[Midlife]

When I tore Midlife apart 5 years ago, I found some seat shims between the carpet and the lower frames. When I reassembled the car, I couldn't find anything in my reference materials showing the shims, so I figured that the PO did something funky.

However, I recently noticed that NPD sells exactly these seat shims (page 7, item 013190), both concours correct and repro. They call them mounting plate, seat track. I went back again to the Osborne Assembly Manuals and the Illustrated Guides (both 65 and 66) and still don't see these things.

What gives? How important are they?

 

[napaguy]

I know when I tore down my 66 it had them. I am 98% confident that the seats had never been out or messed with.

 

[Laurie_S]

My coupe has them, and I put them in my fastback, too.

 

[Guest]

All 65-67 Mustangs had them. Sometime in '68 Ford went to a seat track with them made into the tracks.

 

[Laurie_S]

It must have been very late in 1968, because my coupe was built June 2, and it has the shims.

 

[Midlife]

OK, if they are to be installed, does the curved end curve up and beyond the tracks, I presume?

What problem, if any, will I have if I leave the shims out?

 

[Laurie_S]

The curved end is at the front, and it curves down toward the carpet.

 

[obsidianspider]

Mid, on my '66 they were the same way Laurie described them.

 

[Guest]

They help the seat movement by keeping it up away from the carpet so the tracks won't bind on the material.

 

[Jeff_Speegle]

It was a very early running change (not sure how many got built without them :0 ) But the nap on the carpet gets pulled when the seat is adjusted

 

[yelostang]

I got some bell shaped "seat elevators" that sllegedly came out of a Cougar. Looks like they would raise the seat 1". Corresponding longer length bolts would be in order

 

[shelby1969]

On the 66 cars , do both front seats get 4 shims each ?

 

[myfirstcar66]

On the 66 cars , do both front seats get 4 shims each ?

Old thread, but yes, total of 8.