70 cuda front bucket seats

[badfish107]

hi, my 70 cuda front buckets as your standing in front of the car,looking through the windshield,both seat backs lean inwards towards each other. is this normal or am I missing something?

[swede-cuda]

my 70 toooo

[70chall440]

Unfortunately not overly uncommon, years of use and people slamming into them bend the frames or bases. I have seen some ebodies with the inside base (the part that bolts to the floor) shimmed with spacers to level them out.

[Beekeeper]

I'm doing metal work on my 70 Challenger and I was surprised to see that the floor boards really don't have much in the way of support underneath. The only support the get cross ways is the transmission cross member. Aside from that, the floor rests on the rockers and a few small side supports. There's a little added strength where it's welded to the back floor pans but that's not much. It doesn't surprise me to hear that the center area near the hump would sag over time. Especially if you have heavy people dropping themselves into the car.

If your not wanting to do any kind of floor work and you don't like the US Car tools sub frame connectors, I think shims on the inside seat tracks are really the only fix.

[70chall440]

You really need to inspect the seats and perhaps the floor. I would wager you will an issue with the frame or the bottom brackets before you will find the floor sagging. Just look to see if the seat back is square to your seat bottoms; if it is fold the seat back forward and look underneath behind the seat and see if the mounting brackets appear leaning inward. If everything looks straight and square then there is some other issue. Guess we should have started off with whether the seats are original to the car or not; could be a potential issue as well.

Regardless, if the seats and brackets are square, then a couple of spacers on the inboard 2 bolts for each seat will correct it.