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Re: Body plugs
[Re: 1970RT]
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09/16/16 12:32 AM
09/16/16 12:32 AM
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,655 Cut and Shoot, TX
kentj340
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,655
Cut and Shoot, TX
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Hopefully I will be at your stage of installing all the body plugs in my 69 Barracuda soon. I made a list of where all my body plugs came from - maybe they are close to the same as for your 69 Dart. My car was made at Hamtramck November 1968.
See the list in Excel here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8i8d14gqo0pwxjf/Layson%27s%20body%20plugs.xls?dl=0
Sorry, the spread sheets work for me, but I know it's difficult for others to decipher. Ignore the sheet named 'List with purchases' (lower left corner) unless you bought exactly the same replacement plugs that I did. The sheet named 'List without purchases' (lower left corner) will make more sense to you. PM me if any questions.
Here's a curious thing about body plugs. The floor pan for my car was stamped with holes for both bucket and bench seats. My guess is that all others were stamped that way too, but I have no information. In the case of my car that got bucket seats, the unneeded bench seat holes were plugged with four 5/8" plugs. When I tried to buy replacement plugs I was told there was no such thing. AFAIK nobody is selling any body plug kit with 5/8" plugs. There is no Mopar part number for 5/8" plugs, but there are part numbers for other sizes.
The top photo shows two 5/8" bench seat holes in the raised area. Two 5/8" bucket seat holes are just beyond at a lower elevation.
The lower photo shows a close up of one each bench and bucket seat holes with slight misalignment of the reinforcing bracket below and factory paint. So there definitely were factory 5/8" plugs, at least on my car.
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