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Original Bucket seats installation????
I'm trying to drill the holes in my cab for original bucket seats. I'm looking for some pictures of the braces and alignment of the seats. Anyone document their installation? I have the material to make the braces but would kinda like to see some originals.
Are the outside front holes used on LH and RH seat mounts? Thanks |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Here are some pictures of what I'm looking at.
Notice that the seats are touching the center console on the sides with the bolts in the outer stock bench seat holes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
subscribed. Always thought they used the same holes as the bench seat - so, therefore, I have no clue.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
I have always thought that too but, it just doesn't look right. The driver side inside mount hits the tranny tunnel raised area before the bolt will fit in the hole too. I can force it in there but it's tight.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
if you look there are dimples in non bucket seat floors for bucket seat location. There are also dimples in the center floor pan for the console as well. The only direct bolt in is the the buddy bucket seats, all others must be drilled to fit.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
I don't have my cab here to confirm this, but it appears that the dimples refered to are visible in a couple of your pictures outboard of the seat brackets. Looks like 1/2"-3/4" out from the existing holes. This is consistent with where my original buckets were mounted from the factory.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
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These look like dimples in the picture here: |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Those are the ones I was referring to. I don't have any pictures that would help, and the truck is currently disassembled and 2000 miles away. If you can wait about 3 weeks I can get pics. However, I estimate the seats are about 3/8"-1/2" away from the console. I have some shots with the seats installed but from a 45 degree angle... not much help.
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Any chance any of you experts have some pictures of your original buckets or a measurement from the seat bracket to the center edge of the radius? |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Okay, I bit the bullet and went with Mel's suggestion from the original bucket seat floor pan. Although I didn't build the brace that ties the two sides together I did make some braces from some old ball bearing drawer slides. They are the exact thickness and near the same width and depth. Here are the pictures of what I did in case someone else can use it. If you look at the pictures, you'll notice I moved the driver side hole pattern outward 3/4". this made the two seats the same distance from the edge of the seat to the door opening symetrical. It also made it where the driver side seat isn't bound up against the console.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
nice work Mike
I am going to keep this one for future refrence
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
I will add that the big middle brace can be found and removed from any early blazer, got mine from teeitup. Randy usually cuts them out when he parts out a blazer. If you get this piece you can use it as a template to drill the front holes in the correct location and then either use panel adhesive or weld it in. This piece really takes all the guess work out of where the holes should be.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Hey Mike,
On mine, I used the outside front holes and then marked the locations with a Sharpie so I would have the locations exactly right with these seats. In the process of drilling I noticed the dimples that others have seen. Anyway, I went ahead and used the outside fronts as they would be more secure than what I rigged up, and the console just barely touches the seats at the front corners. Not snug at all. *shrug*
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Great thread! To add to Tim's illustrations above, here are two more showing the attachment of the factory shoulder belt retainers that mount to the front of the console, if your truck came optioned with both bucket seats and shoulder belts.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
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Can someone with buckets in a truck please measure center to center the distance shown in this picture. Or maybe Koop can answer how far he moved his over. Thank you. ![]() |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
I took some pics of my 1972 C30 which has 44,000 miles on it which has factory bucket seats in it. Like this truck and all the trucks that we have seen bucket seats in, none of them used the bolt in the support that runs underneath the floor.
The front bucket mounting just used a square nut welded to the floor. No additional floor support brackets was used except for what was used for the bench seat. I will take some photos of the front mounting and add them later As for the offset on the drives side front holes I found it to be 1 1/4" to the left. See photo. ![]() ![]()
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Thanks for the response Roger. So it looks like 1-1/4" over is where it really should be. I agree that your bracket would fit with no mods if you drill the drivers side outer front bolt hole at 1-1/4" over from the existing bench seat bolt (that's measured center to center).
I used a short drill bit and put a bolt through the z-shaped cab support. Maybe it's not exactly factory, but since the nut's there I thought I'd use it. It would be nice to have a second reference point if anyone else with an original bucket seat truck could measure like Roger did above. |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
Adding to this thread
These pics were in that older thread linked on page 1 |
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
If anyone that has an original bucket truck can measure the diameter of the screw head with the blue arrows, we can then scale the center to center hole spacing as GM did them.
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Re: Original Bucket seats installation????
My truck is a 1970 originally equipped w/factory buckets so it already has the holes in the right places. The bad news: factory buckets are long gone. The good news: I have a set of Blazer Sport buckets. Will the Blazer buckets bolt-in directly or will modifications need to be done? Thanks.
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