I'm almost scared to ask this..

[mach1972]

I am planning on installing a carpet and upholstry kit in my 72 soon and decided to kind of look things over tonight.

I was looking at the bolts that hold the seats down since I will have to remove them and didn't notice any nuts holding them from under the car. I looked on both sides and it's the same thing, my first thought was the po did a quick fix on the floor pans and just welded some in over the old ones but it seriously doesn't look like a hack job. Both pans are identical, maybe the undercoating is hiding the bolt heads?

Am I stupid or is there something to this?

Thanks,
Josh

 

[65fsbkhipo]

I am planning on installing a carpet and upholstry kit in my 72 soon and decided to kind of look things over tonight.

I was looking at the bolts that hold the seats down since I will have to remove them and didn't notice any nuts holding them from under the car. I looked on both sides and it's the same thing, my first thought was the po did a quick fix on the floor pans and just welded some in over the old ones but it seriously doesn't look like a hack job. Both pans are identical, maybe the undercoating is hiding the bolt heads?

Am I stupid or is there something to this?

Thanks,
Josh

Not stupid...you knew where to look for the nuts. Take a few less sips off that Bud Truck! Ask yourself...is there undercoating there or is it just dirty? Then look again.

 

[mach1972]

There is absolutely nothing coming through the underside on any of the four bolts. I am getting a bad feeling about this.

 

[67coupe351w]

Pull the rubber plugs out of the floor pans, the seat is bolted to the seat riser, the nuts are up inside the floor.

 

[mach1972]

Pull the rubber plugs out of the floor pans, the seat is bolted to the seat riser, the nuts are up inside the floor.

I sincerely thank you, I'll sleep easier tonight knowing that! Thought I might have a po horror story on my hands here.

 

[mustangman70]

Yeh you wont see them by just loooking or glancing, you basicly have to put a socket with an extension through the floorboard to get to the nuts.....1/2 inch maybe you will see some rubber "plugs" you have to take off to get acc4s like mentioned above

 

[2nd Mustang]

Please becareful when removing those nuts. The space where the nuts are can become an abyss!

 

[Edbert]

LOL...yeah....drop the nut into that abyss and you'll have a rattlestang on your hands for many years to come

 

[mustangman70]

Lol

 

[cougar694u]

LOL...yeah....drop the nut into that abyss and you'll have a rattlestang on your hands for many years to come

I dropped a nut in the abyss of my cougar. It appears randomly, you can hear it roll from one point to another, but if you try to get it, it disappears...

 

[allcarfan]

I dropped a nut in the abyss of my cougar. It appears randomly, you can hear it roll from one point to another, but if you try to get it, it disappears...

Use a heavy duty magnet to slid it to the hole

 

[limey66]

shoot cavity wax into the abyss, that'll glue the sucker in place.

 

[Platonic Solid]

I am planning on installing a carpet and upholstry kit in my 72 soon and decided to kind of look things over tonight.

I was looking at the bolts that hold the seats down since I will have to remove them and didn't notice any nuts holding them from under the car. I looked on both sides and it's the same thing, my first thought was the po did a quick fix on the floor pans and just welded some in over the old ones but it seriously doesn't look like a hack job. Both pans are identical, maybe the undercoating is hiding the bolt heads?

Am I stupid or is there something to this?

Thanks,
Josh

71-73 Mustangs have no rubber plugs in the floor pan under the seat bolts, thus there are no nex nuts to put a socket on. The seat is held on to the seat riser via "cage nuts". My 72s have 3 cage nuts and 1 weld stud in the seat riser, thus you are removing 3 bolts and 1 nut which should all be visible and removable from the car interior.

 

[67coupe351w]

Please becareful when removing those nuts.

Sorry, I couldnt help myself