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Old 08-24-2017, 07:56 PM   #312
GASoline71
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Re: Out of the Ditch = The Rebuild Begins ('72 GMC)

The seat is in the truck! I installed the fuel line through the floor as well.

But the seat will need to come back out. I wanted to use my original seat brackets/slides from my original seat. The ones that are bolted to the seat that came out of the C25 have a lot of slop in them.

But... as you can see in the pic below... the upholsterer left the brackets bolted to the seat when they hog ringed the lower fabric on to the seat frame. So the fabric and the metal rod that goes through the pocket where the hog rings attach are covering the bolts by about an inch! My original brackets/slides are all cleaned up and painted, so I will pull the seat back out to figure out what I'm going to do to get the rear bolts out of the brackets so I can use my original ones.

Gary
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