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Title: new seat covers
Post by: tb3 on April 07 2013, 10:59:34 PM

I'm installing all new PUI seat covers. 
Pulling everything apart, blasting and coating all the frames and stuff.   :rock:
back seat was easy.  the front bucket bottoms where a little more challenging.
but the front seat-backs look like their gonna be a pita trying to fish the hog-rings through the opening on the one end way deep in there to the frame of the seat.
Has anybody else done those before?
Would I be better off with a angled hog-ring pliars?
Other than skinny skinny arms, any tips on doing the bucket seat-backs any easier?
I just have a standard hog ring tool and I'm using stainless hog-rings.

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: Scoobum on April 07 2013, 11:53:24 PM

Check Youtube...lots of great videos on how to go about doing it.

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: earlbrown on April 08 2013, 01:29:57 AM

turn the seat backs inside out and put them on like pillow cases.


oh, and while you're beating the shit out of them installing them...    you're not beating the shit out of them, you're 'stress relieving' them :)

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: Steve Wood on April 08 2013, 09:31:39 AM

Earl uses future porn stars for seat covers...but not lamp shades

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: earlbrown on April 08 2013, 11:20:24 AM

some of them made the transformation right on those very seat covers :)

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: tb3 on April 09 2013, 09:10:04 PM

I guess I'll take a look at youtube as suggested.
I was able to put on the seat bottoms like a pillow case, no problem there, but whats got me so upset and excited about these seat backs is the opening is way too small, and the hog rings have to loop onto the metal rods that go in the seams in the new cover, way up in there.
 

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: tb3 on April 13 2013, 10:13:53 AM

you guys where keeping this from me! :013:
lol! tells me everything I need to know.   :icon_kidra:
 
Installation - 1985-87 Grand National Bucket.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9qVjuWh44#ws)

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: Scoobum on April 14 2013, 10:44:03 AM

Quote from: tb3 on April 13 2013, 10:13:53 AM

you guys where keeping this from me! :013:
lol! tells me everything I need to know.   :icon_kidra:
 
Installation - 1985-87 Grand National Bucket.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9qVjuWh44#ws)

Pretty sure I mentioned Youtube...

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: Steve Wood on April 14 2013, 01:02:16 PM

Quote from: Scoobum on April 14 2013, 10:44:03 AM

Quote from: tb3 on April 13 2013, 10:13:53 AM

you guys where keeping this from me! :013:
lol! tells me everything I need to know.   :icon_kidra:
 
Installation - 1985-87 Grand National Bucket.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9qVjuWh44#ws)

Pretty sure I mentioned Youtube...

You can help some of the people all of the time.  You can help all of the people some of the time, but, you cannot help all of the people all of the time, and then, there is TB3 proving there is an exception to every rule!

Title: Re: new seat covers
Post by: tb3 on April 14 2013, 11:01:38 PM

lol!   
yes, thank you for mentioning youtube, scoob.   :rock:     
that helped get me to where I needed to be.  you rock sir!  :cheers:
hey steve, a friend of mine has one of those bond arm guns you mentioned awhile back.  I'm gonna shoot it sometime in the next couple weeks.
I picked up a ruger 357 lcr for myself for christmas.  I really like it.  fairly concealable, very comfortable. 
I have shot plenty of 38 plus p, but never 357. 
The first 357 round I shot, I immdietly noticed one heck of a differance between the two! lol!
I would've never figured that kinda differance by just comparing  the two bullets side by side.   :068: