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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Interior & Equipment => Seats and Restraints => Topic started by: Skunksmash on November 21, 2011, 05:20:32 am
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A guy I know is selling these seats. He got them in a trade, but he doesn't know exactly which year/make/model they came out of. I was hoping that someone would recognize the pattern of the fabric. And could tell me exactly what they came out of. Maybe if they're good I'll buy them.
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1988-89 Suburban I think
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These were used in the suburban like late 80's to 91 most people like to pull there banch seat from there full size and swap in these buckets. With a little modification it works well, the seats need a mounting tab mounted to the floor for the brackets under to the seat closest to the "tranny hump" also they used different seat belts. there defiantly not a bolt in replacement for a bench seat though.
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Yeah its pretty cool cause he said they came out of a pickup and should mount right up to my truck without having to go to the junkyard and do a bunch of grinding to get the suburban part.
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Yeah its pretty cool cause he said they came out of a pickup and should mount right up to my truck without having to go to the junkyard and do a bunch of grinding to get the suburban part.
http://www.73-87.com/7387garage/interior/factory_buckets.htm shows you the bracket needed for the inside front...
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Well the guy didn't really know what he was talking about, I'm afraid. I bought the seats and console for $75, but he didn't actually have the correct mounting brackets. He was just using some kind of really long bolt lol. Guess I'll be finding some way to get ahold of some of those brackets.
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You only need brackets for the front, right? The back doesn't need anything?
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Looks like it according to the pictures. I see the sliders knob.
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Slider's knob? Is there a knob that's needed to make the seat slide backwards?
Also something's wrong with their arms. There seems to be... no foam at all in them? I know those things must have had some foam. Maybe its a common problem.
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They look like mine. Mine are out of a '91 suburban.
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t195/wes2880/78%20C20/Interior-Seats.jpg)
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That pic makes me wonder if it would be beneficial to raise the center console height up some. You wouldn't have to lean down quite as far in order to reach things in the bottom of the console. Or to reach your drinks. Maybe add a little to that one bracket, and fab up a new one to raise the front. I think the console only has one bracket. At least mine only came with one.
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I did that. I replaced the front risers that came with the seats with some about 2" taller, and I raised the console until the bottom cleared my amp. I guess the console is raised, only in the front about 2" to 2.5".
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t195/wes2880/Parts%20n%20Pieces/CustomSeatRisers.jpg)1
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Good idea. What did you use to raise the console? Just those spacer type things that you can thread a bolt through?
Also, I made a deal with an upholstery lady that works for some of my relatives. If I peel of the seat covers, she'll use the old stock covers as a pattern and sew me up some brand new ones. Then I have to put the new covers on though. In return all I have to do is give her a speaker/box/amp combo that I don't want anymore anyway. Pretty sweet deal for me. I'll take some before and after pics and post 'em up.
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The spacers for the Console are just a couple of pieces of 1/2" or so SS Tubing. I ran a long bolt through the center of the pipe with oversized washers against each end of the pipe, and on the other side of the parts it bolts to.
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Hit a snag. Have any of you ever taken the arms off of these old chairs? For some reason, they made it so as you can't get the right sized socket around the bolt that holds the arm on. It is too far recessed into the plastic of the arm itself. And the hole leading to the bolt is so narrow that the correct socket just won't fit down there. Anyone taken off the arms, that can offer me some advice?
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Here are some pics of my work so far. I think I'll be using the roll of fabric that you see in one of the pics. Maybe. Haven't decided yet. Its got a nice little pattern on it, and its high traffic stuff, and the right color. Sort of a golden tan. The relatives had it on hand already. It was left over from a job already done so its spare that I can have for free. Peeling the covers off couldn't have been easier. You just take a little pair of sewing scissors (or you could use a razor blade or knife if you didn't have those) and go after the stitching in the seams on the outside edge of the seats. Then just some tin snips or something to cut the hog rings. And the cover comes right off. Guess we'll see if its so easy to put them back on. I have some of that super thin, upholstery slip plastic so maybe that will help. Its made to help you get things on easier.
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/seatitselffoam.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/seatbackfoam.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/seatitselffoam2.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/thisboltsucked.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/pileofseatcovers.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/seatcoverandweltcord.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/dogclimb2.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/materialcloseup.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/armcovercontrast.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/armcontrast3.jpg)
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Can't wait till the seamstress lady that works for the relatives gets everything all sewed up. Then I get to repaint the center console and try to come up with all manner of brackets and spacers and such, for all this stuff. I love this kind of stuff though.
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Also I got this pic from a link in this very thread. (I think..)
Is it really a 1:1 ratio? If so those things are huge. I was hoping one of you guys had actually handled the brackets that mount the buckets to the floor. And could tell me if this pic is entirely accurate. It just seems a little too big.
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/Seatbracketpattern1to1scale.png)
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Alright I decided not to go with that other material in the previous pics. I went to a local fabric supply company, and picked out some stuff that they had on sale for $5 a yard. It was overstock, previously it had been about $40 per yard. Unlike the other material I had picked out, it is actually made for automotive seating so hopefully it will be more durable. That was my concern. A carpet sample of my carpet color is also in the pics. I'm going to use the stuff with the little dotted pattern as the inside stretch of the seats that you actually sit on, and the stuff with no pattern as the outsides and the back of the seats.
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/fabric2.jpg)
(http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq318/justinsn95/fabric1.jpg)
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The brighter pic is with the camera flash on. Darker pic is with it off. So do yall think that is a good combo? What is your opinion? Think it matches well? I'm hoping it all turns out well...
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Looks good to me.
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I just gotta say, that look on the dogs face is classic, like when your kids want to help and they stare at you with those eyes and keep saying, please
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I think it will look good
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I like the fabric combo. It'll look nice.
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If you print that out 1:1, it will be the right size...
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I guess I'm not really sure how to go about doing that. On the original page, its really small. But when you click on it, it gets as big as I posted there. Is there some way I can be 100% sure that it printed out 1:1? My printer seems to just print it exactly how it was on the screen.
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In your printer settings it should say scale to fit or 100% or something like that. You don't want it scaled.
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Looks like I'm outa luck on those brackets. My buddy with the machine shop packed up and went to work in the oilfield in some other state. And his dad who owned the shop finally got to retirement age and retired and closed it down. I should have hurried up.
So it looks like I'm going to the junkyard. But what did you do? Did you just show up there with an angle grinder and a long extension cord? lol. That seems like what I am going to have to do. Might be awkward explaining what I want to do, to the people that work at the junkyard.
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hammer and chisel if it is a Suburban donor. Cordless Drill and bit if it is a pickup donor.
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Is it possible to find a blazer donor? Can't remember what seats came in those. I think they were the same type of buckets as the burbs.
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Blazer floors are flat, so they won't have anything that will work with pickup.
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You guys probly have more experience with this. Do they usually charge for a full floor pan if you want part of it hacked out? I'm thinking I may be better off if I just go ask them to cut out a square of the floor of the suburban donor, and then get the mounts off once I get home where I have all my own tools.
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In your printer settings it should say scale to fit or 100% or something like that. You don't want it scaled.
This is the options I have for that. Not very good. Anyone have the dimensions that these brackets are actually supposed to be? That would really help.
(http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u483/waycooltvrepairman/bracket.png)
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I'll probly just get the seats in there, take some measurements, and fab up something of my own. Someone has already heated and bent the seat tracks on the front so I may have been forced to do that anyway.
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If you use the later model Suburban tabs, they are just simple square pieces with a captured bolt.
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Any update on this project?
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I'll probly just get the seats in there, take some measurements, and fab up something of my own. Someone has already heated and bent the seat tracks on the front so I may have been forced to do that anyway.
I take it you are trying to install these in a truck. My truck came with the bucket seats (OE). I'm out of town for a few weeks. When I get home I cant take some measurements for you. Sense a lot of you are looking for info on the bucket seat brackets. Maybe I can be of some help here.