Bench Seat question

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FlDart360

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Have a question for those upholstery experts out there. The previous owner did a great job when he recovered the bench seat in my Swinger unfortunately looks are as far as it goes. The support is what I would expect from a 45 year old seat. Are there any helper springs or fixies available for this?
 
If your just talking about the bottom, when we had the seat done for my sons Dart I asked for some extra foam on the butt side to firm it up. It helped that in a hole feel. Also I once had a seat that had some broken springs. Something else to ck.
 
Way back decades ago when I did a lot of cars, I had a good upholstery guy do my seats, got covers from legendary. I know he added the correct density foam, but I am thinking he would move some springs around, like from pass side to drivers side??
 
If your just talking about the bottom, when we had the seat done for my sons Dart I asked for some extra foam on the butt side to firm it up. It helped that in a hole feel. Also I once had a seat that had some broken springs. Something else to ck.

You nailed it that sitting in a hole feeling is what i have not terribly bad, but enough to be annoying.
 
Way back decades ago when I did a lot of cars, I had a good upholstery guy do my seats, got covers from legendary. I know he added the correct density foam, but I am thinking he would move some springs around, like from pass side to drivers side??

The passenger side is like new.
 
Your local upholstery shop should have springs or donor seat frames to rob springs from. Otherwise you might try a parts yard that has some older vehicles. Most of todays seats are foam over steel, no springs to get.
 
Sometimes a spring is just missing a clip that joins it to the next one.
Another thing I noticed on the rear seat, original support was not foam - it was dense batting. Whether that was true for the front benches I don't know for sure.
 
I added new springs to my 69 Swinger bench. I bought a roll of seat of Amazon. Still have some left.New clips too.
 
Going to take a look this weekend underneath and compare the passenger side to the driver side springs and see if anything is missing or broken . Thanks for all the responses it helps give me a starting point.
 
You may not find missing or broken, only fatigued. There should be a burlap like underlayment material between spring and foam or batting. It has little steel wires woven into it. It is placed with those wires running left to right or across the springs, keeps the cushioning from going through between the springs like potato though a slicer, helps spread load across multiple springs. I mention this because we have seen it omitted from some of the so called restored seats for sale.
 
Redfish is right on, I noticed that when I redid my seats myself.
The original foam was also formed, it rolled over the edges, not a giant square block that sat on top.
The back of my rear seat also had a layer of cotton at the bottom between the burlap and springs, like a lumbar support.
The front bottom also had a strip of burlap running on the underside of the front edge of the springs, to tie them together and to tie to the ends.
Also, the original inserts that the hog rings clip over are steel, not rolled cardboard.
 
I don't have all the pics I took on my phone, but in this one you can clearly see the wires woven into the burlap.
In the front seat they were woven into the foam. There is also a piece of burlap, or something, hog clipped to the top springs and the bottom springs in the middle, which actually come around the back of the center seat bottom, top to bottom.

Watching the online upholstery videos and comparing them to what I took apart was night and day.

I originally followed the videos step by step, and it not only turned out horrible but I couldn't get the covers on fully.

Recreated what was originally there and they are perfect and extremely comfortable.

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I just recovered my bench seat on my 69 Cuda, and used a universal foam kit from Legendary along with new covers. The kit included new foam, burlap and of course hog rings and pliers were extra. If the covers are not dried up you should be able to cut the hog rings and either rebuild your seat bottom or just cut a few on the back side and add in some smaller dense foam sheets.
 
I just renewed the bottom front bench seat and both top and bottom rears. My drivers side felt like I was sitting in a hole. Two broken springs. A friend tig welded the ends together, they will probably fail, but the seat feels like new now. They were broken at the edge by your knees. Got my foam rebuild kit from Classic Industries. You will use more hog rings than you think, and you only get 50 for $9.00? I went to my local farm store and got a real hog ring pliers and 100 rings for $3.00. Don't buy that cheap pliers that they sell. Seats are not fun to do, just pay attention, you can get through it.
 
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