Seat upholstery instruction step by step

[datsunnyit]

Hi all

Re upholstery 240z seat with MSA KIT

I don't have genuine upholstery and complete seat.

I don't have the 100% right idea how install new upholstery.

any one have some photos ?

particular iron wire , glue area clip etc

instruction step by step

thanks

[SteveJ]

Did you buy seat foam, too? Do you have early seats with webbing on the bottom, or do you have the metal springs on the bottom?

I bought foam from Banzai Motorworks and upholstery from Black Dragon.

After removing the seats from the car and the hardware from the seats, I found it easiest to cut most of the old hog rings. I used a Dremel tool with a cut-off wheel to cut through the old rings.

Note there are some metal rods that go through loops in the upholstery. Mine were bent up. I chose to replace most instead of trying to straighten them out. Wire clothes hangers are great replacement rods. Cut them to length and bend them to shape.

Before removing the old upholstery, take some digital pictures to reference on putting it back together.

I cut off the upholstery from the seat back. There are a couple of hog rings between the headrest part of the seat back and the lower seat back that you can only access after pulling the upholstery back.

With the new seat foam, I cut the headrest portion off of the lower part of the seat back. I held the head rest in place with plastic wrap while pulling the upholstery back into place.

After getting the upholstery over the seat back, I used tongue and groove pliers and slip joint pliers (pictures below) to bend the hog rings to hold the upholstery in place.

For the seat bottom, remove the old upholstery. If you have webbing below the foam, replace the webbing and jute. Otherwise put on the new foam, upholstery and hog rings.

Reattach the hardware and reinstall. If you have metal springs in the seat bottom and new foam, you will need to remove all of the spacers if you are 5'10" (1.78m) or taller.

I didn't put in much detail because I found it all pretty straight forward to do even though I had never put on new upholstery before.

[datsunnyit]

seat from 1972, metal springs.

only new vinyl

foam and jute original 1972

at the base of the seat

you must thread a 2 wire at the bottom?

how it should be blocked

( for small wire in middle of seat is ok, is simply I know )

at the base of the Backrest,

you must thread a 2 wire at the bottom?

how it should be blocked

between the back foam and vinyl should be pasted with glue?

[ncolz]

No glue!