Bucket seat renew

[ak diesel driver]

I got a like new passenger seat and am planning on swapping bottoms to my drivers side to give it a freshen up and replace the worn outer edge. Anyone ever disassemble one? everything is pretty straight forward except for the plastic bushing for the seat back pivot. trying to figure out how to get it apart without breaking the plastic bushing.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Here's a pic of the pivot bushing.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Got it! The trick was to pry from the opposition side while carefully wedging open the 4 corners of the bushing.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Old and new cushions. The actual seat cover is attached to the foam, at least the seams on the seat surface.

 

[3500GMC]

Truck seats take a beating. For a '96 seat it's not that bad really.

Maybe a few more detail pics and this would be a good sticky thread for the tech library.

 

[ak diesel driver]

So I had to trim some foam

Then I had to use some self drilling screws to attach the cover

All in all not too bad a job for $50

 

[ak diesel driver]

if any mod would like to move that last pic up to where it should be I'd appreciate it.

 

[JayTheCPA]

Nice!

What was the donor? Or will any GMTX00 style work with a little trim?

Or did you just replace the fabric and not the foam?

 

[ak diesel driver]

Fabric is glued to the foam.