Installing new seats
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Racer
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From: Franklin Ohio
Installing new seats
'78 PC with the '79 and up seats. Have new mounted seats, covers and foam. So what is the trick to getting them in?? The bottom is snapped in but when I try to get the back in it seems way too tall. I try pushing down from the top but that makes squeezing it from the sides impossible. What is the secret here??
Burning Brakes
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From: THE OLDER I GET THE BETTER I WAS! NORTHERN ONTARIO
Just did em on my 79 there is a tab on the seat back just pry it out a bit & bend the wire out a touch on foam back it slips in just start one side then do the other...works good.
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Racer
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From: Franklin Ohio
Thanks Dad! I tried that one last night but the bigger problem is the seat back cushion itself. I have to cram it down on top of the new seat bottom then try and push the one side in first. the problem is compressing the cushion enough downward to get the clips to attach on one side. Maybe it had something to do with it being late and everything I touched that whole night fought me every inch of the way. 
I will give it another shot after work and see if some time away helped.
I will give it another shot after work and see if some time away helped.
Rest can be good....mine were real tight as well compressing the foam is tough....it'll go though 
Drifting
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From: 2010 C6 Grand Sport Convertible
Use 2 screwdrivers. One to hold the wire away from the foam, the other to push the wire under the seat pan clip. make sure you have your seat tracks bolted securely to the bottom pans as you kneel on them to fight with the cushions, else the flimsy tracks can and will bend\crack. (Don't ask me how I know, and thank heaven I can weld). Do your bottom cushion first, then tackle the top. Make sure you pry the clips open a bit on the pans. On the seat back cushion, push the lower in place on one side, then the upper on the same. Then do the other side. I did mine in August last year, musta lost 10lbs of sweat and drank many bottles of water. Have a towel handy to clean the sweat off your shiney new sliver seat covers......... 
Mike
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Racer
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From: Franklin Ohio
Thanks Dad and Mike. I did manage to get them in last night. You are so right about the fight it takes. I ended up taking an old flat blade screw driver and grinding a small "V" into it. That seemed to hold onto the rods in the seat foam long enough to bend them out and over the bucket tabs. You are right Mike, I was sweating up a storm and cussing this car every which way. Can't believe it took an hour and a half to do one seat. After that started work on the door panel and realized that the forward arm rest mounting tab inside the door is missing. Guess I took that off when I worked on the window motor. Spent 2 hours going thru boxes looking for it and gave up. 
Burning Brakes
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From: Dixie TN
I notched a flat blade screwdriver and then rounded the outside edges so it wouldn't rip anything. I also took my seats out and worked on them. you only have to take out four bolts per seat and it makes the job much easier. just my 2 cents.
