new seats?

[CbHeEaVsYt]

ok in a couple of pictures of trucks on here i seen that they had 99-present silverado/sierra seats in them, well this brings me to my point my dumb$%# sister totaled our 99 Sierra (2 wheel deive) so i was wondering how hard is this mod to make these seats fit in my truck 82 Silverado (2 wheel drive)

any tips any of you have would be great

thanks,

cb

[Greenlee]

I just installed a 60/40 bench seat with center console out of a 99' in my 76' last weekend. I have had the seats for about a year and just got around to putting them in. I am real happy with the way it turned out. They are comfortable and look great. Plus, I have a console to put stuff in and still have a bench seat to carry passengers. I can't take much credit for the work as a friend of mine who is good at fabrication and welding did most of the work.

Basically, we took some thin metal strips that we bought at Home Depot and hamerred and bent them to fit the floor of the truck. After alot of taking the seats in and out of the truck and taking measurements, we held our metal strips up against the 99' seats factory brackets and market what we wanted to cut off (the 99' seat brackets are too tall, your head would be in the roof).

Next, we welded the molded metal strips to the 99' seat brackets. Finally, we marked and drilled our holes and bolted the seats to the floor. Where we could, we bolted the seats to places in the floor with double thickness, and we used some metal strips under the floor for reinforcement. The hardest bracket to make was the inside bracket for the larger seat since there is deep spot in the center of the floor. We had to actually extend that bracket, rather than cut material off.

Like I said, the seats are very comfortable and I feel like I have more room in the truck just about everywhere. One area where we kind of messed up I think, is we had the seat pretty close to the foreward position on the slide when we took our measurements. I'm 5'-6" tall and with the seat all the way forward it is comfortable for me to drive. Anybody shorter would have problems. I think this could have been avoided if we had taken our measurements with the seat further back on the slide. As it is, it will slide back until it hits the cab, but it won't slide forward as far as the stock seat would.

I'd be happy to take pictures of the seats and brackets. Somebody, would have to either post them for me or tell me how to do it.

[Greenlee]

Cool! It looks like you used the same seats I did except mine are dark blue. Do you have full adjustment front to back? As I mentioned above, mine don't go as far forward as the stock seat. Are yours power? If so, how hard was that to hook up?

Mine have the buttons for power lumbar, etc. However, I didn't have the motor or hardware so its not hooked up. Mine did come with the manual slide for some odd reason, so I used that.

I think it would be pretty cool to hook up all the power goodies at a later date.

EDIT: STRANGE, I REPLIED TO COCHINO'S POST, BUT NOW ITS GONE!

[us111]

greenlee, i am glad u put the edit in,,i was interested in the post and all the sudden it just didnt make a lick of sense...lol

[CbHeEaVsYt]

id be more then glad to post them for u if u email me them at lloydj1390@yahoo.com

cb

[CbHeEaVsYt]

nice lookin truck man

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by Greenlee

Cool! It looks like you used the same seats I did except mine are dark blue....!

It looks like you guys are talking about two different types of seats. The seats Greenlee used are 95-99 style seats. They have a totally different bracket than the 99+ seats.

CbHeEaVsYt From my experience the way the brackets and seats are designed on the 99+ trucks they will NOT work in your truck. They will be too tall. Are you sure you have seen them in 73-87 trucks?....

[Greenlee]

Originally Posted by N2TRUX

It looks like you guys are talking about two different types of seats. The seats Greenlee used are 95-99 style seats. They have a totally different bracket than the 99+ seats.

CbHeEaVsYt From my experience the way the brackets and seats are designed on the 99+ trucks they will NOT work in your truck. They will be too tall. Are you sure you have seen them in 73-87 trucks?....

This thread is a little confusing. I posted a response to the picture of the seats in Cochino's blazer. However, as soon as I posted my response his post disapppeared! Now my post makes no sense.

You are correct though. I would call my seats the 95-98 style, however, I was told they are from a 99'.

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by Greenlee

...You are correct though. I would call my seats the 95-98 style, however, I was told they are from a 99'.

Yeah I missed what Cochino posted. Regardless my comments are focused on the seats and brackets. Your seats probably are from a 99 "classic". That was a transition year and they still offered the 88-98 style truck along with the 99+ body style.

My point is the seats and brackets you have will work just fine (with mods) in a 73-87 truck. The seats from a 99+ truck will not.....

BTW- Very nice welding....

[Greenlee]

Originally Posted by N2TRUX

BTW- Very nice welding....

Thanks. If I had done it they would look like specs of bird crap, or the seats would be sitting on blocks of wood!

I have a friend who is in to building up 4X4's and is good with a welder. All I did was hand him tools and help him lug the seats in and out of the truck a bunch of times. He is currenlty building an 87' suburban on 2.5 ton Rockwells with four wheel steering. It should be pretty cool when he gets done. However, he is never really done. As soon as he finishes it he will come up with something bigger and better to do to it. I have seen him do this over and over again.