Today , I went and picked up the Explorer seats. Next I started to fab up the mounting bracket for them 1" square tubing 1/8" thick. I got 24 feet of it for 30.02 I then helped my frined put together a new band saw to cut it with. It was from harbor tools for 150.00 and worked great. I will get one soon. It took us all day because a Mark from corporate decided today was the day to visit Massillon. I always go in when he comes. He is a great guy, and I think you show respect by making sure you are there when he comes. I spent a little over an hour with him. Everything was fine.

Then back to it. We started to weld all the pcs together. We made the bottom part of 49 willards base, then made two brackets to attach to the explorer seats, and then made the top part to mount the seat brackets to. I wanted to keep the seats on their slides to move back and forth. I am only 5'6" so I did not want to limit is to us vertically challenged. Next I went to the hardware store to buy a tap set to tap my bolts for the seats. The pickings were slim but finally found ones I thought would work I will take Jim Hackney's advice and buy a complete set at Harbor Tools tomorrow. I will now put in the carpet on the floor and then mount my base them put the seats on. I will need to figure out seat belts next.

I painted the base black so it will be ready to go when the carpet is down. I also rough cut the carpet so I can get a good jump on it tomorrow. Doesn't seem like alot of work completed, but I am a rookie welder so I took my time.

I am done for tonight, but will start by 10.00 am after I put in bills and sales at restaurant. I will post some pics tomorrow to 49 willard can see how I set it up.

 

Boy, yer movin right along! I pulled the engine, tranny, &tcase outta the '83, and rolled the remnants outside. Tomorrow I'll clean up the mess.