bucket conversion and console

[MalibuSSwagon]

Originally Posted by Space Monkey

What's the overhead console and light set up from? That's awesome.

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?

[Gates72ss]

it came out of an 87 suburban , Yeah i had to modify it a little but it came out nice...

[rs74]

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.

[KrazyRay]

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.

[Anchorism]

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.

[rs74]

Originally Posted by KrazyRay

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.

Thank You!

[Rich84]

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
inces off the floor. You can't really tell from this picture.

[rs74]

Originally Posted by Rich84

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
inces off the floor. You can't really tell from this picture.
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Do they just not set right when latched on you? Wasn't really sure what the issue was. I do have some charcoal belts from a pickup if I have to use them. The 90 burb seats I am buying will come with the belts too.. I just replied in another thread to Gmachinz as he said there is two different inner latch styles. One must set up more by the seat making it easier to get ahold of and latch. Not sure if the other wants to fall down to the floor or what. I have to send payment yet on them but hopefully soon they will be here. All I need now is the burb cloth door panel inserts to match the seats.

[Rich84]

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.

If you want to sell your charcoal seat belts, I would be VERY interested.

[motornut]

Originally Posted by rs74

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.

look for a burb with power locks and manual windows,it will work for the drivers door

[Captkaos]

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

[rs74]

Originally Posted by Captkaos

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

Good idea!

[StarDust]

Am i the only one wo did it the semi hard way? Got my buckets for $35

[Skunksmash]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

I used a couple Hi-Lift jack mounting brackets that I had lying around. They were practically a spot on clone to the factory bracket and worked great.

Much easier than cutting brackets out of donor vehicle at the junk yard too.

Is that something that you bought somewhere? If so could you provide a link to them? I searched and saw that they're a jeep accessory part, but did you buy them separately somewhere?

I got some burb buckets I recovered and I need to get 'em installed.

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by Skunksmash

Is that something that you bought somewhere? If so could you provide a link to them? I searched and saw that they're a jeep accessory part, but did you buy them separately somewhere?

I got some burb buckets I recovered and I need to get 'em installed.

Yeah, but I don’t know if $34 would be worth buying an entire Hi-Lift jack mounting kit just to cut up one bracket. I just happen to have them laying around left over from a different project and found the bracket seemed to work well for installing the bucket seats . Seems like something could be created from scratch for much less money rather than ordering them just for this purpose.

You can buy them from Desert Rat

[MalibuSSwagon]

Originally Posted by Captkaos

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

I did get the liner with my console, it was clean so I took it.

[Skunksmash]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

Yeah, but I don’t know if $34 would be worth buying an entire Hi-Lift jack mounting kit just to cut up one bracket. I just happen to have them laying around left over from a different project and found the bracket seemed to work well for installing the bucket seats . Seems like something could be created from scratch for much less money rather than ordering them just for this purpose.

You can buy them from Desert Rat

They look a hair on the thin side, can't tell. Yours look thicker. Look like they might just squish, can't really tell lol

I guess we gonna find out!

[Rich84]

They really aren't that hard to shop out of a Burb..

[Skunksmash]

You gotta cut em out on site. IIRC, they're welded to the floor.

[DirtyLarry]

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.

[gmachinz]

That's a Suburban overhead console.

[motornut]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

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.

or take out the floor around the bracket,big hammer,and chisel....
bring that home and clean it up

[legendman]

Originally Posted by KrazyRay

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.

x2 I put a set of burb buckets in my K30, bent the rear part of the bracket in a vise and got some flat bar and bent it for the front
inboard seat track, the outer track bolted to the original bench seat location