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Will these seats work with Merrick's rear seat bracket?

clutch2k3

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Would these 2005 chevy tahoe 3rd row seats that are on FBMP work with Merrick's rear seat bracket? I don't think they would but wanted to double check. Here's where Merrick explains which seats are required. I have no idea why this font is the way it is and I tried to make it normal a few times.​


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Once upon a time on a different forum, a guy posted these seat mount plans before Merrick started selling his. These plans were free to anyone that wanted them, the MG bracket looks very similar. :whistle:

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If you are close to the Alabama coast I've got a 3rd row seat I'll give you.
 
nvrenuf said:
If you are close to the Alabama coast I've got a 3rd row seat I'll give you.
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Thanks for the offer, very cool! But 14 hours round trip + gas I'd rather pay a few hundred locally.
 
nvrenuf said:
Once upon a time on a different forum, a guy posted these seat mount plans before Merrick started selling his. These plans were free to anyone that wanted them, the MG bracket looks very similar. :whistle:
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Any recommendations for buying 6" flat stock?

Now that you showed me those plans I'm realizing how easy these would be to fab up myself. the big box hardware stores around me don't carry 6" wide stock. I found this for $72 shipped (cut in half, 2 X 60" pcs)
 
clutch2k3 said:
Any recommendations for buying 6" flat stock?

Now that you showed me those plans I'm realizing how easy these would be to fab up myself. the big box hardware stores around me don't carry 6" wide stock. I found this for $72 shipped (cut in half, 2 X 60" pcs)
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I’m sure it’s chinesium quality but Amazon has ok prices on pieces of metal. If you or someone you know has a Prime membership it probably will ship for free.
 
nvrenuf said:
I’m sure it’s chinesium quality but Amazon has ok prices on pieces of metal. If you or someone you know has a Prime membership it probably will ship for free.
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I would have never guessed prime has steel stock. Checking now

Update: Amazon doesn't have 48" long pieces of 6" X 1/8"
 
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May be steel could be obtained locally from a steel supplier, fabricator or scrap yard?

I've cut 1/8" plate with a carbide blade in a Milwaukee steel circular saw....use a strait edge for accuracy.
 
Just search for metal suppliers near you. There is bound to be one you can walk into with some dimensions for rough cuts and get all you need within a couple days. If not, then there are lots of metal suppliers online that will sell common lengths of flat bar or do custom cuts at your specified length. Steel is expensive though, so don't get your hopes up of doing this for 1/10 the price of MG. At a half assed guess, you are looking at $100 in steel and quite a few hours of fab work for the average joe. Like everything else, it's only cheaper because you aren't paying yourself a wage.
 
Polymath said:
Just search for metal suppliers near you. There is bound to be one you can walk into with some dimensions for rough cuts and get all you need within a couple days. If not, then there are lots of metal suppliers online that will sell common lengths of flat bar or do custom cuts at your specified length. Steel is expensive though, so don't get your hopes up of doing this for 1/10 the price of MG. At a half assed guess, you are looking at $100 in steel and quite a few hours of fab work for the average joe. Like everything else, it's only cheaper because you aren't paying yourself a wage.
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I agree with all of that. I'm literally estimating $100 in steel shipped and 5 hours of fab time (for an avg joe like myself). Merrick's are $600 shipped (raw steel w/o powder coating). So assuming $100 in shipped mats, that comes to $100/hr for my time. Only after doing that math I decided to fab this myself instead of buying from Merrick, who I think is an awesome guy that sells great products and I don't think he's overpriced at all. It's just that I have all the tools and I'm confident I have the skills to fab something simple like this myself.
 
nvrenuf said:
Once upon a time on a different forum, a guy posted these seat mount plans before Merrick started selling his. These plans were free to anyone that wanted them, the MG bracket looks very similar. :whistle:

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If you are close to the Alabama coast I've got a 3rd row seat I'll give you.
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Those plans omit 2, .5" dia x 48" solid rods, correct?
 
Steel Supply LP out of TX looks legit to me and AFAICT has great prices. I'm going to get 6"X120" cut at 48" twice (0.125" thick), 2"X48" (0.125" thick) and 2, 0.5"X48" solid rods for $61 plus $35 shipping to FL, $103 total with tax. By looking at those plans thats all the steel I'll need.

Edit: I had the wong dia rod

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I got these 2013 chevy tahoe ltz 3rd row leather seats delivered today for $225. So if all goes well, the kids will be safer and dad will only be out $325 and 5 hours of time :laugh:

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I'm using that exact Tahoe seat in my 85, and made brackets based on this guys video
easy peasy cheapy squeezy

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@Mateas Any chance you have drawings/schematics for how you followed that video? I've had that video saved for my future copycat purposes but it would be great if someone else did some more of that legwork already.
 
I do not, however I'll be happy to go take some pics of the brackets and measure anything you want. I'll admit I don't have them IN the truck yet, it's still gutted, so I don't have the holes driled for actual mounting in the truck, it's rather irrelevant though because all you do is literally drill holes, add a fender washer on the bottom side of the hole and bolt them in wherever you want. I'm going to move mine back like he did in the video, give the kiddos more legroom.
 
Mateas said:
I'm using that exact Tahoe seat in my 85, and made brackets based on this guys video
easy peasy cheapy squeezy

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Thanks for the link! I found that video as well and preferred MG'S brackets. Steel should arrive tomorrow, I'll update the thread with progress.
 
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