Air Ride Seat Questions

[Northfork]

Stuck with a dang cold-allergy combo that is kicking my tail. I am going to follow this one. Thanks for sharing!

 

[DBCooper]

Well....clutch just went out as of yesterady, so seats are on hold. MWilson, will still be interested in your install when you do it. Thanks for the advice!

Dan

 

[mwilson]

Well....clutch just went out as of yesterady, so seats are on hold. MWilson, will still be interested in your install when you do it. Thanks for the advice!

Dan

Well that just blows.....sorry to hear that.

I will try not to bring up just how comfortable they are,,,,,,,too many times anyways........

But seriously if the clutch job doesn't completely drain your reserve or when you recover a bit you could do one at a time....I almost did that....

 

[mwilson]

Update....left for Washington DC last Wednesday, get a text last Friday that my seats are at the dealership...that worked out well....

Maybe I'll get them installed next weekend..

 

[DBCooper]

Sweet. Hoping you're planning on documenting the installation? Some of us will be living vicariously through you for a little while.

 

[mwilson]

We have just returned from our trip, 1500 miles plus towing and then about 250 miles of side trips. Wife looks at me yesterday and says "Did you tell me about the new seats when we left just so I WOULD really not give you any crap about the price after 1700 miles of sheer torture??? If so your plan worked!! Get them in this damn truck!! My hip can't take another another ride in these pieces of **!#%**!!!!!! """


Mission Accomplished!!!!:-laf

 

[Motorhead]

We have just returned from our trip, 1500 miles plus towing and then about 250 miles of side trips. Wife looks at me yesterday and says "Did you tell me about the new seats when we left just so I WOULD really not give you any crap about the price after 1700 miles of sheer torture??? If so your plan worked!! Get them in this damn truck!! My hip can't take another another ride in these pieces of **!#%**!!!!!! """


Mission Accomplished!!!!:-laf

A WELL crafted strategy! Who said WOMEN were smarter than MEN????

 

[mwilson]

Sweet. Hoping you're planning on documenting the installation? Some of us will be living vicariously through you for a little while.

Yes I definitely will document with pictures. I am going to install heat as well. National will not build this particular model with heat so I have take these apart and do it myself. I have installed heat in the existing seats but I don't think I can move the pads to the new seats. Not sure that I would want to anyways..So need to order a pair of seat heater kits. Used the Rostra brand that Geno's sells for the factory seats and have been quite satisfied with them so will probably repeat the purchase..

 

[mwilson]

A WELL crafted strategy! Who said WOMEN were smarter than MEN????

As others on here have stated

"Even a blind squirrel gets a nut on occasion...."

 

[mwilson]

Seats are here, raining too hard and playing catch up from 8 days off for me to go to the warehouse and see them. I did just order a pair of Rostra Heat Kits from Geno's, hoping they will be here by Friday.
National screwed up and sent me someone's bench seat cover and foam instead of the console bracket kit, a shipper slapped my label on somebody else's part and vice versa.

Working with National right now trying to get them to ship me another bracket kit and send a call tag for the seat cushion...will save a bunch of paperwork and time if they allow me to do it...

 

[mwilson]

Seat heater kits arrived today from Geno's Garage. Will go on an excursion to the warehouse later today and see what it is required to disassemble my brand new seats for the heat install.....Oh Boy!!!!

National still screwing around with my missing console bracket kit.......GRRRRR....

 

[Motorhead]

Can you post some pictures of the new seats?

 

[mwilson]

Yes, I will. It will just be the naked seat for now as the suspension kits are shipped in different boxes and are somewhere else here in the complex....

I will also document the heater pad install along with the complete seat installation when I do it. It may stretch over the course of a few days because I want to thoroughly shampoo the rugs while the stock seats are out...supposed to be rainy here for like a week so unsure how long the carpet will take to dry out....

The rear seat cushion / cover appears to have a Velcro seam at the bottom so that's doesn't look too scary as long as I don't disturb the lumbar bladders.

The seat bottom cushion / cover appears to have a rugged string all the way around the perimeter underneath ending in a knot so that doesn't look too bad either. Bear in mind these are truck seats and therefore are designed for easy cushion and cover replacement.....

 

[mwilson]

As promised...

 

[mwilson]

Well the weather and some other things dictate I will be home this weekend so the seat install gets put off until next weekend.

I am going to install them at work as it will be easier plus I'll have access to our inventory of air fittings and parts stores that are open on Sundays unlike my hometown..

So I'll work on my Can Am here at home this weekend..

I may stay late at work one night this coming week and at least get the heater pads installed.

 

[Motorhead]

N I C E !.... It looks like you opted to have the "Chugger" control to provide back and forth movement.

 

[mwilson]

N I C E !.... It looks like you opted to have the "Chugger" control to provide back and forth movement.

No, those tracks are fore and aft adjuster tracks.

The snubber option would be another layer / set of tracks... the snubber operates independently of the fore and aft adjuster.

I agonized over the pros and cons of the snubber, then voted it down.

On the entire trip to D.C. and back I only noticed the truck trying to back slap me a couple of times so I hope that I made the right decision...

 

[Motorhead]

I should have looked closer at the last picture you posted. I have done some forum reading from various people and they either did not use the chugger function if they had it, or like you, didn't order it. I won't order it either when I pull the trigger on the Knoedler seats I want.

 

[mwilson]

I do recall one brand of truck seat that did both functions using only one lever and a funky set of tracks. Pull the lever one way and it allowed the fore and aft adjustment, then lock the handle in the opposite direction to enable the snubber. The fore and aft tracks would travel way too far if just simply released as a snubber function...snubber only has a short travel, maybe 3" as I recall..and has rollers so if never used the rollers get flat spots and then won't work right anyways...

 

[mwilson]

I'm wondering if one could order the National made to fit suspension kits and bolt the Knoedler seats right to them. That would save a crap load of work if the Knoedler seat cushion is the same thickness and the track bolt pattern matched. National sells those by themselves....