Are you up to disassembling your seat bottom? If so, get a reweave kit for lawn chairs, color match if you like, (; and weave the strips tightly through your seat springs, roll the end and hog ring them or fold the end to look like an arrow and screw them to the seat frame. What you want it to look like is a lawn chair weave but with the springs incorporated into the weave. That alone should add 200 lbs capacity to your seat. A lot of people lay a piece of burlap between the springs and foam. I had some vinyl siding left form my garage project and used it in place of the burlap, It really stiffens things up! Lately they have had an advertisement with two summa wrestlers sitting in a couch using what looks like strips of siding, they stole my idea! This works on bench seats as well as buckets. On bench seats the drivers side gets used more and tends to sag more, just double up or stack the front to rear strips on the drivers side!
Herb
1954 DeSoto Firedome Estate Wagon 276 HEMI
1956 Plymouth Belvedere 361 4-Sale
1959 Dodge Coronet 326 Poly
1961 Plymouth Belvedere Custom Suburban Wagon 318 Poly
1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer Wagon 318 Poly
1963 Plymouth Fury 2D/HT 7.0L
1963 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible 361
1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst 440
1979 Dodge Aspen Sport Wagon 360
1999 Durango SLT 5.9L
2008 SRT-8 Magnum 6.1L
St. Louis, MO.
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Date: 09/09/12 01:23:06
Subject: Re: Seats
That brings up a question I have. I'm 6'5" and 445 pounds......What can I do to my bench seat so it can support my fat a$$? I've already moved the mounting hole back 2" ( I could care less about my back seat, I'll never use it.) I had not even thought about making my seat stronger. How would I do that? Get another seat from something else and put two frames into one so it can hold me? I did not have any problems....but I am sure there will be some after time.
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Eric
Tacoma, WA
1962 Chrysler Newport 2 door HT
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