Bucket seats for later Mavericks using early tracks

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  1. Dan Greenbaum

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    I got my new carpet and bucket seats in my car yesterday and things are really starting to come together. I used fox body mustang seats and seat tracks from and earlier Maverick.
    On the driver side, the seat tracks were a perfect fit to the floor but I had to drill 2 holes in the seat to bolt up the tracks.
    On the passenger side, the mustang seat was a perfect mach to the maverick tracks. The problem was with the inner track and the floor pan. The floor is elevated for a catalytic converter so the inner bucket seat track cannot be used- its too tall. The problem is resolved by using the driver side seat track from a maverick bench seat which you already have if you are converting from bench to bucket. Only one small modification has to be made to this track. The front of the track will sit on the cat hump and the rear will need about a 1 inch spacer to level the track out. As a result, the rear mounting bolt is too short to pass through the spacer and the floor. Just cut off the short bolt,drill off the head and pass a longer one through. No need to even weld it back in place b/c it will not spin when you tighten the seat down b/c the bolt head is held in the track (you'll see what I mean).
    You can obviously avoid this by getting bucket seat tracks from a maverick with the cat hump but earlier tracks will also work very well with this solution.
    Good luck
     
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    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    Sounds much simplier than what I did on my 77. I cut a section out of the center (lenght wise) and welded the top and bottom sections back together.
     

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