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Originally Posted by GregWeld
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Thanks Greg. It wasn't too bad. I'm sure with you're bank, you wouldn't have even noticed
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Originally Posted by waynieZ
Wow what a haul!! Very Nice and helpful haul at that.
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Yeah it was a nice haul. Too bad the tools are going to sit for a while until I get to use them. Oh well, they will be there waiting for me. How's the Camaro coming along? Have you had a chance to get out to the shop lately?
I made some decent progress on getting the rear seats mounted. It may not seem like much, but it's been time consuming and they are alot closer to being mounted. Well one side anyways. Yes it's been a major PITA, but for some reason I've found it quite enjoyable. I've actually been able to use some of my new tools.
On a side note before I post the pics, for those that are using the new Photobucket and don't like the fact that they took away the easy links, if you go into your settings there is a box you can check off to get the easy links back. I just found it this morning. Now it's like the old one where you can just click on the IMG link and not have to go into each photo to get it.
Onto the updates:
I found my leather was getting quite dirty, so I decided to take it off the seats. It came off very easily. As shown before, the bottom is held on with plastic clips that snap over the round bar. Once all the clips are off, the leather is held on with velcro
First thing I did was add some sheet metal to where the back of the seat will rest. This will give it some more support
Next I realized that when the seat was sitting on the floor, there was a large part of it that had no support underneath it at all. This is due to the way the floor is. You can see under the left side of the skeleton that most of it is sitting in the air
With this, I decided to make the floor more level. I built a new section to raise the floor out of 16 gauge sheet metal. I also found out that an Ingersol Rand air sheer is not designed to cut 16 gauge.....gotta buy a new one now
Here's the new section
This pic gives a good idea as to what I was talking about with the floor being unlevel
I also added a brace in the center of the new section
It sits on the floor a lot better now. I've also had to modify a few sections of the skeleton to make it sit better. I didn't take pics of all the modifications as it would be different from car to car.
I decided to use round bar to make front mounts instead of the sheetmetal ones that I had made. I will add some rear support bars to these later.
