I took the seats out of my '68 Convertible to reupholster them over the winter. I am now ready to reinstall them, and am wondering if anyone has any tricks in getting the nuts back on the bolts. It was tough enough to get the socket over the nut when removing them. I can imagine it is going to get tougher to get the nut on the bolt. You are basically working by feel as you can't see up into that area.

 

Shouldn't be that tricky. Make sure the threads are clean and the nuts go on easily before you install the seats then use a shallow socket with an extension, ease it up in the hole, find the bolt and start threading it on. Easy does it and if it starts to feel like it is cross threading, stop, back off and try it again.