My seat split along the rear seam.
Looking for a new seat proved fruitless. 78 straight bench seats are rare on ebay, and a trip to Sportwheel in Jordan was a bust. All the seat pans were rusted away to pretty much nothing. I don't want to convert to an 80/81 style seat, I like the bench look better.
I decided to recover it and my wife said she would sew the new cover. The pan is rusty, but I thought I could just strip and POR-15 it. Then I realized it had a crack. No big deal, I thought.
And then I took the seat off. First, I broke two mounting bolts. Then, I took off the skin and realized that it wasn't just the crack. The edge of the pan is rusted in several places with some chunks completely missing.
So, I set out to find a new pan.
I got one on eBay for $20. Looked good in the pictures. And then when I got it I saw it had a crack in the same place as mine, but the crack is epoxied over. At least the rest of it is in more decent shape than mine...
Looking for a new seat proved fruitless. 78 straight bench seats are rare on ebay, and a trip to Sportwheel in Jordan was a bust. All the seat pans were rusted away to pretty much nothing. I don't want to convert to an 80/81 style seat, I like the bench look better.
I decided to recover it and my wife said she would sew the new cover. The pan is rusty, but I thought I could just strip and POR-15 it. Then I realized it had a crack. No big deal, I thought.
And then I took the seat off. First, I broke two mounting bolts. Then, I took off the skin and realized that it wasn't just the crack. The edge of the pan is rusted in several places with some chunks completely missing.
So, I set out to find a new pan.
I got one on eBay for $20. Looked good in the pictures. And then when I got it I saw it had a crack in the same place as mine, but the crack is epoxied over. At least the rest of it is in more decent shape than mine...
