I am in the process of replacing the front floor pans. The originals were rotted through and the bolts almost completely gone ( I bought it this way unknowingly). The new replacement pans from LMC have no location to bolt the seats to. Is there something that was below the pan that I was supposed to salvage? Do I just drill holes and bolt the seats to the new pans? Please help!

Steve

 

put your seats where they are supposed to go , mark and drill your holes and I would weld a nut on the underside of the pan like it came from the factory if it were me.

 

The factory pans had nuts welded to larger reinforcements that were then welded to the floor. These can be made by taking some heavier steel (2" wide by 4" long or so 1/4" steel), drilling the holes and then welding on the nuts. I would drill the holes through everything and bolt the seats in, then weld everything in place.

 

Thank you for the information/advice! I was nervous I had cut something off I wasn't supposed to. Hopefully this will be completed this weekend and I can move on to getting the engine running. Thanks again!

 

X2. I've made the mistake of not reinforcing the floor pans when I bolted the seats down, and the nuts started tearing through the pans a couple months later. It's not so much an issue of pan thickness, rather more that you want to spread the load out over a large area. That said, 1/4" plate is pretty cheap in small amounts like that, and it never hurts to go thicker.

 

If you don't find hole there you need to drill it and if you are not satisfied with it just go to the mechanics who will help you to do so....