98 silverado ext.cab rear seat lift complete!!!

[SumHungL0]

seat is lifted.... woo hoo!!!
heres a before photo of the seat after i finished my box.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/box.jpg
this is one of the seat brackets that i had my buddy josh weld 4 inches on.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/original_bracket5.jpg
this is after the kick ass welding, thanks again josh.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/modified_bracket1.jpg
had to cut some tin out for the new bracket to fit. you can see the old hole below.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/driver_bracket2.jpg
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/driver_bracket1.jpg
heres the panel before the new hole was cut.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/driverside_panel.jpg
heres with the hole cut and panel in place.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/modified_panel.jpg
heres the other bracket.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/passenger_bracket1.jpg
and finely with the seat back on...
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/installed_seat_up.jpg
with the seat down you can see how much space i have now, before the seat sat on the speaker box.
http://home.insightbb.com/~sumhungl0/installed_seat_down1.jpg
thanks again to josh for the welding, guess i better get to work on my new speaker box..... :D

[ksstang]

That turned out pretty nice!!

Kyle

[IH8FORD]

man too bad it wont work for a non thrid door truck or i would have you make me some lol. i bet you could make some money if you made a couple of sets up.

[ianbroste]

thats a good idea for protecting your subs from being stolen. im sure theres a way that you could clean it up a bit though. howd you do it though.

[Grunmn]

man too bad it wont work for a non thrid door truck or i would have you make me some lol. i bet you could make some money if you made a couple of sets up.

:word: to that

[cowboyon24's]

awesome job

[rjwms]

Looks like the start of something good.

However, with the seat raised 4 inches...isn't your head a little close to the ceiling?

[mcfly]

looks like a pretty good welding job right there. I'd get the speakerbox painted or carpeted so it doesnt stick out that bad

[dueprocess]

looks like a pretty good welding job right there. I'd get the speakerbox painted or carpeted so it doesnt stick out that bad

he said he was building a new one...... :twak: <-- j/j

[dueprocess]

good job, like they said you get some market for those and you could make a few bucks!!!!!

[nebraskaz71]

I'd buy one if u didn't have to trim plastic :)

[SumHungL0]

Thanks everyone!

i didnt like the fact i had to trim my plastic panel either, but its my truck, may as well make it the way i want it.

if i had a welder and a bigger garage i would make some extra sets of brackets up for people, but a one stall garage doesnt quite cut it. been looking for a bigger house anyway though.

4 inches did make a big difference, but my kids are the only ones who sit back there, and even that doesnt happen too much. basically i go to work and come home with it. but the lift really helps as far as i can see, when i sat in the back before it seemed to have me sitting low and my knees were almost to my chest.

as far as i can see, i think this can be done on 2, 3, and 4 door pickups. the brackets are all basicly the same.

didnt know if anybody had seen my chain on there. i grew up in the hood. cant trust nobody! all i did is bolt chain to the underside of my seat, and run it to a set of eyebolts, then padlock it up. cheap anti-theft for the paranoid. :bling:

now i need to figure out how to fabricate boxes and consoles out of fiberglass. but ive never done any fiberglass work so i gotta find some literature or tutorials. just gotta dream for now.... thanks again everyone! :patriot:

[belmont]

dang that's alot more work than lifting a NBS seat. good job.

[LyaecZ71]

Are you sure the seat will be properly anchored with that thin piece of mild steel holding it together? The old bracket had basically 2x the metal that contacted with the floor bracket footprint. I was contemplating doing it this way but since I can't fold my rear seat up anyway because of the amp rack behind it I just made 2" spacer pieces out of 4 pieces of 1/8" mild steel with 2 holes on each side and used them to lift the actual seat cushion off of that block shaped pivot point you had to drill holes in the plastic for.

[mcfly]

he said he was building a new one...... :twak: <-- j/j
:think:

:run:

[Exalted512]

thats looks really good...i wish it was easier or i would do that for mine...
as far as fiberglassing goes...
http://chris.pfharlock.com/glass/
-Cody