different front seats in a suburban?

[HAZZARDJOHN]

This weekend I discovered why my bucket seat in my burb is so effin uncomfortable. Someone bent the hell out of the seat back. I have spent a couple day looking for a replacement with no luck. Is there a seat that goes in these without having to cut up the floor that is bigger and more supportive?

Lot's of info for pickups but not burbs.

Thanks!

 

[HAZZARDJOHN]

Anyone? What about grey cloth GMT400 seats? They look more comfortable and they kinda match the rear seats

 

[89Suburban]

I'm watching this as well.

 

[J Knight]

Some burbs had a conversion package with big captain chairs up front. Maybe you could find some on CL.

 

[bucket]

Anyone? What about grey cloth GMT400 seats? They look more comfortable and they kinda match the rear seats

I've wondered that myself. Never tried it though because the stock seats are plenty comfy for me.

 

[Old77]

As flat as the burb floor is I'd bet you could find something and make it work without cutting up the floor in any way. I don't have any definite details but I'd encourage you to find a seat you like and then start brain storming. Maybe find a torn up one for super cheap to play around with then once you have it all planned out seek out the nicer set.

 

[bucket]

As flat as the burb floor is I'd bet you could find something and make it work without cutting up the floor in any way. I don't have any definite details but I'd encourage you to find a seat you like and then start brain storming. Maybe find a torn up one for super cheap to play around with then once you have it all planned out seek out the nicer set.

The Burb floors actually have a big giant hump in the floor, very similar to the pickups. But what you did with your truck would actually work very well in a Burb because there's no fuel tanks under there. But I do think that any seat that can be used without it's original tracks can probably be adapted to the stock Burb seat tracks.

Hopefully someone will post some pictures for everyone to see

 

[Old77]

That's surprising. I wonder why GM put big humps in there with no reason to so it since the gas tank is in back

 

[bucket]

That's surprising. I wonder why GM put big humps in there with no reason to so it since the gas tank is in back

The front floor is the same as crew cabs and they probably designed crew cabs to use as much single cab sheetmetal as possible. But they also designed the K5 with the flat floor at the same time... so I have no clue why Burbs didn't have flat floors like K5's.

 

[Old77]

Yeah that's the reason I made the assumption that the floor was flat was because of the K5 floor. well okie dokie then

 

[89Suburban]

Just one more argument on my side for Old77 to get a square Burb to tinker with.

 

[Old77]

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[HAZZARDJOHN]

A friend of mine said he has a rust free southern 89 suburban for sale today. Asked me if I was interested. I know nothing about it other than what I just typed, maybe Old77 needs it

 

[HotRodPC]

Yep, the Burb floor pan is much more like a pickup. I'd imagine due to the same mold maybe as the Crew Cabs. It's the K5 Blazers that have the flater floor pan. This is also why Burb buckets are easily retrofitted into pick ups.

But yes, I'm watching to see how you handle this too. You just might have to Guinea Pig this one for us and be the test subject buddy. Sorry.

 

[notverrysmart]

I got some pics that may help. My original thought was to cut the floor pan from the gmt400 and fit it into the SB burb, but changing the tracks seems easier to me. Especially considering that my floor pans are pretty much rust free. I had a bench seat so I cant physically compare tracks between the two. But I can say the gmt400 seats are extremely comfortable both to me and everybody that has sat in there.
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If you need better pics let me know and ill try to get them.