Bench seat too close to wheel

[ruffcut]

Hi members
My seat is all the way back on the tracks and still too close to the steering wheel for me.
I have an idea how to move it back but am curious if anyone has done this and how it was done.
My seat tracks were powder coated when I got the car and the studs were missing, so I used carriage bolts to install.
I'm thinking just make some pieces with studs to bolt to the tracks and holes further forward in them to bolt to the floor, if you get what I'm saying.
Thanks in advance.
If you have a better idea, I'm open to suggestions
Dave

 

[dadsbee]

3 location choices in the rails. What are you 6' 8?

 

[ruffcut]

I'm bolted in the front holes of the tracks

 

[kiwigtx]

My seat is all the way back on the tracks and still too close to the steering wheel for me.

I have that problem also......mostly I just need to lose some weight.

Next fix will be to install a smaller diameter steering wheel.

 

[khryslerkid]

I'm 5'7" and I have the seat all the way back. Average person was a bit short back in the day.

 

[kiwigtx]

I'm 5'7" and I have the seat all the way back. Average person was a bit short back in the day.

I'm a smidge over 6'3" and I know for a fact back in the '60's that the A100's were designed around guys a lot shorter and less rotund than they are these days.

Same applies to most other cars.

 

[dadsbee]

I'm 5'10 and the Bee bench seat has always been in the factory center holes. Works perfectly for me..

 

[Dave6T4]

You can buy seat track extenders from Summit or Jegs. They move your seat back 2" . Kind of what Dave was mentioning at bottom of Post#1. Way easier than losing weight. LOL.
I am a big guy, 6'2" too, and also installed an aftermarket 14" steering wheel. Car is much more comfortable to drive now.

 

[Richard Cranium]

3 location choices in the rails. What are you 6' 8?

 

[chargervert]

Time to lose the thirty pack abs!

 

[ruffcut]

Time to lose the thirty pack abs!

My knees are too close to the steering wheel and I have my arms bent too much as well.

 

[eldubb440]

I'm bolted in the front holes of the tracks

how do you know you have the right hole?



.......she can't say anything

 

[kiwigtx]

Time to lose the thirty pack abs!

...or the 'one-pack'

 

[gdrill]

Belly button too far from back bone?

 

[j-c-c-62]

To the OP, it's rare that typical carriage bolts are rated Grade 5 or higher.
Don't forget a well secured seat belt keeps the driver pinned against the seat, meaning the seat needs to be secured with equal if not more consideration in all directions for a seat belt to do its intended task.

 

[Hey-O]

Hi members
My seat is all the way back on the tracks and still too close to the steering wheel for me.
I have an idea how to move it back but am curious if anyone has done this and how it was done.
My seat tracks were powder coated when I got the car and the studs were missing, so I used carriage bolts to install.
I'm thinking just make some pieces with studs to bolt to the tracks and holes further forward in them to bolt to the floor, if you get what I'm saying.
Thanks in advance.
If you have a better idea, I'm open to suggestions
Dave

This is what I used, relocation kit.

 

[YY1]

What car is this?

On 71-74, the sliders that hold the cylindrical bearings are longer on one side than the other.
If they've been apart, it's possible they were put back on incorrectly.
If so, you will lose about 1.75 inches of front to back space.
That was just enough for me to go from perfectly comfortable with the seat all the way back, to not quite enough room.

 

[Dennis H]

Sport Wheel?

 

[Dave6T4]

This is what I used, relocation kit.

View attachment 1717786

Me, too.

 

[Budnicks]

...or the 'one-pack'

Or a Keg...