Jim, folks,
Here is a picture of the product to enhance adhesion.
Yesterday was busy with Comet items.
Adam and John and I spent several hours cleaning fasteners and getting the seats in the Comet.
Very happy with the way the seats turned out. yep some problems came up of course.
Set the rails in the car, no more spacer blocks. Except for the factory ones in the rear inside corners.
Checking out the seat control handle location. It was out there a little too far.
Decided to just bend the handle much more vertical. This seems like it will work fine. Out of the way and can be bent back if the car needs to be changed back to stock seat positions,
Used short pieces of all thread with jamb nuts against the seat frames, to set down through the holes in the floor.
Testing the drivers seat fit and position with the rails attached:
Since the seats are back 3 inches this shows the rear of the console, so improving that while the seats were out was the right thing to do:
It was a lot easier to enter and exit the car with the seat rear ward the additional 3 inches!
Got the arm rest prepped and repainted. I stripped the old paint off and let it dry a couple days then used scotch bright to scruff the surface then a coat of the adhesion promoter, let that dry, another coat, let the second coat dry. Then a couple light coats of the white color.
My head is about 1 inch from the headliner. So putting these seats back on the floor was the right thing to do, with the new thicker stiffer foam:
A tip of the hat to Dave's Upholstery shop in Albion PA, he made these look and feel good again. He did have to modify, reshape the foam on the seat base front edge. Came out very nice for old covers.
Seats all the way back and reclined a little, No leg room for anyone in the back for sure:
Had to make new seat rail slide blocks from plastic for the passenger seat rail, they fell out or lost them.
I am going to add a mirror to the passengers side. It seems that it needs to be moved back about 1.5 inches to be able to be viewed, and or useful to the driver?? Is the mirror supposed to be mounted in the same position as the drivers side? If so the mirror is for looks only as the A pillar blocks most of the view.
I had to rebuild the mirror assembly as the mirror would not move. Thread was stripped in the assembly. Got it corrected now ready to mount. Only want to drill holes in the door once!
