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Bill D
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You need to flip the seat on its sides and back to easily remove and replace the clips holding the seat cover and pad to the frame. Use care to not attempt to remove the pad before disconnecting the seat heater element . Note the routing of the harness around the back of the frame for your replacement. This is what it looks like off the frame. You need to carefully peel the element off the old foam and replace it to the new foam. I used a small amount of 3 M spray adhesive to secure it flush in place
Once you have the element on the new foam you install the cover to the foam. Turn the cover completely inside out and upside down and use your fingers to push in the plastic clips at the center of the cover to the seat foam . There are 2 of them. Then side by side 4 per side from front to rear. Take care to Fit the sides at the front and rear tightly, so there are no visible wrinkles.
You are now ready to reinstall the seat pad and cover to the frame. You need to feed the rear attachments for the cover through the bite line of the frame along with the heater element harness. Use a second set of hands to push the seat pad tight as possible into the bite line. Reconnect the heater element harness, Replace the rear clips of the seat cover to the frame. Flip the seat on its side to do the side clips and lay it back to clip the front clip which is a PITA as its a rubber clip about 10 inches long that hast to tightly wrap 180 around the frame before you can push it on.
Replace the seat to the truck, reattach harnesses, seat bolts seat belt fastener and al the plastic trim.
The result looks beautiful, and feels like new truck seating. So Much more firm and supportive. A huge improvement. Total cost $237 Took about 1 1/2 hours start to finish.
