Mounting seat slides and installing the seat heater pads

I ordered the Breeze seat mounts, some ABS to replace the fiberboard, and some seat slides, YMMV if you use them or not but I figured it’s an option that may be beneficial down the road

I got the ABS sheet from Falken Design, ~$75 shipped, it’s not cheap, but most likely won’t crack over time like the fiberboard that comes in the Breeze Kit.

ABS Sheet – Black – 3/16 inch thick
24×36 inch w/Custom Cut: 10.125 X 14.875: 2

Installation Kit for New Steel Frame “Classic” Seats

I ordered a set of Universal Bucket Seat Slider Tracks from Speedway, they lock on both sides with a wire pull between them
of course, they don’t snap in like a Lego set, you need to modify them – and took us about 6 hours to align to the Breeze mounts, and attach the seats. You have to drill 2 new holes to attach to the seat brackets. Some grinding, drilling to remove the studs, then it’s just aligning the bolts and using the locknuts. The width of the seat is narrower than the seat track spring wire allows for so I used some 1/16th stainless wire and some loops to make a proper spacing wire, and it’s adjustable with a turnbuckle to adjust the firmness to unlock both sides of the slide.

Measuring out the breeze mounts, and wanted to share our trick to minimize damage when drilling the seats
use a scrap piece of aluminum sheet to place between the leather and the drill bit – worked GREAT! The metal shield stopped the bit a few times as it broke through the metal, and kept the leather clear!

Next up was to install the seat heater pads from Cobra Valley Hot Seats – not cheap (again) but comes with everything you need for setting up 2 seat heaters.

I unglued the seat, and placed the heating element
if you’re like me, you hate tearing apart something new to modify it – but it has to be done!

I gently pull back the leather from the pad without removing too much padding – take your time. Next, peel the adhesive tape off and affix the pads. Then, cut into the seat pad a bit to bury the heater cable. I then glued that cut to seal it up (nice pink duct tape eh?) Finally, use the Weldwood adhesive, the small can worked beautifully for both seats – and yes, IT STINKS!