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Seat pan question? - 10/10/2007 10:17:11 AM

109jb

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I have a 70 fastback that I am working on. This car was/is in real bad shape, and I am right now replacing the floor pans and seat bases. Before I removed the floors and seat bases, I leveled the car and took careful measurements of the location of the seat bases where they were when I got the car. the problem is that some hack before me did a half baked job on both sides and I don't have much confidence in how he located them. As I got them the seat bases were not level from side to side. The outside ends of the seat bases are lower than the side toward the driveshaft tunnel. Seems to me that they should be level or the seats would lean outward. Am I right, or are the bases supposed to lean outward??

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John B.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/10/2007 11:33:14 AM

RolandT3Speed

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Here's some shots of my '67 which is basically the same as the 70.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/10/2007 11:57:53 AM

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Thanks, but I can't tell from your picture if the seat bases are dead level from side to side. I know how they go in. My only question is are they indeed supposed to be dead level from side to side. I would think they are, but mine weren't before I removed them.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/10/2007 12:19:06 PM

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Check your seats. Do they sit level side to side on a flat surface?

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/10/2007 1:08:39 PM

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My seats are pretty bad but appear to sit level on the garage floor. I guess I'll put the seat pans in level and if the seats don't sit straight I can just shim them so they sit level.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/17/2007 11:26:55 PM

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It's poss. the hack may have tried this seat lowering to give more room under the sterring wheel and just not gotten the placement right going back in. If I remember right, my seat pans are level in my '69.

http://www2.mustangsplus.com/catalog/articles_seat_pans.pdf

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/18/2007 6:53:43 PM

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I don't know what hack you are talking about. Those seat boxes look factory. They are painted the color of the car, as they should be and don't appear to have been cut loose before. Are you putting in a one piece floor? I would recommend just putting in the short floor pans if they are needed.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 10/19/2007 11:05:42 AM

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DanK69RustangVert, Thanks. The previous hack didn't shorten the seat boxes because they still have what is left of the factory flanges. I think he just got the floor pan in crooked which I have corrected.

67t5ponycoupe, You are not looking at pictures of my car which is the one I started this post about. I never posted any pictures of my car. The pictures in this thread were in reply to my original post. My car definately needed complete floors from front to back and the seat bases had definately been removed at some time in the past. The hack that did it bought full pans which he hacked up and pop-riveted in. He used some kind of 3/16" steel pop rivets for most of it. He had to remove the seat bases to do this and he re-installed those with more of those giant pop rivets and some smaller ones. That's what I'm dealing with. Luckily, this looks like the only area of the car that was ever worked on before I got it.

John B.

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RE: Seat pan question? - 11/2/2007 9:05:45 AM

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Well, I got the floor pans and seat bases in. I put them in level and I think they turned out pretty well. Thank you all for the help.

Here is a look at them.

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