought the engine was siezed, but we put a little transmission fluid soak in each cylinder over night and the next morning sucked it out and the engine has ran great since with great compression all around!

[saltare inverts]

Im have redone about 75 percent of my upholstery and put my own tower on my 86 saltare. If you have any questions I would be glad to help.

[MATTH53]

We will be asking you for pointers for sure haha. Does anyone know if the cooler for the front of the saltares is somthing that can be found at all. When I bought mine it didnt have one in it.

[87SunSportMikeyD]

Matt You freaking rock bud! It is so awesome to hear about someone's boat with solid stringers haha! Good on ya' for replacing the floorboards, this will help the life of the stringers. I would put new carpet in too, mine is so shot.

Would love to see some pics!!

You should be able to find the cooler from someone parting out their boat. There should be one on the classifieds forum right now. Otherwise try Jim at Viper or call Anthony in parts at Supra for other sugesstions.

The tower should be okay to get on. The hardest part is reaching the underside of the hull to attach the tower mounts and backing plates. The rear ones I did throught the cabin speaker holes, the front ones by crawling into the open bow storage space. I taped my mounting plates to me backing plates and taped the bolts on too - all I did was hold it against the inside of the hull and have someone else turn the bolts. I have pics of this in my signature gallery under Monster Tower Install. :) Good luck!

[MATTH53]

Thanks Mikey, we are replacing the carpet as well. I have looked at a lot of marine carpet, started with a light gray that my boat had when I got it. Completed the flooring and decided I hated it haha. So we ripped all of that carpet out and going with black as to not show so many stains. I live in Washington State, so the carpet getting too hot is not an issue here haha. I am doing all new upholstery as well in black, we will see how that turns out I guess. I am also re-designing the saltare back seat to be a bench style instead to have more walk room. Thanks for the parts contacts I will see what I can find.

[87SunSportMikeyD]

Yeah the rear bench seat is so weird the way they made it. I have seen people retain the same shape and same cushins but they rebuild the base to hold a sac. Other option that I want to do eventually is buy a hard tank to act as the rear bench seat base and just set the top on there. I rebuilt mine as well (the base) to hold a 260lb sac.

Not sure about the black vinyl, gutsy move! :)

[MATTH53]

I wasnt too sure either about going black for the interior, but once I did the first piece I loved it....I will post some pics very soon!

[Okie Boarder]

You might check with Jim for carpet if you haven't gotten any already. I got mine from him. I got the medium grey they are putting in the new Supras. I bet he has the same style in black.

[MATTH53]

I had a friend in town by the Marina who works at a one of the marine shops and got a discount on some carpet from another friend...not sure how many hands it passed through haha I just know I got a pretty good deal.

[zalamander]

haha... solid stringers... where's the fun in that! J/K That's awesome news, I'm envious of anyone not having to go through this mess. I wanted to add that Home Depot and even Lowes have some really good outdoor capret at bargain prices...especially if you just want grey. I don't know if you can order special colors, but I did see grey and black. I'm not to that bridge yet, but I'm sure I'll burn it down when I get there. I wan't to see some pics too of the black.. I am wanting to do that as well and need a visual.

[MATTH53]

Yeah I saw those carpets also, probably the same stuff I bought at a cheaper price, but oh well haha. My cousin and I are rebuilding mine. His name on here is ilikeboats....you can see him on my friends list. He updates pictures of the boat all the time. My wife is a photographer and wasnt happy at first doing the "black on black" color scheme...but now that we have some of it done she loves it.

[MATTH53]

So we were just going to do all black, but the wife added blue and I loved it.

[devovino]

Hey, do you remember how you got the piece of upholstry out that is behind the throttle and next to the Drivers seat, I saw screws, pullen them, there were screws that hold the throttle in place pulled them, it still seems to be in there pretty good. I saw you replace this piece, wondering if you remember how you got this piece off, did you have to disconnect the throtle behind the wood backer? I had to take a break and do some research before I broke something. Well hopefully you can help, Thanks Devon