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Old 10-21-2015, 12:25 PM   #1
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behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

I,m wanting to try and build a full length speaker and amp box behind the seat of a 78 truck but was wondering how to go about mounting it behind the seat without drilling a bunch of holes in the cab for screws.Any other suggestions would be nice,is my first attempt at this.
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:46 PM   #2
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Re: behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

I,m not looking for big subs or nothing just a simple sub and a couple speakers
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Old 10-21-2015, 02:04 PM   #3
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Re: behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

I am doing the same thing in my '68. My truck had the tank behind the seat so now I have a bunch of threaded places where my tank was bolted, I am going to use those. Same thing on the bottom side. Look in the pic, when I put the top and front on the box, I was going to screw "L" brackets to the top of the box and to the threaded bosses.


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Old 10-22-2015, 09:49 AM   #4
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A little more progress today.


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Old 10-22-2015, 04:33 PM   #5
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Re: behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

speakers behind the seat are usually marginal in sound, so proceed with caution

you'll need to fasten anything down, so plan on a few holes in the floor
i made a fiberglass enclosure to hold 2 amps, one 10'' sub and my battery behind the seat of my 58 truk

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Old 01-29-2016, 10:30 PM   #6
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Re: behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

Here's one I just built for my 84 Sierra. I kept the screw holes to a minimum by making the enclosure a tight fight. The corner boxes only have one screw holding them in place. I used a long screw and drilled down at an angle to force the enclosure tightly in the corner. I used the same principal with the storage box. It has one screw in each corner and its extremely tight.

Unfortunately the P/O drilled a row of holes to mount a tool pouch above the enclosure I built. I used some button head screws to fill the holes, then painted them white to match the cab.

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Re: behind seat sub box mouting ideas needed

I am going to be going through this soon so I'll be following this for some ideas.
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Old 02-03-2016, 09:20 PM   #8
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I used the old gas tank mounts for mine. I also bought the cab corner mounts too!




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