Hey folks,

As the title says we've installed a new floor pan o a 69 bug and tried a test fit of the original drivers seat on the new rails. While I can get it on they are binding and not sliding smoothly at all. Also appears that the drivers seat is a fair amount closer to the side (heater channel) than it used to be.

Is it common to have to make some sort of adjustment to the rails?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers Ryan

give them a few taps inwards length of wood and hammer little at a time

Check the floor runners are parallel and dead straight. Any ripple in the runner will cause binding. Check the seat runner isn't kinked anywhere.

Inner floorpan runner is only about 20mm from the tunnel at the front end of the runner. I believe it tapers out from the tunnel towards the rear of the vehicle to angle the seat to the pedals but been a while since I've looked at my stripped pan so could be wrong on the tapering but not how close it sits at the front edge.

Can you put some pics up of the floor pan runner as well as the bottom of the seat guides.I have just cut a 6 volt floor pan for a Buggy and tried to fit some seats from a 12 volt car.they both use a guide and runner set up- but the later seats have a much wider guide, but they bind on the early pan.On the later pans, they had a nylon guide that ran inside the seat guide.I had to cut and shut my seats by fitting the early seat guides to the later seats.

Thanks for the replies fellas, I'll give all that's been suggested a go, just about to fit the headliner and the last thing I need is to be wrestling with stubborn seats and damage anything already done interior wise in anger LOL.

Give me a few days ndturbo and I'll get some pics for you.

Thanks again, I'll update with my impending success story.