Micaiahfied

picked up my new (to me) seats today, $100 out of a 99 qc and all i have to do is shop vac a little dust! guess it pays to have a nieghboor that owns a salvage yard! (http://www.tennesseeautosalvage.com/) now for the install, i posted about this a little bit ago and was told i needed to make some brackets, i will be measuring and trying to figure it out but if someone has done this and has the sizes that i need to make the bracket that would be great!

also, if anyone else does this, be careful when you clean, metal cut through the paper towel and pretty far into my finger so now i need to clean off a little blood as well lol.
(i will get some pic soon)

fearthedeere

of the seats or your finger. JK good find.

fearthedeere

hey i was lookin on that site and i notice there are some rims there. could ya find out what size they are. I think im gonna change rims till i got enough money to get some 17s and new tires

fearthedeere

oh and on the brackets im just throwin out ideas but depening on how the seat lines up is just weld a couple of plates on the exsistin bracket and mark and then drill holes. Just my 2cents

Micaiahfied

lol... not to be a jerk, i've been looking for rims too... so you say they have some huh? ok, you found them first, give me a little more info and i'll find out what they are. maybe i can bring them up if i try to give you a hand with that HG

fearthedeere

If i get new rim id have some 16.5s american racin outlaw 2s for sale

fearthedeere

http://www.tennesseeautosalvage.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi is where i found the wheels

Micaiahfied

hey fear that link didn't work for me...

ok on to the install.... these seats look HUGE(in the truck). here are the measurements

Old... 10.5" front to back and 44" from side to side (seat cushion measures 57" or so)

New... both 12" and 15.5" (two in the back one in the front) and about 54" side to side... seat measured like 60" across but i think it was folded out towards the door.

for those who have put seats in,
how far back did you mount them?
when centered i assume you drilled a new hole after building the braket on the outside?

help please, i'd rather not put the old seats back in.

timb

Hey Mic. I dont know if those seats are the same as the 96 seats that I put in mine, but if they are the front outside legs bolt right to the floor and the back inside legs do as well. the outside back legs require 3 inches of some sort of spacer. and the two inside front legs require 3/4 inch spacers. I just put the seats in the truck and guessed about where I wanted them in the back position, squared them up by looking throught the windows using the door posts as a line of sight. then drilled the holes and bolted them in. I assume that yours are electric so just use a jumper wire for power and one for ground and plug them into the connector with a female spade on each wire to see which wire make the seats go the right direction.after you are sure where your power wire goes plug the wires in permanent like and drive away with a happy ****. I hope this helps ya out. Tim

Micaiahfied

they actually aren't electric, i'm happy about that. and for a 99 i also didn't have to have power to use the seatbelts. they are QC seats so i think they are different than the 96's. so you had to drill the hole wider than the original right?