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2018 Silverado Seats on my 1993 GMC K1500 Single Cab

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As the title says. I came across a set a pretty new 2018 front seats from a Silverado and placed it in my 1993 GMC K1500 single cab truck. I had a bench seat with no back support/no arm rest to buckets with an optional 3rd middle seat console that serves as an arm rest. I have connected power to the 12 volt charger and as soon as I buy a new radio I will connect the USB ports in the center console. 

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Nice upgrade! I wouldn't have thought those seats would fit this body style. The interior of my 2019 seems so much bigger than the interior of my 1991.

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16 hours ago, 91 Shortbed Chevy said:

Nice upgrade! I wouldn't have thought those seats would fit this body style. The interior of my 2019 seems so much bigger than the interior of my 1991.

A lot of the truck width has to do with everything in the doors and pillars with airbags and sensors. The width of the new seats is 57in, same as the bench seat that originally came on the 1993 Sierra/Silverado. 

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Guess i hadn't thought about that. That is definitely a nice upgrade to the factory seats though! The only negative is that you can't get the cool 90's pinstriped fabric!

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Awesome. How bad was mounting the brackets to the floor? I'm looking to swap seats in my 90 and this would be a great upgrade.

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This is some awesome info. Great idea!!!
I'll look into doing this to my 91 rcsb 4x4 that I'm retrostoring.
I'm also considering some updated mirrors as I want power,heated,folding two mirrors that will mount using the factory mounts

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Awesome. How bad was mounting the brackets to the floor? I'm looking to swap seats in my 90 and this would be a great upgrade.
I didn't think it was too bad. I borrowed my buddies welder and welded two strips of 3/16in x 2 in pieces of metal across the bottom. I used a grinder and cutting wheel to remove hooks and nipples on bottom of new seats c33d3696f0663ac21c6f5d2910cb39ca.jpg

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I didn't think it was too bad. I borrowed my buddies welder and welded two strips of 3/16in x 2 in pieces of metal across the bottom. I used a grinder and cutting wheel to remove hooks and nipples on bottom of new seats c33d3696f0663ac21c6f5d2910cb39ca.jpg

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Legit. Thanks man. So you just bolted your stock risers to the flat stock?
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Legit. Thanks man. So you just bolted your stock risers to the flat stock?
No, the risers on the stock seats connect to the flat part of the seat. The risers on the new seats are part of the reclining mechanism. I had to weld a two support bars and drill holes in the support bars. The width of the risers in the stock seats is slightly over 13". The width in the new seats are 16" so the holes I drilled are inside the risers.

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No, the risers on the stock seats connect to the flat part of the seat. The risers on the new seats are part of the reclining mechanism. I had to weld a two support bars and drill holes in the support bars. The width of the risers in the stock seats is slightly over 13". The width in the new seats are 16" so the holes I drilled are inside the risers.

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Got it, thanks for clearing that up. I may have a go at this if I can find some decent pull outs.
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Got it, thanks for clearing that up. I may have a go at this if I can find some decent pull outs.
Look on Facebook Market. I found them for Afor $300. Prices are all over the place so just have patience

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On 12/23/2019 at 1:36 PM, TexasDevilDog said:

No, the risers on the stock seats connect to the flat part of the seat. The risers on the new seats are part of the reclining mechanism. I had to weld a two support bars and drill holes in the support bars. The width of the risers in the stock seats is slightly over 13". The width in the new seats are 16" so the holes I drilled are inside the risers.

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Do you have a picture of how you mounted the NBS seats onto the OBS risers?  (I’m having a hard time picturing what you stated above)

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TEXAS! love the seats you put in to your standard cab chevy. Does the 2018 seats need to be out of a standard cab vehicle?  Your correct there are many of them on marketplace 

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