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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
This is a great thread and I wanted to add these two illustrations as further points of reference.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Great thread! To add to Tim's illustrations above, here are two more showing the attachment of the factory shoulder belt retainers that mount to the front of the console, if your truck came optioned with both bucket seats and shoulder belts.
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Can someone with buckets in a truck please measure center to center the distance shown in this picture. Or maybe Koop can answer how far he moved his over. Thank you. ![]() |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Adding to this thread
These pics were in that older thread linked on page 1 |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
If anyone that has an original bucket truck can measure the diameter of the screw head with the blue arrows, we can then scale the center to center hole spacing as GM did them.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
I took some pics of my 1972 C30 which has 44,000 miles on it which has factory bucket seats in it. Like this truck and all the trucks that we have seen bucket seats in, none of them used the bolt in the support that runs underneath the floor.
The front bucket mounting just used a square nut welded to the floor. No additional floor support brackets was used except for what was used for the bench seat. I will take some photos of the front mounting and add them later As for the offset on the drives side front holes I found it to be 1 1/4" to the left. See photo. ![]() ![]()
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Thanks for the response Roger. So it looks like 1-1/4" over is where it really should be. I agree that your bracket would fit with no mods if you drill the drivers side outer front bolt hole at 1-1/4" over from the existing bench seat bolt (that's measured center to center).
I used a short drill bit and put a bolt through the z-shaped cab support. Maybe it's not exactly factory, but since the nut's there I thought I'd use it. It would be nice to have a second reference point if anyone else with an original bucket seat truck could measure like Roger did above. |
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Well I think this should finally put the question to rest as to where the drivers side outer front hole should be located.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Just to add a bit more, the truck I looked at had the bolt through the fore/aft floor z-shaped section as you can see in pic 3.
The other pics are of the front mounting nuts from under the truck. Pic 1 is of the inner front drivers side. Pic 2 is of the inner front passenger side. If you don't have the formed z-section reinforcement that runs from side to side (which only comes installed on factory bucket trucks and Blazers), you'll need to fab something up like mcbassin did in his install. The last pic is of the original mounting bolts and a vintage koozie that was under the seat. I hope this helps everyone out and the major parts of this thread would be great to put in the FAQ section. Thanks to mcbassin for starting it and everyone who contributed! ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by 29od1; 02-23-2013 at 05:52 PM. |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
My truck is a 1970 originally equipped w/factory buckets so it already has the holes in the right places. The bad news: factory buckets are long gone. The good news: I have a set of Blazer Sport buckets. Will the Blazer buckets bolt-in directly or will modifications need to be done? Thanks.
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seat..if so what? |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Great info fellas will need this soon. (Subscribed)
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