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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 11:27 PM
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In my S10, It has the stock bucket seat. A buddy of mine just bought a diesel that has a Chevy 4dr cab on it. Its either a 89-91 cab. But he doesnt need anything in that cab, so I was thinking of taking his front seats because they are Captains Chairs. How hard would it be to convert them to my truck? Can I take my current seats off the frame they on currently on, and just put the Captains on them? Or do i need to make my own bracket since the frame on the Captains are lower them my current ones. Any ideas?
 
Old Nov 22, 2012 | 11:30 PM
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youd have to fab up the brackets,its not going to bolt in. Now,if you want bolt in get some seats out of a sunfire. Swap tracks with your old seats onto the new seats and they go right in. I have em in mine. For anyone else reading this and thinking "oh cool" you must have bucket seats already. it wont work in something that had a bench seat.
 
Old Nov 22, 2012 | 11:34 PM
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Fullsize seats in a s10 are gonna be like 10lbs of crap in a 5lb bag. Gonna be all custom on the brackets and the 2 seats are gonna be huge in there. I'd highly suggest getting some seats out of something closer proportioned to the size of a s-series. I have sunfire seats in my blazer and love them. Camaro/fireturd seats also fit and look good. Both of those require almost no mods if using 1st gen s-10 bucket seat brackets. It literally took me 30 minutes to put the sunfire seats in my 87 and most of that time was spent with a vacuum cleaning the new seats and the carpet in the blazer while I had good access.
 

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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 11:20 PM
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I mostly just want chairs that have armrests because im lazy and my floor console is at the same level of where my buttox is.
 
Old Nov 27, 2012 | 10:21 AM
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94 blazers have taller center consoles. You could also put a 2nd gen console in it easily. I had the same complaint until I found out gm raised them in 94 so I swapped the one in my 87 out.
 
Old Nov 28, 2012 | 10:42 AM
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Sweetness. Ill have to do to the junk yard and grab one. What did you pick your sunfire seats up for?
 
Old Nov 28, 2012 | 12:16 PM
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I stole mine but I go to that yard regularly and the stitching had torn apart. $25 and about 1 hour worth of work taking the covers off and sewing them up mine were good as new. Helps I helped a buddy in an upholstery shop in highschool on my days off from my other job. In all honestly I've seen others get seats for $50-100 range that I thought was a good deal.
 
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