86 mustang gt seats

therieldeal · Nov 24, 2008

so i grabbed some halo headrest mustang seats from craigslist to throw in my 89 single cab. tossed the drivers seat in today... then noticed that it doesnt latch in the upright position. neither does the passenger side (wtf?). anyone know if these seatback mechanisms tend to fail or something?

OldJunk · Nov 24, 2008

The are meant to fold forward to allow rear seat passengers access. the ones in my wifes 5.0 have never latched.

therieldeal · Nov 25, 2008

i understand that they need to fold forward... ive owned several 2 door cars in my day but never a mustang. every car ive had the seats latch upright, and then you pull the lever and they unlatch and fold down. if they just dont latch thats fine... just a little odd lol.

oddly the mustang seats seem to sit higher than the stock seats. i'm not sure if i like it or not.

240cubes · Nov 25, 2008

all foxbody seats are junk
ive delt with that too many times

OldJunk · Nov 25, 2008

There is some sort of passive inertia lock on the passenger side seat that keeps it from flopping forward if you stand on the brakes when no one is in the passenger seat. I always thought it was kind of odd. i think its just drivers weight that keeps drivers side in place. Ive had 84,85, 93, Mustangs they were all that way.

desertrunner · Mar 3, 2009

sorry to bring this thread out of the dead but ive had a few fox bodys and all of them that i have owned will fold forward unless they are out of a convertible, for whatever reason the convertible seats didnt fold

feellnfroggy · Mar 3, 2009

therieldeal said:
so i grabbed some halo headrest mustang seats from craigslist to throw in my 89 single cab. tossed the drivers seat in today... then noticed that it doesnt latch in the upright position. neither does the passenger side (wtf?). anyone know if these seatback mechanisms tend to fail or something?

Yes the seat back mechs are known criminally for failing. THe best thing to do is weld the mechanism into a permanent position. Every mustang that year that you see will most likely have the pimp lean to it. Its a flaw of the manufacturing. But its still a good deal and a good mod. Go to mm&ff.com and search the foxbody seat repair article.

240cubes · Mar 3, 2009

feellnfroggy said:
Every mustang that year that you see will most likely have the pimp lean to it. Its a flaw of the manufacturing. But its still a good deal and a good mod. Go to mm&ff.com and search the foxbody seat repair article.

hahaha, the pimp lean. :icon_rofl:

well put and so true. i guess im just used to it by now but it was my own fault. i now have a almost stock 302 back in but when the seat broke i had a s/c hci 306 in and i threw it down from 4th to 2nd when a ricer tried to blow past me and the force just oblitterated it and now i feel like eazy-e when i drive it

93Ranger4x4 · Mar 3, 2009

Yea, i've seen the pimp lean lol, 2 of my buddies have fox bodies and they both leaned on the drivers seat, the one was an 88 with 86k miles and it leaned. Easy thing to fix actually, hard part is trying not the burn through the sheet metal in the seat. I think just the tacks break lose or the seat breaks off where the tacks are, just gotta take the headrest off, then slowly wiggle the seat itself off of its skeleton to reveal the problem.

therieldeal · Mar 7, 2009

it gets annoying... the passenger seat slams forward whenever i have to stop quick. oh well.

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