Buckets seats installed!

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  1. mashori

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    I have a little tweaking to do but they are installed and functional. Each seat has 3 bolts that are bolted to the body and one bolt that's free floating. The floating bolts are the ones that are on the back of the seat, facing the tranny hump.

    So I still need to figure out how I'm gonna build a bracket to bolt the rear bolt to and then drill a hole for the bracket.

    The seats are 1966 mustang seats. The only stock bolt hole I used was the one in the front towards the door. I had to drill 2 new holes for each seat. I can give you details for the measurements if you want them. Took me 1.5 hours for the first seat I did and 30minutes for the passenger side because I figured it out. VERY easy.



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    Looks good!
     
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    Looks good. I see you got the "BFH" out just incase :rofl2:
     
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    and I used it too! and you notice the duct tape? used that too. Now that's a TRUE DIY job when you have the BFH and the duct tape.
     
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    I saw that when I went back and looked. I am trying to imagine what in the world you would use duct tape on for this... I figure maybe to fix the hammer lol.
     
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    OK, you asked! so, i used the hammer to gently (yea right) bend the metal tab that goes under the car to strengthen the stock hole on the body. Then I used the duct tape because when I would bend the back of the seats forward to access the rear seat the metal tab was so sharp that it was tearing my vinyl. So used duct tape and covered the sharp metal.

    Now, if I wasn't so ghetto, I would have used a saw to cut a hole in the metal except of hammering it back and would have used a flat file to file down the metal . . . eh!
     
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    Did it work? ... Alright then...;)
     

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