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Seat Bracket Question

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Hi All,

Someone recently told me about an aftermarket seat bracket that is designed to bolt to uneven floor of the 1973-87 chevy 4X4 trucks. Apparently the bracket is designed so that it bolts to the existing holes, but provides you a flat, easy-to-bolt-to surface so that you can quickly bolt in another seat from just about any other vehicle. They are sort of like an adapter as making custom bracketry that is strong and solid for the floor shape of the chevy cabs is kind of a pain.

Has anyone seen these or heard of them? Know of which vendor makes them?

Thanks,

Merc359
(Rowan):confused:
 
My understanding is that it is basically an L-shaped bracket with the short part of the L facing down with a flange that bolts to the front hump of the truck floor and then a flat bar running horizontal to the back bolt. This provides 1 bar for each side of the seat that can then be drilled, welded-to, or what have you. The fellow that told me about it swears he's seen them in a pile of trucks.

Lord knows, if I find out they aren't available, I'm gonna make these things ASAP. I am SURE there will be a demand!
 
The only ones I've seen were for installing those aftermarket couch-like seats in the later IFS trucks.
 
I'm looking too

I'm trying to put 89 Suburbank buckets in a 76. Found something on one of the expensive seat company websites, but the brackets were more than what I paid for the seats! If I find something, I'll post it.
 
Yeah I can't find adapters anywhere. Money isn't really the issue on this particular point as I just want the damned project done and am starting to throw cash at it like a lunatic. Just don't have the time anymore to spend custom fabricating up a seat frame.

What about actual seats? What companies make some good seats that are harness compatible?
 
Corbeau (corbeau.com) makes brackets for GMC trucks to mount most seats. $95.00 each.
 
rjpastor said:
I'm trying to put 89 Suburbank buckets in a 76. Found something on one of the expensive seat company websites, but the brackets were more than what I paid for the seats! If I find something, I'll post it.
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go to the bone yard and take a battery powered die grinder with a cutting wheel on it with you. find a suburban and cut the welds holding the 2 mounts you need, then you could use bolts to bolt them to your floorboard.

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The Eventual Solution...

Ok, after hunting around for brackets, and taking lots of tips via PM on how to do it, I got out my measuring tape, welder, head band, bottle of Jack Daniels, and went to work to MAKE something to bolt aftermarket seats to the uneven floor of the 73-87 Chevy truck. I didn't want to to use the stock bolts or bolt holes, so I welded up a 1" x 1" steel frame, made it such that the sliders for the Hunsaker seats bolted to the frame, and then set to work making 4 different length of legs to mount to the floorboars. I then tacked on a plate to the bottom of every bolt hole so, put flanges on for easy removal and installation, and TA DA! Those seats are bolted in so tight you'll have to tear to cab floorboards out to get them off. Then I fabricated up a behind-the-seat mount for the two harness straps, and installed it. Below is a picture of the brackets on the bench all welded, painted, and read to install, and anothe picture of them installed in the truck.

SO, what do you think? They are both level to within a 1/4 inch of each other, and are within a 1/4 inch forwards and backwards, with functional sliders on a reclining Hunsaker suspension seat.

I'm thinking I might start fabricating these brackets for people to install in the stock bolt holes (or custom as I've done) to create a flat surface to mount their seats to. What do you think is a reasonable price? Material cost was around $30 for steel, welding wire and gas, and it took a while to get them all the right height. This initial pair was put together kinda sloppily (welds for example, and trying to get the right height) but I am sure I can streamline this so it is a snap.

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