The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Interiors Bench seat: am I missing something?

This truck was in pieces when I got it. I had to piece together parts for the seat, I just got the cushions from Tophat. From what I can see the frame gets bolted to the Riser that's in the cab, the back seat cushion goes on to the frame first then the bottom cushion slides in. My question, is the bottom cushion just held in place by the back cushion? And how does the seat slide when the frame is bolted to the riser? I don't get it. I saw in another thread, a spring on both sides of the frame. It's a 52 GMC, seat frame from a 50, cushions from I think a 49.

Your missing the sliders that the seat moves on. Top half bolts to your seat bottom half to the seat riser on the floor. It has the lock release lever on drivers side. The cable keeps the seat parallel.

Oh geez, something else I have to try to find. I didn't see anything in the catalogs. I did more refined search and found a thread that someone repaired those things

Maybe I'll eliminate the sliders, that'll drop the seat down a couple inches. I've seen several threads about steering wheel clearance to legs not being so good, just a thought

Found new tracks, about $150, not too bad.

So the bottom cushion is only held in place by the pressure from the back cushion?

I don’t think your bottom springs are right for that seat frame. My seat bottom is flat and has brackets that hook onto the frame when you push it back under the back cushion.

What he said.

Here's a pic that shows the seat cushion brackets that slip behind the front bar on the seat frame to hold it in place.

Pauld,

Unless you're really fat, Clearance is fine with the steering wheel. In fact it's comparable to other old vehicles I drive.

Lowering your seat a couple inches will make it harder to see over the hood and steering wheel, in my opinion.

I just went out and measured the clearance between the bottom of the steering wheel and the seat cushion on the '50 3100 and the '76 Ford F-150.

The Chevy has 8" of clearance and the Ford has 4" of clearance. Chevy cushions are worn out so when reupholstered it will probably be about 6".

Well it seems to fit together ok. Since the cushion set only cost me $100, I'm going to make them work. If I weld a few tabs on the front rail, that should hold the cushion in place. Might take me a couple months to get it all done, but I will post results some day. Thanks for the help

If my trailer wasn't buried in snow (we got ~4" over the last day or so ) , I'd get you the dimensions for those brackets off my seat.

Dude it is hitting 90° at my place today. That's okay, I am going to buy new sliders

I was the person who wrote about repairing the sliders. If you work on them, they actually do a pretty fair job. If you don't they're pretty lousy and if they've come apart can be dangerous...your seat can move around when you don't want it to.

I think I'll buy a pair of new sliders, my seat moves enough already 😛