Help with seats!

[Shorte01]

I need some help with my driver seat. After years of supporting my large frame, it's starting to give way. It's to the point now that I'm concerned about my safety if I get rear-ended, because I won't be sitting square to the impact because my seat has started to twist back to the right. I'm having a heck of a time finding replacement seats from parts yards, and nothing OEM online. Has anyone had any luck finding a stock replacement for their seats? And if not, which aftermarket brand did you use, and was it just the seat, or the front buckets and center console? Thanks for any input.

I'm driving a 98 1500, extended cab. Front buckets, power driver's seat.

[DirtyGmc]

i ran into this issue a while back and was having the same problems. Mine had a nasty ghetto lean to the right like yours. I checked all the local yards and couldnt find anything, then actually considered OEM from the dealer but they dont sell the actual seats, only select parts. I couldnt find any at the time, but look on ebay, theres a couple OEM used pairs on there.

In the end, in my situation, i bought those Smittybilt C5 seats made for jeeps. Im getting sick of them, poor quality and i hate leather these days, so im in the market for either a stock gray bucket or ive been looking at suspension seats.

[Shorte01]

Well you may be in luck for the gray bucket seats. I was checking Ebay and found exactly what I wanted, except they're not tan. The auction number is 130139196640. Take a look at them, maybe they'll work for you.

[DirtyGmc]

thanks for the heads up.

[DirtyGmc]

found these for ya this mornin

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevy-GMC-Truck-Bucket-Seats_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33701QQihZ011QQitemZ320146048608QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

[Shorte01]

Thanks for the help, definitely look nice.

[79Shortbox]

My buddy is kind of a bigger dude 5'11 3 bills. His driver's side seat frame bent until it broke, so we stripped the cloth off of it, pulled the padding back (to keep it out of harms way), and cut away his old broken frame on both sides of the seat, and welded new thicker steel for the frame uprights. Put it all back together, good as new. You might think about that if you have a buddy that welds. They don't even need to be the pretiest welds because nobody will ever see it, a good job to practice on, too.