Good morning Mossberg Owners.
The seat mounting turned out to be a big pita. There should have been 2 left hand seat rails and 2 rights. There were, evidently, only 4 lefts originallly supplied.
They were used anyhow, which threw off the hole patterns on the floor. That threw the driver’s seat in a tilt, as the incorrect seat rail landed on a raised corner in the pan.
Each seat also had one rail upside down. They are not symmetrical. This caused the seats to turn slightly, dislocating the bolt holes. Finally, when the seat tracks were bolted to the seat frames they were not located parallel and square to each other, plus the driver seat frame has been sat on by a gorilla, and it was slightly bent. (I straightened that out quite easily.
In both cases the seats ended up contacting the doors: one leaning out, hitting the seat back at the door latch, and one rotating slightly out of position to do the same.
I have already done a lot of fussing around to get these seats aligned in the car, but there are no floor mats or carpets yet, & I still need to do some bodywork to close the gaps at the edge of the floor pan along the doors.
So today I will get out the torch and start bending some steel to fit the curve in the body. This will be the last mod before I title the car.
I’m not happy at all with the fuel line situation and I’m going to change the tank as well, but I think this will just have to wait Until after Christmas. I don’t really need the car to be operational unless the weather is really nice like it was yesterday.
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