Buckets and rear seat

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  1. Bigsmo92

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    Ok, thanks Dave. If you find one great, If not I'm going to try and make something work.
    Thanks, Mike
     
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    Well i actually have the orig bench seat but i wanna switch it out what
    should i do.
     
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    Going from bench to buckets ... bucket seat tracks are the toughest part of the whole deal, especially if you want to stay with factory-style seats. You need to get the tracks and the riser blocks that go on each inboard track (a small bell-shaped one front and a square one rear for each inboard rail). Most of these cars were bench seats, so bucket seat tracks are a bit hard to get and spendy.... expect to spend $150 for a set of tracks.

    Took me a long time (years) to find some rusty LDO tracks that required a lot of work to bring them back. Of course, I found another crusty set about three months later ... :biglaugh:

    If you want to go with aftermarket seats, they usually come with kits to make a set of rails (or a solid mount ... usually for race-only cars with one driver). You will have to fabricate the whole set-up, and the floor is not level, so you would have to make different risers inboard (and perhaps outboard, too).
     
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    call me redneck... but a 12lb hammer works good on that hump on the passenger side. did for me anyway
     

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