Is there a difference between the buckets out of a two door and a four door Maverick? I did a search and didn't come across anything on this. Thanks!
They will bolt in the same but they do not lean foward like a 2dr seat would. So if you dont need access to the back seat in your car its all good but if you need back there look for a set of 2dr seats.
MNTony: I have 4 door seats in mine. You will need to modifi them to get them to fold forward. They will bolt in but you also need to shim the tracks as well. They don't just bolt in. Good Luck!
I have installed 4-door buckets seats in a 2-door car. They bolted right in .. no shims or spacers required beside the factory ones on the factory tracks. Not sure why you had to shim anything unless you didn't have all the peices ...
I haven't looked at them too closely yet. They are covered in dirt and still in my buddies yard. But I was considering recovering them and putting them in place of my bench seat. I do like the look of the bench with a four speed though. Anyhow, does anyone know if there is there a thread that covers changing them to fold forward?
dmhines : I'm sure you are right I had to make parts to fit my install. Also got checking & I think my seats are out of a later model than mine as well. They where out of the car in storage for a number of years so things get lost. Thanks for pointing that out.
I am currently in the middle of a bench to bucket conversion and have run into several miscues/problems. First I have 76 Stallion seats going into a 74 2 door Mav with a bench. Secondly I have tracks from both the 76 Stallion AND a 74 LDO bucket seat setup. Now one would think (that one being me) that I would have enough parts to do the job. WRONG. Driver side no problem, well once the newly recovered seats went back to the upholstery shop to put the right top on the right bottom and put the left top on the left bottom. However I ran into a small problem on the passenger side. The inside track is designed differently in two ways, first it is longer between the bolts to the floor, 14 " vice 12 " for the 74 and it is also set up for a higher floor to clear the cat. So using the LDO inside track for a 74 car in a 74 car using 76 buckets left the passenger bucket listing to the driver's side. Seems I am going to have to use about an inch of spacing to level the seat. That and the upholstery shop failed to mention that the driver seat has a broken cable so it wouldn't release to lean forward. But I have acquired a ratty set of seats to get parts from. Just another day of fun and learning! rk
the seat tracks on pre-'74 cars are diffrent because the floor pans dont have the buldge on the passanger side for the cat
I addressed that issue, go back and re-read what I said about the floor pan being different to clear the cat. What I ran into is this: I have a 74 car, no cat, I am using seat tracks from a 74 car with bucket seats and no cat, what I found is even using 74 tracks in a 74 car there is a height difference when using 76 seats. It appears that after I compared the seat bottoms for the passenger seat from the 74 to the 76 that there is about an inch differnce in height, as in the 76 appears to be shorter by an inch. So now I am going to bolt the inside track down to the floor, then bolt the seat in with outside track only, this will allow me to raise the seat to level it and then measure how thick of a spacer I need pretty accurately. I had just assumed that the seat bottoms were all the same and compensation for the floor difference was made up with the tracks and stand offs. I assumed and I was wrong. rk
Yes.......the seats are different on the passenger side bottom as you have discovered between the cat cars and non-cat cars.
I knew I had two things to consider as in tracks and floors, however found out about the third, seat bottom, as they say the hard way. No biggee, I can work aound that. rk
