I am converting to bucket seats and was searching and do I need floor support brackets ? If so is this something I can just fab up myself , I assume there welded to floor pan inside
72 bucket seat floor supports
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Fabbing them is pretty straight forward. Here's what they look like on my AMD replacement floor. Outboard bolts go through the existing floor supports (not sure if same place as a bench), and the inboard bolts go through the added plates. I think the plates are about 1/8 thick.
Picture is dark is only on the rear of two bolts per seat ?
Never mind I blew up picture and see its both on inner side , thanks again
You can buy them from AMD but they are simple to make up. Last ones I installed I ended up making some because the holes in the AMD ones were off.
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
I made mine too. Ask someone to measure them I forget what size they were .
Yeah I will make some verses spending $50 from AMD as well ,, I have the metal to make them,,thanks
The bucket outside holes are not the ones for a bench seat! look under the car and you will see a second set of holes in the brace inboard of the bench seat holes, but not through the floor - drilll through them. The inboard holes show up as dimples in the floor pan - just drill through those. I never understood why the outside brace is under the floor pan (which makes sense) but the inboard plates are above the floor pan (no sense). Suggest you use some big *** washers on the inboard studs, UNDER the floor pan. You need rubber plugs for the bench seat holes (RT Specialties has them).
I will check into that as someone installed some weird bucket seats but unsure if done right , so I will check the holes with the set I have now , and the brace on top can give support but agree may be underneath would have been better , I may make something underneath like on the ebody cars as my challenger is different than the Duster in mounting
I know they are welded, but any thoughts on using body panel bond adhesive for the plates? The idea behind the plates are to spread the forces out over a larger area, and I'm thinking that this may be a case where using panel bond may actually be better given the direction of forces and surface area contact.
No reason why that wouldn't work.
Cuda Al
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This might help...
Alan
Alan
Bonding will work , but when I weld something like this I do the edges but would also drill a couple extra holes towards center and weld in like spot welding to give better support , plus I plan on adding support on the bottom as well
The big deal with reinforcements is what happens in a wreck. The last thing you want is for the anchors for the seat to rip loose through the floor pan, thus my concern about reinforcements on top of the floor pan and held in place by 4 little welds. 72dustervs has a great plan!
is RT specialties a shop or a user?
Cuda Al
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I put mine on the bottom of the car. Made more sense to me.
I am putting on both sides , since top was designed for the space should keep seat more level plus what the heck it will be stronger
Wont hurt anything, studs are plenty long enough.
If you are in a bad wreck you don't want that bucket seat and you flying thru the windshield and beyond because those nuts on those bolts holding the seats down went thru that thin 18 ga. floor sheet. I make mine and weld them down. But I have been hit head on by an 85 mph drunk in a 65 Lincoln. Dunno he might have been doing 90. He was fast.....he ain't fast no more and hasn't been fast since 1975 was it. Drunk SOB.
rr4406pak
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So bucket seats do not share any of the bench seat holes?
If this is the case, why not reinforce the outside bucket holes as well as the inside ones?
If this is the case, why not reinforce the outside bucket holes as well as the inside ones?
The outside holes have support on the bottom side. The same support bracket for the bench has an extra set of holes. Just drill them out then plug the other ones.
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