Yeah, so... as usual, we forgot to take pictures when taking the seats apart. So I had to search and look at as many pictures as possible, until I realized I had a 3rd (spare) Fiero seat (duh) and looked at that. So I figured I'd take a picture in case anyone else forgets to remember where the springs go, and hopefully you find this:






... note, this is the Passenger side seat.

Huh ?

Do you mean short small spring, longer small spring ? Small and huge is diameter ?

Good info Todd. When I took my seats out for a Mr Mike's retrofit, I had to adjust the seat trac lock slots, to align the seat to set angled correctly. If I recall correctly, one can not just use the front slots on both sides, or the back slots.

quote Originally posted by cliffw: Huh ? Do you mean short small spring, longer small spring ? Small and huge is diameter ? Good info Todd. When I took my seats out for a Mr Mike's retrofit, I had to adjust the seat trac lock slots, to align the seat to set angled correctly. If I recall correctly, one can not just use the front slots on both sides, or the back slots.

The "longer small spring" actually has a larger diameter than the smallest of the three springs. It's both longer, and has a slightly larger diameter than the smallest spring. But yeah...


We were able to get the seats to bolt in properly. I adjusted both rails to the rear-most position... as in (if installed) the seat would be all the way pushed forward. They have the smallest hole (the front holes have some wiggle room that allows them to be adjustable). I had her place the rear of the rails in first... loosely put the nuts on, and then she sat in it, slide the seat all the way back... and then I kind of man-handled it into the front holes. She hand-tightened those nuts, and then used an impact gun to tighten them down. We slide the seat forward again, and then tightened down the rear nuts.


The floor boards were actually in really, really good shape... no rust at all. We did see a couple of places where there was a little dent in the floorboard from the previous owner likely hitting something. This happened to me once, I hit a coconut on the highway and man, it put a huge-ass dent in my floor board which I banged back out with a rubber mallet.

So, she just went around with a plastic-covered dead-blow and beat out any little dents she found on both floor boards.

Wanted to add a bit more...

We were having a hard time finding a good seat bottom for the driver's side that wasn't damaged or destroyed in some way. Mr.Mike recommends adding material to the bolsters to add some of the cushion back... but what we found was all the drivers seats that were available to us, had the cushion / foam actually damaged and split on the driver's side seat bolster. No matter how much material you added, it wouldn't fix the fact that the bolster foam was split.

I was trying to think of some glue that would fix it, and I decided to use Gorilla Glue. I remember that when dry, this glue is still somewhat flexible, but foams out in order to really attach itself to everything you're putting it on.





It came out pretty good...







Note: I had to use packing tape to pull the bolster back in. Before we glued it, the bolster laid almost totally flat, it was horrible. But with it glued, it's unbelievably strong now.

The real issue is the foam is failing and falling out of the lower frame.

Mr Mike recommends putting straps across the bottom of the seat to keep the foam in. I used straps and burlap.

Note I put tape on the metal straps and later added the burlap between the foam and straps to displace the pressure points.

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quote Originally posted by hyperv6: The real issue is the foam is failing and falling out of the lower frame. Mr Mike recommends putting straps across the bottom of the seat to keep the foam in. I used straps and burlap. Note I put tape on the metal straps and later added the burlap between the foam and straps to displace the pressure points.

Oh man, I hadn't thought of that. It doesn't seem like this seat is having that issue yet... but good to think about.

Quick question... what exactly is the little rubber "scraper" used for? I put it back when we re-assembled the seat (as you can see above), but I'm not really sure what it's supposed to do. Is it supposed to prevent things from going under the seat and getting stuck back there?

My daughter found over $10 dollars in change behind the driver's seat... haha...

l had the seat-sag problem back a few years ago....but first up was upper side bolster was torn from "rolling out of the car" (don't do that now- turn and then pull myself up out of seat)...was able to locate a passenger seat-cover in great shape and had it installed (yes- the cover will fit either side)

l mentioned to upholsterer that seat bottom was sagging- so he installed webbing straps across bottom- so now l no longer have a "Dip in the driver's seat" (Although l haven't fixed the "Loose nut behind the wheel".....)

Here is a diagram of what was done;

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quote Originally posted by cvxjet: l had the seat-sag problem back a few years ago....but first up was upper side bolster was torn from "rolling out of the car" (don't do that now- turn and then pull myself up out of seat)...was able to locate a passenger seat-cover in great shape and had it installed (yes- the cover will fit either side) l mentioned to upholsterer that seat bottom was sagging- so he installed webbing straps across bottom- so now l no longer have a "Dip in the driver's seat" (Although l haven't fixed the "Loose nut behind the wheel".....) Here is a diagram of what was done;

Now go back and put burlap between the foam straps and foam. If not the foam can rip where the straps are. I used the juit burlap shops use under seats for springs.