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Offline 72cudamaan

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Re: Spacers to raise seat height on side ?
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2014 - 07:39:30 PM »
When I took out my seats to replace the carpet I found spacers made out of what looked to be plastic about 3/8" tall and 1 3/4" diameter if that helps? They were cracked so I turned up new ones in aluminum. Hope that helps? :wave:

Those sound like the stock spacers
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Re: Spacers to raise seat height on side ?
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2014 - 03:56:19 PM »
:canada:

Mine were between the track and the carpet.

I guess I'm the third guy to confirm this. You definitely need some kind of spacers on the inside studs, otherwise you are tilting towards the console.

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Re: Spacers to raise seat height on side ?
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2014 - 04:05:43 PM »
No E Body that I've ever worked on left the factory with spacers between the seat and the floor pan.
I've never heard of a case where they were installed by the factory.
Could be a 1970 only thing, I haven't worked on too many 70's. :2cents:
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Re: Spacers to raise seat height on side ?
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2014 - 04:11:07 PM »
No E Body that I've ever worked on left the factory with spacers between the seat and the floor pan.
I've never heard of a case where they were installed by the factory.
Could be a 1970 only thing, I haven't worked on too many 70's. :2cents:

Trust me, they are needed.  After about 50miles or so my back is starting to hurt from sitting so cockeyed. But I have no idea if they were something the factory installed or if its a common problem because there is a lot of spacers made to correct it.

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Re: Spacers to raise seat height on side ?
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2014 - 09:28:22 PM »
Trust me, they are needed. 


I've restored 19 E Bodies to date, and parted out dozens more. NEVER had to install them in an E Body. :dunno:
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