Suburban/Extended cab bucket seats in a regular cab truck(1997) ??

[jocko]

Just curious - do they fit? Do they bolt in the same as the bench or are additional under floor braces/brackets etc required (ala earlier eras)? I've never seen them originally in a regular cab pickup in a 95+ interior that I can recall, were they even an option - or were they only available in an extended cab or burb? Thx - not going to yank my original bench, but pondering whether it's even possible.

[special-K]

As far as I know they are the same buckets used in regular cab pickups. I know the seat brackets are all the same.

[Palf70Step]

The seat bracket for the passenger side is different between regular and extended cab. The extended cab has the function to cause the seat to move forward/slide forward from the rear and front, while regular cab slide release is only up front. I honestly don't know about Suburbans/Tahoe as I never grabbed a seat from them, but I would assume they are the same as the regular cab truck brackets.

[b454rat]

I just grabbed a set of seats from a ext cab and suburban. Sub has regular sliders, the ext has base that slides way forward for entry to the back, even tho it had 3rd door. Seats themselves are the same...

[special-K]

So any of those seats will work in the regular cab. Those seats have more than you need for a regular cab. The original seats I ordered in my '92 were low back vinyl. I thought that would be better in a work truck. Wrong! The vinyl was carp that started coming apart in 18,000 miles. I had the driver side bottom replaced two times under the 60k warranty. When they started to fail the fourth time before 80k I located some new take out Tahoe cloth hi-backs and bolted those in. Those were looking fine at 335k when I got out of that truck. Should have gone with the cloth hi-backs in the first place

[Palf70Step]

All seats will bolt to any bracket. The floor mounting holes are slightly different between the 2 88-94 ones and the 94-98 (forgot Subs & HD last year) differ between each other and the earlier seats

[jocko]

Thanks very much gents, great info - I really appreciate the help. I think I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for a set of 95-98 blue cloth buckets and a console.

[special-K]

I just put the '94-back style high back cloth buckets in my '95 Suburban Cheyenne bench seat. I am not sure what these buckets came out of, but the passenger side brackets are different from the driver side, which are similar to the bench seat brackets. Follow that? The bench seat brackets have the same look and same mounting. The passenger side bolts down quite differently. They bolt down ahead of and behind the brackets, not inside the bracket bottoms. The original low-back vinyl buckets in '92 K3500 as well as the (said to be) Tahoe high-back cloth buckets I replaced them with all had the same type brackets as the drivers side I just installed. Another note is those said to be Tahoe high-backs had arm rests on both sides of each seat. These I just installed only have inner arm rests

In my '92 I was able to straight out swap seats, all bolted up the same. On this swap I just did, the driver side outer mounts were the same. The front inner mount is under the floor but inner skin is not drilled. I drilled that out to find it took a 10mm bolt where the OEM outer mounts take 12mm. I had to drill and through bolt the inner rear.

On the passenger side I could only use the front outer mount. The brackets are longer, so I had to drill and through bolt the other three locations.

They are in and feel really great