Rebuilt the Bench Seat in my 1985 K30 Myself

[1-ton]

Since I did not want to spend $1000 on a new semi-bench seat for my 1985 K30, I decided just to rebuild the factory bench seat in it myself. I tore it down to the bare frame, and then ordered a new cold molded bottom seat cushion and the upholstery (with hog ring kit) from LMC. All of the stuff I bought from LMC came to about $430 with shipping. I went to a local industrial hardware store and bought all new seat springs ($2.30 each) for it too. The seat should look good with the new carpet kit I also just installed in the truck. I am going to install it in my truck this afternoon. Rebuilding these seats is not very hard to do at all. Will post more pictures of it when installed.

Picture of seat installed (sorry for the crummy pictures, but all I have is a cheap $80 digital camera)

 

[stallion85]

Great job, looks good!

 

[big_truxx]

cool i may do the same in the future both the 89 scotsdales i have have a rip in the cloth bench on the drivers side

 

[1-ton]

Great job, looks good!

Thanks man!

 

[mudslinger99]

Looks like you did a good job on the seat

 

[Robert79K5]

Its really cool to see someone go through the effort of putting something back like it was when it would be so easy/tempting to just junk it and put a differnt seat in there.

There are parts of my Blazer that I will never change, like the seats, just because they remind me of my Blazer when I first got it. I want to keep enough of it origional so that I still recognize it for the blazer that it used to be as well as the Blazer I turned it into.

Looks great.