seats

[PromiseKeeper]

Had a couple of hours to mess with it over the weekend. First pic is how I took care of mounting the seat. Rear is a piece of 2 inch square tubing and the front is 1 1/2 inch. I have it all mocked up to bolt in permanently. I forgot about the heat shield for the catalytic converter being where the bolts need to come through the floor so it will be coming out. I did away with the cat last year.

The door side seat rails are bolted directly to the floor

I'm using about 3 inch square pieces of 1/4 inch steel to reinforce the area where I'm putting the mounting bolts to make it stronger in case of a wreck.

Second pic is what the seat looks like mounted.

One more to go!

[bake74]

     Those look like nice seats, are they as comfortable as they look ?

[PromiseKeeper]

yes they are If I had Zieg's extended cab, I could lean back and have a place to sleep when I'm in the dog house

[bake74]

yes they are If I had Zieg's extended cab, I could lean back and have a place to sleep when I'm in the dog house

     He said he might be thinking of selling it. 

[PromiseKeeper]

Sorry for the delay guys, life just gets busy sometimes! Anyways, here is the promised pic of the finished project. Thanks for all the help and advice!
Scott

[bake74]

     Promisekeeper, those look nice.  Are they hooked up with all the power options still ?

[Skunksmash]

I wanna do that. Get one with power lumbar and all the rest of the goodies.

[PromiseKeeper]

Bake,
Everything works on the seats. All I need to do is hook up the power to the fuse block. I'm in no real hurry to do that since there isn't alot of room in that cab for adjustments. Once you get them where you want them, you dint move them much anyways. It was really helpful to be able to raise and lower them while installing!

Skunksmash,
I learned the hard way that it can be done, but if you look for seats my advice would be to get seats that have all the switches mounted on the seats if possible. It took some figuring out to make these work since the switches were in the doors of the donor vehicle. However, these were nice enough that I would do it again. Like anything else, I could do it much faster the second time! These are even heated, so the dog might get spoiled this fall

[shane_vincent]

Going to the salvage yard in the morn to pull my seats out of a 98 deville with dual heated seats. Couple questions. Are the seat belt buckles the same as far as the caddy buckle and the truck belt? From what it looks like you might have gotten the switch for the power seats out of a seville. They had a hump mounted center counsel and floor shifter would i be correct? Also would you mind providing some pics on how the doorside seat mounted to the cab? From what i see the seats look like they slide into a channel on the front seat tracks and are held in by 2 bolts in the rear.

Sorry for all the questions.

[PromiseKeeper]

No the seat belts are not the same. Someone mentioned a safety issue you may want to consider. The Caddy belts are mounted to the seat vs the truck belts are bolted to the floor. If your mounting of the Caddy seats will not survive a crash, as in coming loose from the floor, your seatbelts would be rendered useless. I opted to keep my floor mounted belts for that reason.

I'm not sure what model Caddy the switches came from and don't know if they were even bucket seats.

I mounted the seats in the rear directly to the floor. In the front, because the floor isn't level, I used the appropriate size square tubing to shim them up. I cut out 3X3 inch squares of 1/8 inch steel to use as reinforcement underneath the cab where the bolts came through.

Before you start, get under the truck and consider your gas tank and catalytic converter heat shield position and what you may have to do to accommodate the seat mounts.

Don't apologize for asking questions... that's the great part about this forum.... a great place to find help. Without some members of this forum, I would have had to do lots more research and trial and error on several projects. Welcome and ask away!

If you are headed to the junk yard, take a battery pack along so you can make sure everything works and also so you can move the seats to get to the mounting bolts. Disconnect the air bags!

Scott

[shane_vincent]

Well today has not been my day! Went to the yard found a 3/93 deville seats looked similar dual heated seats and the big buckle allowing me to use truck belts. Got em all out,paid for em loaded them in the car and ripped the seat cushion on the passenger seat with the drivers seat frame. Oh well off to the parts store to get a leather repair kit at 25.00. Got home fixed the one rip in the seat while it was drying went over and wired the drivers seat. Piece of cake., Till i started working with the heated seat part. The elements are out on the seats is my best guess. Turns onn relay clicks but no heat. Back to the JY i go hoping they will exchange seats. Anyway PromiseKeeper how did you wire the heated portion up in your seats?
\I know yours had the seat modual under it you bypassed and used another switch for the seat motors. Same thing im gonna do. But the whole basis for this swap is for the heated seats.

[Tx_Phil]

When you tested the heaters were you sitting on the seat or did you just turn them on and wait?  I don't know if all heated seat work the same way but the one's in our Chrysler 300 and our Dodge Durango would not heat up without someone sitting in the seat. They would turn on but not heat up. Once someone sat in the seat they started getting hot in just a few minutes.

[shane_vincent]

sitting in the seat waiting on them to warm up. I had a magnum that was the same way. Almost wish there was a bmw in the salvage yard. Got in the wifes 5 series this morning <around 18 deg outside> and within 1 minute pleasantly warm! followed by the heated steering wheel.

[PromiseKeeper]

When I wired up the heat and lumbar, I could do it direct since the controls for that were already on the side of the seats. The heat worked without me sitting on them. If they exchange the seats, I'd take a battery pack along to hook up to the donor car to test things out before doing all of that work. Just make sure you disconnect the air bags first.

[shane_vincent]

Yeah lol! They exchanged the seats and i took the ohm meter out with me armed with some heavy knowledge that i will share with everyone. Had to get a set of seats out of an eldorado cause thats the only pair i could find with good seat heaters. Got them home hooked the seats up< passenger side was a breeze > Drivers side was also! ima take photos tonight and share the wiring diagram. I also have some info on the narrow seat buckle problem and how to correct it to use the truck belts. So should i get the mods to make it a sticky when its done?? I have to take pics still and do some documentation.