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Old 10-10-2008, 07:09 PM   #21
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Re: Changing to Bucket seats

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Originally Posted by 68shortstep View Post
It would seem to me that you'd need a re-inforcing-plate UNDER the floor for the bolts at the back of the seat, and another plate ON TOP OF the floor at the front bolts, to keep the front-loading torque from punching the front of the seats downward thru the (old, rusty & weakened) floor, & landing your face on the steering wheel (or the dash, if you were a passenger) regardless of being seat-belted into the seat.

Either way, I wouldn't want to be involved in a wreck bad enough to need the floor re-inforcing plates ......

But: Hope for the best & plan for the worst.
The feet of the seats have a pretty large area, so I don't think a plate on top of the floor will be necessary.
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