Re: Wes's Maroon 1947 Custom Super Clipper

Posted by HH56 On 2020/7/16 17:02:23

It comes out relatively easy but is fairly heavy and wants to tip backwards due to the heavy somewhat off center back frame. Depending on which side you remove it from you will need to watch and lift it over the heater so the center braces or the drivers side track does not scrape and catch on the heater as you wrestle it out the door.

Disconnect the two wires for the lights and cigar lighter at the inline connectors that can be located under the carpet anywhere between the center pillar and drivers seat rear corner. Also remove any clamps that might be holding the wires on the seat side of the connectors to the floor. There is a spring between a tab on the tunnel and a hole in the center brace that comes out easier if the seat is all the way forward. Seat is probably held by bolts on each side that thread into weld nuts on a reinforcing plate fastened to the floor under the car. Can't remember the exact number but at least two on the front and back of each track. On mine some of the bolts had broken at some point so the capture nuts had been drilled out. There was a nut and lockwasher on the bottom to contend with at those spots.

Tp avoid possibly the same issue, the bolts on yours could probably stand a day or two of PB Blaster before removal. There will probably be some cardboard and maybe even plywood shims between the track bottoms and floor at each pair of stud locations. You might want to take note of which ones and how many are at each spot.