sometime in the not too distant past... 'someone' posted a picture of the frames/mounts they made for bucket seats that went elsewhere with a hard disk crash...

so now that the cab is back upright I'm starting to play in the cab...

show me your bucket seat mounts please... I'm not finding what I want with a search

tia

john

 

Here's the one I made for my buckets John. More pics in my build thread.

 

Some thing like this ? Made them out of 1" sq. ash first then made some adjustments then made the final frames out of 1 ' sq. 1/8 wall steel .John , will be in B-ham next week . Send me a PM w/ your ph. # & I will call you while there & maybe meet . Later , Denny

 

Here's mine for my power captains chairs:
note carpet is covering back crossmember I can see if I have a clearer shot without carpet if you want it.

 

Here are the mounts I made for the VW Passat seats I am using. I had a little bit more to accomplish with these mounts since the seat rails had no lower slide apparatus. Passat/Audi seats are very well built and unusually inexpensive because most people cut out a floor section to get the lower slides...these work much better.

 

Here are some pictures of mount that I made up for my Honda Odessey second row seats. These seat were removable and I wanted to keep that feature so getting under the dash would be somewhat easier.

 

 

jrock, wouldn't it had been a little bit easier if you would have welded nuts to the frame and run the bolts up through the floor into the welded nuts this way you would never have to use 2 wrenches also you could do the same with the seat frame,only reverse it put the welded nuts on the bottom and the bolt goes through the top

 

Are you saying put the bolt up through the bottom? But then wouldn't I have a bunch of threads showing? If I am understanding you correctly

 

all these look good but what about reinforcement under the floor if needed,
any pic's

 

Roy... BY ALL MEANS... reinforcement plates are needed under the floor... in an accident the bolts would pull thru that thin floor in a heart beat. I'd use 3/16 plate a minimum of 4" x 4" or larger if you want... the larger area you cover... the better the protection from pull thru.

 

I'd use seat belt reinforcing "washers", which are large round washers (2" dia. ?) with smooth edges that won't cut the floor steel if really yanked on. They usually have dimples too.

 

And if possible bend the edges away from the floor - Same thing for seatbelt floor mounts

 

on both of my cabs the seat had punched a hole in the floor at the driver side and the rt side, and the seat track was broken in at least 2support points on each track where the seat base bolts to the track.
so I'm thinking over build the floor(as compared to stock) as well as the seat base and seatbelt brackets

 

dont make the bolts to long & you are going to put carpet over them too