Neon Seats

[Stephenw]

Attach the two triangle brackets to the Neon seat bottoms by putting a bolt in through the side.

[Stephenw]

Adjust the Samurai tracks so that the old bolt holes are 15 3/16" apart and square to the seat at the rear. Then carefully mark the track positions on the triangle brackets.

[Stephenw]

Remove the tracks and the triangle brackets from the seat. Spot weld the brackets to the tracks. Then reassmble the seat bottom. Install it in your truck and test the operation of the tracks through their full range of motion.

[Stephenw]

When you are satisfied the track is working correctly, take the bottom back out, disassemble, and finish weld. Put it all back together and install.

[Stephenw]

Passenger side details...

[Stephenw]

The passenger side has latching mechanisms on both sides of the track. First remove the link which connects both sides of latch mechanism.

[Stephenw]

Remove the cover from the release mechanism.

[Stephenw]

The release mechanism that goes under the seat  is attached with an E clip and a screw. This cable is what allows the seat to slide forward when released from the rear. The second picture shows the cable on the bottom of the track.

[Stephenw]

The passenger tracks are then removed similar to the driver's side.

[Stephenw]

I used the same method as on the driver's side to fit, spot weld, test, and finish weld the tracks.

[Stephenw]

I drilled and tapped the Neon hinge to install the Samurai release cable. I cut the handle from the Samurai hinge and used a crimp splice to hook it to the track release cable. These were seats from a 2 door Neon, so the seat back tilt was already built in. The cable release is only to slide the seat bottom forward.

[Stephenw]

The completed passenger side seat bottom assembly...

[Stephenw]

These seats are a huge improvement in ride quality. A very worthwhile modification.

[Zugar]

Steve,

Whew!  You went to a lot of work to mod the Sammy sliders to the Neon seats!

My sliders weren't that great and the Neon ones were in great shape.  I found some really nice 2005 Neon seats, seat belts, etc for a total of $48 and just got through installing them into my 1988 Sammy.  You are correct, what a great improvement in ride comfort.

So I left the Neon sliders on, used a 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 angle iron 3/16 thick and 18 inches long bolted across the front of floor pan to accomodate the Neon front mounting tabs hanging down and bolted them to the angle iron.  On the back I put in one inch spacers, drilled two new holes, bolted down through the spacers and was done.  With minor surgery I was able to use the Neon seat belts which were only 4 years old compared to my 21 years worn Sammy belts.

Zugar

[One Sick Puppy]

This is an awesome thread. Great write up.

My question to Stephen: Why did you opt to use the Samurai tracks rather than bolting the seats up as Zugar did?

And Zugar: Can you post some pics of the brackets and spacers you made?