{"id":44166,"date":"2014-03-18T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=44166"},"modified":"2014-03-18T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:00:37","slug":"repairing-rebuilding-the-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/repairing-rebuilding-the-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing & Rebuilding the Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RepairingI needed to do some clean up in the garage and needed a quick hit on the car, so I grabbed the seats and did some work on them. I cut the old seat tracks off and welded a repair piece into the rail on one so we could wire brush it.<\/p>\n

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Some more light work today…..I am making templates of the seats to figure how to make the Roadster seats into Coupe seats. Really no surprises – both the Roadster seat frames and the Coupe leather seat covers appear to me mirror images of each other. What I am missing is the height measurement of the coupe seat. I don\u2019t think I will have a problem cutting the frame tubes and making the seat backs to have the same curve but I really need the height measurement of the internal two vertical supports.<\/p>\n

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Well no guts no glory….let\u2019s mock this thing up. From all of the templates it looks like if I make mirror images of both short sides I will be really close.<\/p>\n

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I cut a 1″ piece of the solid stock to use as a locating pin.<\/p>\n

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I used a wood pipe clamp to pull the sides together.<\/p>\n

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I decided to make the sides the same size and will use the outside measurement of the tape measure since there are no weld beads to interfere with the measurement.<\/p>\n

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I used an axial clamp (thanks to Santa) to make sure the tube aligns properly.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see where I tacked the outside bend and this is with the two seat backs next to each other.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the final mock up all tack welded up.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the finished seat back.<\/p>\n

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