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The seats are easy to remove: little covers over the back mounts, then 4 13mm nuts. 2 front, 2 rear, and the seat heater plug, and that's it.
The passenger seat can be used in place of the driver's. The seat bottom is identical as far as the foam, spring frame, and upholstery. The back adjuster knob needs to be disassembled and moved to the other side. It won't clear the center console. If your driver's backrest is OK, it can be swapped onto a good passenger seat bottom, or the upholstery reinstalled over a passenger seat top so that the lumbar support ends up on the correct side (not really important but the knob placement has to match the hole in the upholstery.
My 86 has an 87 passenger seat for it's driver's seat, and it's quite comfortable (and warm! the seat heaters were like new). My old seat had a broken top frame and split foam. Only the upholstery and knobs were reusable.
You do need to swap the seat adjuster rails under the seat to make a passenger into a driver's seat, and the passenger side has no seat height adjusters. If you save all the hardware and bolt it all to the passenger side seat bottom, it will work as original. An alternate and maybe simpler route to follow is to simply undo the upholstery and stick a good set of cushions from a passenger seat into your drivers seat- but this only works if the problem is the foam itself. IF the spring frame is falling apart or the upholstery is shot, use the whole passenger seat. Basically you want to get the two seats side-by-side and use the best parts to make one good seat.
Once you're ready to start, post here and we can give some good tips on getting various things apart. I rebuilt mine right in the living room and it was a pretty straightforward one-night project.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 'Roterande Fläkt Och Drivremmar!'
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