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Re: bucket conversion and console
It's the Suburban overhead console. I didn't grab the overhead console because it looked too long. Did you cut it down to fit?
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Re: bucket conversion and console
it came out of an 87 suburban , Yeah i had to modify it a little but it came out nice...
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Dragging this back out of the cobwebs. I have some questions if you can bear with me. Looking at buying a set of 90 burb buckets, console seat belts and dash for my shortbed.
First ? is do I need to switch the seat brackets from the buckets to ones from a bench as I have heard you can do that or is it just as easy to get the brackets from the burb for the inners of the buckets. Also does the female end of the seat belt bolt in where the seat bolts down on these? Second ? is about the overhead console. I am going for the look that Gates72 has in his pics. I think that turned out nice. Are most of the lets say 85-91 overhead consoles the same length? I was thinking of an 03 Silverado console but might be easier to do one of these. Exactly how to they mount. Are there brackets welded to the roof or is there some type of reinforcement there? Third thing is door panels. I like the look of Gates72 passenger side door panel. The only problem is getting one to match the drivers side without having four window switches. So not sure how to work that out. Gmachinz did a pretty good job on his panels. I think he took the burb cloth insert out and trimmed it down and put it in a truck door panel. The thing with that is finding the correct shade of gray in a truck which I don't think they made. Running out of options here. I have also thought about putting in the drivers side burb panel and try using one of the back window switches to operate my back power sliding glass window. Not really fond of having that look since to me it kind of looks half a** done. I want to have the same cloth as the seats in the door panels. Any suggestions on any of this. Oh and one more thing. How much difference is the burb seat belts compared to the truck belts. Someone mentioned they don't fit quite right. Would I be better off using the truck male belts and the burb female ends. I know this is alot of questions but thought this might be the right thread to add to. Thanks guys.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
You should be able to use all of the burb bucket seat tracks, but you will need to modify the angle at the back of them to fit the contour of the truck floor. Also, grab the inside front bucket towers from the donor burb.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Heres a snap shot of the blazer seats in the rig im working on picking up. This was actually installed by the dealer when it was new. Apparently the story goes the buyer ordered the truck bucket seats, and it came in with a bench. So they were furious and to please them the dealer pulled seats from a blazer and made brackets for the seats to bolt in to the truck..... Im personally not a huge fan but they look better than the bench! The back seat actually matches the front buckets pattern wise. Ill probably pull them once i buy it though....I can try and get some better pics this weekend seeing as how im gonna go hang out there.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Thank You!
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Re: bucket conversion and console
The seat belts that I grabbed out of a burb are designed a little differently. They sit up higher and are a little above the seat. Not a big deal, but I would like to replace with a truck belt. The seat belt retractor is actually acouple of
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Re: bucket conversion and console
If you look at the retractor "box" you can see it is a little higher then the seat..It could be because the seats are so old and squished down.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Those talking about stuff rattling in the console look at this refurb link. The 81-87(91)'s had a liner in them.
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/sm...p?topic=9540.0
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Am i the only one wo did it the semi hard way? Got my buckets for $35
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I got some burb buckets I recovered and I need to get 'em installed. |
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Re: bucket conversion and console
They really aren't that hard to shop out of a Burb..
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Re: bucket conversion and console
You gotta cut em out on site. IIRC, they're welded to the floor.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
Actually, I believe the Suburban brackets are just spot welded to the floor. These days with high zoot cordless drills it would seem they would be pretty easy to drill out the spot welds at the bone yard.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
That's a Suburban overhead console.
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Re: bucket conversion and console
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bring that home and clean it up
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Re: bucket conversion and console
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inboard seat track, the outer track bolted to the original bench seat location ![]()
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