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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Projects Posts (NOT VEHICLES) => Topic started by: slammed79 on August 30, 2014, 10:56:54 am
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I came across a Craigslist ad for these seats back in March and picked them up. They are a second row 60/40 seats out of an 07-13 Tahoe, and are PD take outs. I got them for $100.
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They are brand new, and with all the factory stuff, they weigh a ton. Well, the factory mounts were removed in short order.
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This lightened them up quite a bit, and from there they went into the closet until this last weekend.
I needed to cut the factory pivot brackets and supports off of the bottoms, but I managed to lose the pinion gear of my roto-zip right angle head, and the piece isn't made anymore, so there they sat. I finally brought my angle grinder home from work last weekend, but the switch on it went bad very suddenly.
On Monday I borrowed a grinder, came home and got the 40 side relieved of its brackets.
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After:
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I killed off my last cutoff wheel on this seat. Well tomorrow is another day.
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Tomorrow turned into Thursday, as often happens with me, but I got the 60 side de-bracketed.
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I've had a plan in mind all along of how to mount these in my 74. I'm going to take two sets of bench seat sliders, and a set of suburban bucket perches to make it happen. These seats total up about 5 or 6 inches narrower than the factory bench. I'm planning on getting the seats mounted, then making a piece to fill the gap, and wrap it with the gm ebony vinyl.
This is where I'm at right now with the project. I did go looking for perches and sliders last weekend, but the junkyard I went to was slim pickins and I didn't find anything useable. I'm spending this weekend doing family stuff, so next weekend I'm hitting a different yard or two and will find what I need.
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Do you mean 5"/6" narrower from door to door ? So you plan on making something like a center console then ?
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Yes door to door. Sorry for any confusion. I was thinking about making piece to fill the gap. I don't think a console really, since it would be out of easy reach. I'm not totally sure what it will be yet. I may pull the bench out of the truck today and set the Tahoe seats in just to get an idea of how they'll look.