So I'm swapping seats in my '89 from a bench to a 40/60 split and I want to hear what y'all think the best way to go about putting holes in the floor is. I was thinking drilling them and using the proper size carrige bolt with a larger washer on the bottom with a nylock nut on the nee holes, and reusing the factory holes where I can.
You guys know more than me on this subject, so how would you go about this mod?
Do not use carriage bolts. Carriage bolts are uncertifiable hardware because they are made from scrap metal.
They have no shear strength and they have unknowable tensile strength.
Do not use stainless bolts.
There are certain applications for stainless bolts but none of them involve cars.
Believe it or not! Stainless bolts are weak and have terrible shear and not much tensile strength.
Use regular old grade 8 bolts with hardended washers and an A36 backing plate that spreads the load under the floor pan and hopefully is tied into some type of structure.
If you want us old guys to stop yelling and if you give a flying **** about us going bald from pulling our hair out you will stop cease and decist from using fence hardware to bolt your seats in.
You will also stop ripping all of your vacuum lines loose and trying to plug them with drywall screws
You shall not unbolt the kickdown linkage and throw it in the bed of the truck and then randomly turn every screw on the carb and then wonder why it wont shift.
Though shall not ever bolt an 850 cfm demon carb onto a bone stock 180,000 mile 8.5 to 1 small block smogger and ***** about it running like poop.
And if you have any normal common sense you would know that those two big bolts you had leftover after installing the roll cage were for the rear seat belts.
And not get all shocked when your ex wife and her friend hit their heads on the roll bar in ******* nowhere Mexico and it sounded like two hollow coconut bongo drums.
Doonk! Dookk!
So they both had concussions and I decided that I needed to get them out of Mexico and at least back to Ajo Arizona where there was a small clinic.
So, down the road I go at about 70 or so.
My exes freind is in the passenger seat because she seems to be seeing more chirping birds than my ex is seeing.
so im hauling ass down the highway but she is doing this little wierd dance in the passenger seat and making this kindoff eek eek eek! noise.
I thought it was brain damage so I drove faster.
Finally this ding asked me if it was normal for hot water to spray on her legs while I was driving.
Concussion, and heater core burns.
I also didnt know that I was smuggling a dog into the US.
That is a whole nother story.