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Help me out here guys…

I have a chance to buy a pair of ’93 S10 Blazer buckets for $35. I have not driven out there to see them but they are allegedly in good shape. The drawback is that they are from a 4 door so they recline but do not fold forward, and I want to put them in my panel. Does anybody know what’s involved in making them fold forward? Is there hardware I have to swap or can I just change a bracket, remove a bolt, file off a stop, etc?

Thanks

Well Brad I have a 93 S10 Blazer so I know what your talking about. I would not try to modify them to fold forward( that is just me). However for $35 if the don't work put them in the garage on some milk crates as a place to take a load off.

Why not look for a older 2 door blazer and have the seats re done?

Good Luck

Brad,
I would pass on them and keep looking. If your garage is like mine space is at a premium and storing something that is not going to work as you want it is just going to take up more space until you either sell it for a loss or dump it.

Be patient, what you need will come your way.

The last seats I made this mod to were out of a late '60s Rambler. On them it was just a case of pull out one bolt, remove the stop and throw it away. They were identical to the folding variety except there was an extra piece bolted to the bracket to keep them from folding forward. Since they (being out of a Rambler) were recliners they were already hinged, and it was a no brainer for Rambler to use the same parts with only a minor mod to keep them from folding forward.

I was hoping that Chevrolet would have as much sense as American Motors and do something simple like that. I'll probably have to drive out there and look at them. Maybe I can see how they work without a lot of disassembly.