7g seats, bought 7g seats tryin to install Options

[wyzzardcelica]

anybody know if there's a way to put the 7g leather seats into my 97? i bought them on a whim and obviously they are not going to fit, anyone kno if theres someone out there who has done this successfully? thanks.

[AMCMoe]

I was originally going to take pictures but it's really not hard so I didn't bother making a write up. Here's the general idea of what you have to do-

Remove the 6g seats from the car. Get a flat head screw driver and start by removing the plastics coverings on each side of the seat. Here is where all the mounting tabs are-



To get the height-adjustment knob off, take a rag and pull it across the c-clip to remove it. (You can see it in the picture) Or a flathead screw driver works too.

Then remove the brackets from the seat- 4 bolts on the bottom, and there are maybe 2 on each side of the back cushion. Once the bolts are out the seat should more or less come apart from the bracket.

There is a bar that runs through the bottom of the back-cushion for the 'reclining' function. This is the hardest part (you'll see) of the whole swap when you're putting it back together.

Once you have the cushions and brackets removed, start by removing the metal support from the bottom of the seat. There are hog-ties and a plastic 'rail' they you need to remove.



Once they're removed, the metal support piece will come away from the cushion. You need to swap this piece from the 6g cushion to the 7g cushion. The bottom cushion of the two seats is identical, but the "metal support piece" has the two front holes in a different place, that is why you need to swap it from the old 6g seat to the 7g seat (so you can bolt the seat to the 6g brackets).

Once you have that swapped, you can start putting the seat back together. The bar that runs through the bottom of the back-cushion can be tricky to put in without the seat falling apart. It helps if you thread the bolts in just slightly to keep the cushion in place while you're aligning that bar. (you'll see what I'm talking about when you go to do it)

Once the bar is back in, tighten the 8 seat bracket bolts and test the reclining function to make sure you got the bar in there correctly. If it works, you're ready to start on the other front seat.

Hope these instructions help. Post back if you need any help.

[hokuten3]

When you get to the part putting the seat back together, the back of the seat doesn't have any place to screw it in since we are using the 6g brackets. so what do you do there?

I was originally going to take pictures but it's really not hard so I didn't bother making a write up. Here's the general idea of what you have to do-

Remove the 6g seats from the car. Get a flat head screw driver and start by removing the plastics coverings on each side of the seat. Here is where all the mounting tabs are-



To get the height-adjustment knob off, take a rag and pull it across the c-clip to remove it. (You can see it in the picture) Or a flathead screw driver works too.

Then remove the brackets from the seat- 4 bolts on the bottom, and there are maybe 2 on each side of the back cushion. Once the bolts are out the seat should more or less come apart from the bracket.

There is a bar that runs through the bottom of the back-cushion for the 'reclining' function. This is the hardest part (you'll see) of the whole swap when you're putting it back together.

Once you have the cushions and brackets removed, start by removing the metal support from the bottom of the seat. There are hog-ties and a plastic 'rail' they you need to remove.



Once they're removed, the metal support piece will come away from the cushion. You need to swap this piece from the 6g cushion to the 7g cushion. The bottom cushion of the two seats is identical, but the "metal support piece" has the two front holes in a different place, that is why you need to swap it from the old 6g seat to the 7g seat (so you can bolt the seat to the 6g brackets).

Once you have that swapped, you can start putting the seat back together. The bar that runs through the bottom of the back-cushion can be tricky to put in without the seat falling apart. It helps if you thread the bolts in just slightly to keep the cushion in place while you're aligning that bar. (you'll see what I'm talking about when you go to do it)

Once the bar is back in, tighten the 8 seat bracket bolts and test the reclining function to make sure you got the bar in there correctly. If it works, you're ready to start on the other front seat.

Hope these instructions help. Post back if you need any help.