Can I modify the seat adjusters to go farther back?

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timk225

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I haven't had an A body in 20 years, and in that time, I hate to say I'm up about 80 pounds. I only mention this because the interior of my 1973 Duster with bench seat seems smaller for some reason. I sure could use the seat being able to go back another 2 inches or so. Can the seat slider rails be easily modified to allow this?
 
Remove the seat from the vehicle, unbolt the tracks from the seat, use 1/4" x 1.25" flat bar, use counter sunk 5/16-18 bolts to attach the flat bar to the seat where the stock track bolt holes are, relocate the holes on the flat bar 2" forward...

Bolts to secure flat bar to seat and track McMaster-Carr
 
I was looking at some seats I just bought.

The posts are swedged into the slide.

I noticed that there are 2 holes around each post. One in front and one behind.

It looks like one could relocate the posts to the forward most holes and gain an inch or inch and a half without adding parts
 
72bluNblu said:
Good grief! $43 for a piece of flat stock with a couple holes and a set of threads? And that's before you ship it!
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Yeah well.....that's all I could find for an example. I got mine off ebay for under 20 shipped, but I couldn't find those.
 
I mounted my RX7 seats on hardwood sticks, which elevated them enough to where I liked them to be, then I set the recline by washering up the front , then I moved them back to where my clutch foot was happy, then I installed a small-diameter low-dish, fat-rimmed, aftermarket steering wheel, to get it off mabelly.
I mean that stock steering wheel was hopelessly huge.
and the RX7 seats were hoplessly low.
and the end-result was fabulous.
 
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