[ZeGermanHam]

This weekend I disassembled the passenger seat now that I have decided I'm going to overhaul the bucket seats myself. Between the information that is available here and on YouTube, I now feel confident that I can refinish them to a high standard. It goes without saying, disassembling 55 year old seats is pretty gross!

Here's what I started with. It's the original upholstery, tearing in a few places but I've seen worse.


Lower cover panels had some surface rust.


Yuck. Can't say I didn't expect it, though.


All torn down. No broken springs! I'm hoping to have the same luck with the driver seat, but it of course sees a lot more wear & tear, so fingers crossed.


The seat tracks had a healthy amount of surface rust on them. Since there is no easy way to disassemble these for sandblasting (don't want sand in the bearings), I submerged them in Evaporust for about 24 hours.


The Evaporst worked like magic!


All cleaned up and sliding like new again. I know they weren't painted like this from the factory, but I'm not building a points car and I'd rather they not rust again.


My shop recently got a new blast cabinet. Great timing!


Ah, so fresh & clean.


Also blasted, primed, and painted the lower covers and the seat back panel.




Still about 3 weeks out until I (supposedly) receive my seat foam which is on backorder, but I'm pretty excited about this aspect of the project. Can't wait to have a couple of fresh buckets to install.