Help with bucket install...help !!!
HAHAHA.....I am actually in the middle of a bucket seat install in my duster......no kidding....RIGHT NOW (taking a break and cooling off for a minute)
I picked up a set of leather buckets out of an 09 acurra tl type S.
the problem with going to newer seats alot of the time is that they are wider than factory buckets (found out the hard way lol).
I originally had a bench seat.
between the seats being the width that they are and A bodies having an offset trans tunnel by a few inchs ....there is no way I could use the stock bucket seat bolt hole locations (4 dimples on each side of the floor pan)....the drivers side seat would be fine but since the trans tunnel is offset my passenger seat would dang near have to bolt on top of the trans tunnel.
SO what I did to solve this little problem was as follows....
My seats are power and already have tracks on them.
I ended up utilizing the existing bench seat mounting holes (2 bolt holes on the raised humps on each side of the floor pan) and I then welded 1x1 square stock steel risers to meet flush with the floor below on the inners to make up the difference since I used the bench seat mounts which are higher (confused? lol).....ALSO if you have not, I highly suggest doing this.......I cut out 3"x3" square of 3/16" thick flat steel (4 of them) and I welded them into my floor pan on the inner mounting locations (closest to trans tunnel on each side of the floor pan).....reason being , if you have a bench seat car....you do not have these.....and they are worth the peice of mind in security just IN CASE anything were to ever happen...your bolts wont rip out of the floor in an accident , also years of driving may rip through the floor over time.
the FACTORY bucket seat mounting bolt hole locations are a 12" square .....I have mine set at about 16 1/2" from center bolt hole to center bolt hole in width and about 12" from center bolt hole to center bolt hole in length (stock length) but about 2" wider on each side that the factory mounting location.
sorry for rambeling....just figured I would tell you what I have been messing with, I will include some pictures in case it is of any help to you.
HAHAHA.....I am actually in the middle of a bucket seat install in my duster......no kidding....RIGHT NOW (taking a break and cooling off for a minute)
I picked up a set of leather buckets out of an 09 acurra tl type S.
the problem with going to newer seats alot of the time is that they are wider than factory buckets (found out the hard way lol).
I originally had a bench seat.
between the seats being the width that they are and A bodies having an offset trans tunnel by a few inchs ....there is no way I could use the stock bucket seat bolt hole locations (4 dimples on each side of the floor pan)....the drivers side seat would be fine but since the trans tunnel is offset my passenger seat would dang near have to bolt on top of the trans tunnel.
SO what I did to solve this little problem was as follows....
My seats are power and already have tracks on them.
I ended up utilizing the existing bench seat mounting holes (2 bolt holes on the raised humps on each side of the floor pan) and I then welded 1x1 square stock steel risers to meet flush with the floor below on the inners to make up the difference since I used the bench seat mounts which are higher (confused? lol).....ALSO if you have not, I highly suggest doing this.......I cut out 3"x3" square of 3/16" thick flat steel (4 of them) and I welded them into my floor pan on the inner mounting locations (closest to trans tunnel on each side of the floor pan).....reason being , if you have a bench seat car....you do not have these.....and they are worth the peice of mind in security just IN CASE anything were to ever happen...your bolts wont rip out of the floor in an accident , also years of driving may rip through the floor over time.
the FACTORY bucket seat mounting bolt hole locations are a 12" square .....I have mine set at about 16 1/2" from center bolt hole to center bolt hole in width and about 12" from center bolt hole to center bolt hole in length (stock length) but about 2" wider on each side that the factory mounting location.
sorry for rambeling....just figured I would tell you what I have been messing with, I will include some pictures in case it is of any help to you.