Seats
 

A friend of mine is parting out his 05-06 crew cab 2500 cummins. It has the electric, saddle leather seats in it. How difficult is it going to be to put those seats into my 97? Mine doesn't have power seats and the driver side foam is getting worn out. What about the back seat? His is crew and mine is extended cab. His also has the storage under rear seats.

Measure out tracks on both seats. This will let you know spacing wise where you are at.

As far as wiring them in I can't be of much help. But people add power seats into customized cars all of the time. So it is possible but I have heard it is a pain!

I highly doubt that those crew cab seats are going to fit back there. When doubt...measure and be prepared to have mounts fabricated.

I would imagine the 3rd gen rear seats are bigger than 2nd gen by a good margin. Front seats can totally be made to work though.

I'm going to try it in a few days. The seats aren't going to cost me anything so it's worth trying. I have to wait until after they get the motor out of it before I can get them.

It will require some bracket work at the very least.

Thanks. Brackets shouldn't be a big problem. I can build whole new ones if I need to.

In that case, build some brackets to put your dmax seats in it, and I'll buy a set from you :c:

I do need a new driver seat in the dmax. But I really want to put these in my cummins. I may buy the whole truck if he's cheap enough. A straight axle for the dmax would be nice.

I drive my truck well over 1K a week for work. Being an old Dodge, at least once a year I break it so catastrophically that it's down for a month or two. My backup truck is an '06 Dmax dually, loaded. It is a very sweet truck, but I wouldn't say it does anything better than my old Dodge that isn't inherent to the platform. i.e., my shortcab obviously isn't going to absorb people and items as well as the four door GMC.
Regardless, I'm on the fence about the seats. I got really spoiled on that Sierra leather. The heat works amazing, and cleaning them is a snap. First impression is that they're way more comfortable, and six 8-way power is super customizable. That said, after riding around all day in them, I'm damn ready to get out. In my old Dodge with original cloth seats, I can drive for ten hours and still be feeling great. It's a paradox. But I think, if I came across a nice pair of Chevy leathers, I'd be hard pressed to keep myself from snatching them up and finagling them in my Dodge anyway. I know it can be done, another guy in here put some in his 2nd gen, wired up and everything.

I think I read that post. The pictures looked pretty good too.

Wiring in power seats isn't hard. Just run a fused hot wire to the seats and attach a ground to the floorboard.

There's a lot more that two wires involved with Chevy seats. Half the controls are on the door.

I was talking about regular power seats, not the ones with power lumbar, heat, A/C, kegarator, snowcone maker, electric shaver, DVD player, and requires 1.21 gigawatts to fire up the ol' flux capacitor.

Well if they don't have at least a flux capacitor and electric shaver, they aren't even worth talking about here... and those are a few wires all by themselves right there.

My 95 has Chevy seats from an 02 loaded Silverado. You guys may have read my post about it. I don't know. My truck has had some much done to it I lose track of who has seen what and what I've posted.

Leather, lumbar, 6 way power, heated. My truck cane with dodge power seats. 2 wires compared to....alot. lol

They were from a 4 door, and my truck is a reg cab. They were as different as possible.
Bit of a tight fit with the Dodge seat, but I kept the OEM mounting points with a little creativity. I made up a bracket for the front bolts to keep the seats level. Really was pretty easy.

I did not wire them by myself as wiring isn't my Forte. I know that I have everything except memory settings, and that's apparently not too hard if I want.

All of the controllers and everything are powered from the seat. The door controls are only on the door due to accessibility.

You can wire in everything on the dash with aftermarket switches. My goal is to have fancy toggle switches for it all.

I have the wiring diagrams for them from Chevrolet. As I recall, both seats run from one power wire with the passenger set up as a slave from the driver, with a relay in between .

As for SASing the dmax, it's none too nice of a job. Last I checked, you needed about 4-6" of lift to do it.

In the newer ones that run coilovers/struts in the front it'd be marginally easier than converting one that formerly used torsion bars. But I think those use rack and pinion steering, which would be a pain with a solid axle.

It's kind of a mess no matter how you slice it.

I got the seats out on thanksgiving but haven't put them in yet. I pulled the truck into the shop yesterday after I lost fifth gear. I think it's the synchronizer again. It quit pulling and when I shifted to forth it was fine, but fifth is blocked out now.

I'm going to put the seats in and install a boost gauge pyro gauge and fuel pressure gauge as well as boost elbow while I have it down.

That reminds me.... I really need a Pyro, FP, and oil pressure gauge. .