How Do You Raise/Move A Car Seat To Add Leg Room?
Should be simple since car upholstery shops remove seats all the time on every car made. But basic idea is to remove the bolts holding the seat to the car frame and add washers to make the seat higher than existing controls allow. Maybe will need new bolts of same thread if the old bolts are too short. To move the seat back further than the old seat is able to move, get 4 4 inch bars with two holes each. One hole is for the existing bolt and frame hole, the other hole is to bolt the seat so it can go back a few inches. • Remove driver seat. • Buy 4 new bolts an inch longer than old bolts. • Buy 4 inches of washers of same diameter as old bolts. • Slide an inch of washers onto each bolt and reattach seat. • This should raise the seat an inch. To add height AND move seat to the rear. • Buy 4 pieces of steel and get a machine shop to drill two holes the same size as the exiting seat bolts. • Buy 4 bolts the same length as the existing bolts since the steel rod will do the same thing as th
