front seat mounting question

[lsukevinc]

I just finished recovering a set of factory front bucket seats. The factory frames had no mounts/slides included. I removed the aftermarket seats that came with the bronco and removed the slides and mounts for re use on the factory seats. On the driver's side, I was able to drill and adjust the mounts and adapt it to match the factory holes in the floor pans. On the passenger side, I will not be able to move the mounts/slides so I am off by 2" on one side. I really don't want to drill 2 additional holes in my floor pans.

What do you suggest? I was thinking about welding a small piece of plate to the base of the passenger seat and drilling a hole in the new plate to match up with the existing holes. Or so I just suck it up and drill 2 new holes?

 

[DaveLev]

Weld plate to base if you can do it and make your passenger seat not lopsided (one side higher than the other). Good luck!

 

[Steve83]

Chair mounting is more complicated than just holes in the floor. The chairs are part of the restraint system, and the weight of an adult bobbing around can rip the chairs out of the sheet metal even without the stresses of off-roading & collision. Even Ford had problems with it:



So put some thought into how those loads will be spread through the body, and check by pushing & pulling on the chair to see how much it stretches the floor.

 

[lsukevinc]

Chair mounting is more complicated than just holes in the floor. The chairs are part of the restraint system, and the weight of an adult bobbing around can rip the chairs out of the sheet metal even without the stresses of off-roading & collision. Even Ford had problems with it:



So put some thought into how those loads will be spread through the body, and check by pushing & pulling on the chair to see how much it stretches the floor.

thanks for this and all your other diagrams Steve. The existing holes seem to be in the factory locations which have the "hat channel" reinforcing. I'll plan to weld a tab from the seat to the existing holes to make sure they are reinforced.

 

[thegreatjustino]

If you're using factory seats, just buy a set of factory brackets from one of the vendors.

Tom's sells brand new ones for both sides