Rotating the Dinette Bench

We never liked that the dinette bench protruded into the hallway, taking up aisle space, and making it difficult for two people to move around in the van fluidly. So after seeing someone in the Revel group rotate their dinette bench, we knew we had to do it. It's a big job, and can be pretty expensive, but it's turned out to be one of our favorite mods ever.

The work was performed by Tony & Wanda Loeza, at San Carlos German Motor Works. Tony found the job to be much easier if the electrical system has already been converted to lithium, as shown below.

We added a Lagun table, and are still working on the right tabletop. The old table is shown here for testing purposes.

One of the primary drivers for this was my wife's yoga practice. Opening up the aisle gives her much more room for her morning practice.

Keep in mind that this mod removes the seat belts, leaving a square hole in the floor from their previous mounting point. We patched it with aa piece of flooring from under the bench.

One of Tony's professional touches was to add a backboard with matching grey vinyl for supporting the back cushion.

Finally, we were extremely glad to see that our 12" subwoofer fits in the gap perfectly, like a puzzle piece.

I applied some iron-on edge banding to the wall that was trimmed, and it looks pretty close to Winnebago's fit & finish.

17-June-2021