Seat bracket and slider, interior update. WITH Pictures!

[JT88K5]

I picked up a set of what appears to be a lightly used set of procar/summit seats cheap. The Seats came with a universal mount plate attached. Upon inspection and trying to figure out how to mount these things. The track is the same width from side to side, but the holes are 3” closer on the seats than on the bracket from front to back. I took the universal mounting plate off of the new seat and was playing with the alignment on the original base and noticed an arch in the slider rails on the driver seat. Checking out the passenger seat, it is straight as an arrow.

So any opinions on the arch in the sliders on the driver side, are they bent or this way by design? I’m sure at least one guy on here will go with the former .

It looks like my best option is to weld a 3/8 or so tapped spacer on the bottom of the universal mounting plate, at the same front to back spacing of the original sliders Bolt plate to seats, then bolt slider to the tapped spacer. Other option would be to drill another whole in the slider to match the seat, due to bolt head, this would limit front to back travel of the sliders depending on where I put the whole. But since the slider is crowned… I guess it would either straighten the slider or bend the seat frame when I tighten it down. Or with my luck, bust the slider.

 

[JT88K5]

Sheet man, thought someone would weigh in. OK, so drilling a few holes ain’t no thing, sacrificed some seat movement, but it fits me.

But What started this all was I knew the floor was cracked at the rear of the front seat mounts.

After pulling up,the the 34 year old carpet and jute.


Had a bit of paint buble and surface rust. After some clean up.



Welded up the cracks and welded In a ~3x5 piece of 1/16 sheet robbed from a cutout piece of lawn trailer cart. Just what I had laying around. Then primed and painted, rattle cans.






In with the new carpet, got the rubber backed ACC carpet kit. Glueing the shit on the wheel wells was a pain. Also painted the rear inside quarter panels, they were blue, donation from old 88, and the front trim around the doors and headliner from a dirty white to light grey. Couldn’t find and regular gray, shelves were empty at Wally World.


finished up the carpet last Sunday, decided to look one more time on CL for seats and found these for $100.


The original seats I had recovered once, guy was supposed to do new foam but said he couldn’t get it, this was a few years ago.

Driver side mounted.

 

[Wes Harden]

Pictures of mount in question might have help someone weigh in.

Truck is looking good seats look comfy

 

[muddybuddy]

Sheet man, thought someone would weigh in. OK, so drilling a few holes ain’t no thing, sacrificed some seat movement, but it fits me.

But What started this all was I knew the floor was cracked at the rear of the front seat mounts.

After pulling up,the the 34 year old carpet and jute.
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Had a bit of paint buble and surface rust. After some clean up.
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Welded up the cracks and welded In a ~3x5 piece of 1/16 sheet robbed from a cutout piece of lawn trailer cart. Just what I had laying around. Then primed and painted, rattle cans.
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In with the new carpet, got the rubber backed ACC carpet kit. Glueing the shit on the wheel wells was a pain. Also painted the rear inside quarter panels, they were blue, donation from old 88, and the front trim around the doors and headliner from a dirty white to light grey. Couldn’t find and regular gray, shelves were empty at Wally World.
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finished up the carpet last Sunday, decided to look one more time on CL for seats and found these for $100.
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The original seats I had recovered once, guy was supposed to do new foam but said he couldn’t get it, this was a few years ago.

Driver side mounted.
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Looks good. What color is your carpet? Looks blue in front pic And compared to grey rear seat, and looks grey in rear pic.

 

[JT88K5]

For some reason, greys and blues look alike in this vehicle. My 88 K5 was two tone blue with blue interior. This one 87 is black with grey interior. I had the blue center console and rear interior panels from my 88 in my 87. They did not look out of place. The blue looked grayish and the grays looked bluish.

i think I‘m going to have to rename it to 50shades. Had I actually planned this redo, I would have put more thought into it. started out just to fix the floor, then it kinda snowballed on me. My main objective was to git-r-done because it’s hunting season. Couple that with the fact nobody has paint on the shelves and you get 50 shades.

The new carpet is grey, a few shades darker than what was in there originally.