How to fold down 60/40 bucket seat from 90s GMC Sierra

[Gregski]

hey guys, a bit of an off question I bought two of these 40% low back bench seats from two different trucks at the local Pick N Pull and want to store them on a garage shelf for now, and one of them folded down (forward) perfectly flat (makes for easy storage) the other one refuses

now I know you pull the backs up ever so slightly and they lean forward allowing you to get to the extended part of the cab, but one folded down completely so now I am doubting myself thinking is that one just broken or do they actually do that, cause for the life of me I can't get the second one to lay down flat, I'm like 4 beers into it trying, ha ha

[Gregski]

stare n compare time

turns out I'm not crazy, GM completely changed the design from 1990 to 91 !?!?!?

[1976gmc20]

now I know you pull the backs up ever so slightly and they lean forward allowing you to get to the extended part of the cab

Really ??? I'm going to have to try that!

I've been cussing my 1989 for seven years now because it only goes halfway down and then it flops right back when you turn around to pick something up and put it in the back

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Really ??? I'm going to have to try that!

I've been cussing my 1989 for seven years now because it only goes halfway down and then it flops right back when you turn around to pick something up and put it in the back

I'm not sure which one of mine is the '90 and which one is the '91, however if your locking mechanism is on the outside of the seat like the seat on the left above, then that one does lay down flat, if it is on the inside by the center console (if there was one, ha ha) that seat did not want to lay down flat and only leaned forward about 45°

[1976gmc20]

I don't care about the driver side so much, just the passenger side.

So does the newer or older one lie flat?

I will have to go play with it when it stops snowing.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

I don't care about the driver side so much, just the passenger side.

So does the newer or older one lie flat?

I will have to go play with it when it stops snowing.

the older ie 1990 does NOT lie flat, sorry mate

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Gregski

the older ie 1990 does NOT lie flat, sorry mate

Well, crap

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Well, crap

Hey, don't hate the playah hate the game! hee hee

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Gregski

Hey, don't hate the playah hate the game! hee hee

I think I'm just going to be on the lookout for a decent K20 survivor, and then sell the K1500 for whatever I can get. The x-cab is too long in the woods especially with the IFS. I don't know why they couldn't figure out how to make the front wheels turn any more ???

[special-K]

Just thought I'd mention the 60/40 seats are bench seats, hence the 60%/40% name. Buckets seats add up to less than 100%.

That's an interesting thing you discovered. It seems odd they changed between those years when '92 is when they completed the GMT400 line. This is a tidbit that would good to share in that message board for future reference

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by special-K

Just thought I'd mention the 60/40 seats are bench seats, hence the 60%/40% name. Buckets seats add up to less than 100%.

Correct the 40% bench pieces in the 90s trucks end up buckets in my '71 (I was expecting you all to read my intentions, ha ha)

40% + 40% < 100%

[special-K]

Gotcha, and I did get that. I guess GM made a 60/40 bench and you made them 40/40 buckets. 40% + 40% = room for a console

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by special-K

Gotcha, and I did get that. I guess GM made a 60/40 bench and you made them 40/40 buckets. 40% + 40% = room for a console

you know I was thinking about that but I have this silly notion that I like the clean empty space look, I know it sounds crazy but in my stick cars I just like to see black carpet on the floor with the rubber gator on the manual stick shift and nothing else, I think it's the European in me, I am Americanized now though and I can see the practicality of a center console, I listen to CDs (yes I am a neanderthal) so need a place to put them, and of course cup holders

here is a pick of the current seats in my '71 GMC, I hate them but they came with the truck, looks like they are out of an RV or something, they are so bulky and huge

[1976gmc20]

That empty space between the bucket seats is where you put your cooler full of beer

[special-K]

I put things in the console. < That could be the complete conversation right there. I only put things in a console. I never take them back out . That space is handy for all sorts of things. Buckets AND console are not synonymous (Did I use that word correctly? ).

Those seat you show look like furniture from a mobile home living room. Is there a pouch for the remote?

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by special-K

I put things in the console. < That could be the complete conversation right there. I only put things in a console. I never take them back out .

Yeah, we're thinking about trading in our old Suburban so one of my tasks tomorrow is cleaning out the big console. It's going to be an adventure. I'll probably find things that I haven't seen for years.


There's probably even a roll of TP in there

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Yeah, we're thinking about trading in our old Suburban so one of my tasks tomorrow is cleaning out the big console. It's going to be an adventure. I'll probably find things that I haven't seen for years.

There's probably even a roll of TP in there

ha ha, dibs on bullets or shells

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Gregski

ha ha, dibs on bullets or shells

No way, I've got plenty of guns to shoot them with

But you're probably right, I've got ammo squirrelled away in lots of places including every vehicle. I'll probably never find it all before I die.

Never put all your bullets in one basket.

[LT7A]

Gregski, what a nice surprise to find you haunting GMT400land. I'm very interested in a set of 60/40 or even better, high-back buckets in the same the color as those you found for your 71. They would be for my 82 Suburban. On the subject of ammo and things, surprisingly, in the debris I cleared out of my K20, there was nothing firearm-related. And then in cleaning out my C15 2WD, I found an intact cartridge for a 22. Which now I wear on a chain around my neck... Yeah, no. Not really. In keeping with the theme, it seems like there should be at least one 30 aught 6, or 12-gauge shell lurking somewhere in the K20, haha. Happy hunting fellas!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Gregski, what a nice surprise to find you haunting GMT400land. I'm very interested in a set of 60/40 or even better, high-back buckets in the same the color as those you found for your 71. They would be for my 82 Suburban. On the subject of ammo and things, surprisingly, in the debris I cleared out of my K20, there was nothing firearm-related. And then in cleaning out my C15 2WD, I found an intact cartridge for a 22. Which now I wear on a chain around my neck... Yeah, no. Not really. In keeping with the theme, it seems like there should be at least one 30 aught 6, or 12-gauge shell lurking somewhere in the K20, haha. Happy hunting fellas!

ha ha, yeah can you imagine welding on a cab corner to patch a rust hole and there's a 45 casing lurking on the other side of that 16 gauge steel pointed at your knee cap (if you're lucky)

[LT7A]

Yeah, that would be a fun trip to the emergency room. And even better when the detective from Sacramento PD visits and asks you how you received a gunshot wound. And you proceed to tell him this cockamamie story about working on your truck...

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Yeah, that would be a fun trip to the emergency room. And even better when the detective from Sacramento PD visits and asks you how you received a gunshot wound. And you proceed to tell him this cockamamie story about working on your truck...

... and it turns out he used to be a professional welder before he became a cop, so you get off with a warning for the gun shot, but he puts you on house arrest on the account of your welds looking like Ray Charles laid them down with his feet!

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by Gregski

... and it turns out he used to be a professional welder before he became a cop, so you get off with a warning for the gun shot, but he puts you on house arrest on the account of your welds looking like Ray Charles laid them down with his feet!

Hahaha, come on now bro, your welds are looking better all the time. Your stack of dimes might not get you a job minting coins yet, but none of that stuff you weld is going to come apart. And you've welded what, 100 times to my once?!

[Gregski]

it's been a while but I just wanna show you guys what these end up looking like recovered

and here they are in my '54, I love 'em! the one on the left is actually a bit different with the head rest I am just using it for a stare and compare, the one on the right never had a head rest

[Palf70Step]

If I remember right 92 was the first year with the head rests. Those seat are really confortable and work in most any truck. I did not know about the folding difference thing.