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trouble fitting SPF seat sliders

I was able to successfully swap my passenger seat over to the driver's side while making some modifications to make it sit lower with a nice posterior tilt. Very happy with how that turned out.

I figured it wouldn't be difficult to simply drop the seat pre-fitted with the sliders onto the passenger side, but despite lots of swearing and maneuvering there is NO WAY I can get the tracks to fit into the pre-drilled holes that once housed the other seat. I wouldn't expect this to be too difficult since you can order and install the sliders after the cars are built. In this case, I don't know what else to do.

I'm trying to avoid drilling out larger holes, but I can't even get the studs to drop into the upper carpeted part all together, let alone fit through the lower aluminum panel holes. Is there something I must be missing here??? Any tricks others know of?

Here's my photo of the successfully installed driver's side. For those that are keeping score, I used M8 - 50 size bolts with a couple fender washers and a nut on the back. The original spacers installed up front. Nice improvement in head room and comfort (don't feel like I'm sitting downhill).

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...no/%5BUNSET%5D

In case anybody wishes for an update I finally got my seat installed. A few whacks in carefully calculated areas with a persuasion device and some slight enlargement of one hole eventually did the trick. I immediately gave my daughter a ride after. WooHoo!!!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H...0150311_172309

Great work..................

66gtk,

Need to see some pictures of that beautiful car.

Ted

I am not sure what your goal was to tilt the drivers seat forward or backward?

Tilted back. Made a nice difference. No longer feels like I'm sitting downhill.
More pics as requested:
http://customshowboards.com/spo2256/2256cobra.jpg
http://customshowboards.com/spo2256/2256cobrarear.jpg

Somebody has a 2015 F150......

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Originally Posted by 66gtk (Post 1342691)

So the spacers pictured are stock? Why didn't you tilt the seat with the adjuster on it?

Bill, that would have been the easiest route to take. However, if I wanted to keep the adjusters I would have had to purchase 2 new spacers (I would have left the passenger side alone). By doing so, I would have lost some leg room as the sliders will no longer go back as far (they will hit the floor or rear bulkhead sooner), and I also would have lost headroom that I achieved from dropping the seats closer to the floor instead of further away. I wanted a slider seat on the passenger side to obtain ability to move seat forward and back in order to store various things behind the seat if need be. I have no need to slide forward on the driver's side as I'm nearly 6'3".

Troy - that shined up pretty nice. No doubt everyone will see you coming down the road in it.

Dan