Thank alot Sarge !
for the info I will tried this weekend and let you now

Normand

P.S: good luck for tomorrow.take car.


|UPDATED|1/29/2004 8:30:49 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|

My brother-in-law gave me a tip that saved me A LOT of time (and foul language! ) when I redid the seats last summer. Using some scrap pieces of 2X4, 2X6, and 2X8 lumber I was able to kneel on the seat frame and compress the new foam while rehooking the wires and hog rings.

Its kind of hard to explain, but stack up pieces of the wood so that the seat part you're working on barely touches the floor when placed upside down on the wood. You want to line up an edge of the wood with the wires. Then lay another piece of wood across the seat frame and gently kneel on it using your weight to compress the foam. After getting all the wires hooked and hog rings fastened release the pressure on the frame and the cover will be perfect.

After I had the seats back in I took "The Toy" to a shop to have a new soft top installed. The owner noticed the new covers and asked where I had the seats redone. I told him I had done them myself. He paid me a complement by saying that they looked pretty darn good and admitted that Vette seats were hard to do.

Just take your time and you'll be happy with the results.

Ok Jim !
Thank's for the tip
when I start reading your line I was in the impression that you where building a garage HA ! HA ! ( joke )


it is a good idea with this tip I will be able to put the right pressure without any problem by myself good good
than's alot Jim
Normand

Normand,

If you heat them be careful! You can get the cover to hot and it will get a slick gloss look to it that will not come out! When the cover is hot, never rub over it with anything either!

The best way to do the covers is to take one back apart and then put it toghther, then do the other side. This way if you loose track of where the rings go, you can go to the side that is still together. Then do the bottoms.

The covers should be installed at room temp. and not need to be heated assuming the foam is in good shape.

Regards,

Willcox

WOW ! I am impress thank's Willcox.

Normand

Instead of the lumber idea to compress the foam, I took a piece of stiff wire (like a coat hanger) about 8 inches long and bent a small hook on the end. Stick the hook through the back of your seat foam in a hole where you will be using a hog ring to attach the cover rods to the foam/frame. Hook it into the rod sewn into the seat cover. Pull it hard enough to pull the rod through the crevice in the seat foam and into position to fasten with the hogs ring. Then all you have to do is fasten it. Not too difficult and hard to get lost. Dive in there!

I don't know about anyone else, but I would like to see Willcox chime in a bit more often. How about it?

Ken Styer