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[BobDeSoto]

Is the seat back bolted in?

1951 2door Custom

[soth122003]

I don't know about the 51, but my 48 P-15 the seat back for the back seat is hung from a rail at the top of the seat. It is 2 flanges about 6 inches below the top. At the bottom there are 2 flaps? pieces of metal that can be bolted down. On mine I use the seat base to hold the bottom of the seatback in place. 

 

Now to get the seat back off, I pulled the base and checked to see if it was bolted and since it didn't appear to be, I used a long 2x2 to lift up on the bottom of each side and it came of fairly easy. Now going back in required the judicious use of the hand smack at the top to get it seated.

 

Joe Lee

[Ivan_B]

Rear seat? Yes, probably at the bottom. You should see the two screws after you take the bottom cushion out.

[Sniper]

4 minutes ago, Ivan_B said:

after you take the bottom cushion out.

 

Figuring that out was a trick on my 51.  You just grab the front edge of the seat bottom and pull up.  Unlike my later mopars there is no hook there so you do not need to (actually can't) push it in to "unhook" as there are no hooks there.

 

Oh yeah, take out the armrests first, probably the window handles too..

Edited April 28 by Sniper

[BobDeSoto]

So, no access through the trunk?

[Ivan_B]

Well,

1 hour ago, Sniper said:

Oh yeah, take out the armrests first, probably the window handles too..

Good point.

 

57 minutes ago, BobDeSoto said:

So, no access through the trunk?

There is probably a fiberboard panel, separating the trunk and the cabin, still in place