Does your rear seat rattle? Check this out... (1 Viewer)

[poptart]

I’ll for sure take a set.

PM incoming.

 

[ryaneddy16]

sorry took me a minuet. Just sent a payment

 

[CruiserTrash]

UPDATE: This was getting to be WAY too much keeping track of names, addresses, and PayPal via private messages and an excel spreadsheet.

I made a web shop, which is a completely new endeavor to me. More products will be posted in the coming weeks. Here's the link:
--->Cruiser Trash Parts<---

 

[Spook50]

UPDATE: This was getting to be WAY too much keeping track of names, addresses, and PayPal via private messages and an excel spreadsheet.

I made a web shop, which is a completely new endeavor to me. More products will be posted in the coming weeks. Here's the link:
--->Cruiser Trash Parts<---

Looking forward to it!

 

[4Cruisers]

Just retrieved my package from the mailbox, the cushions look great! Thanks for doing this.

 

[mbx118]

These cushions are great, took a long drive today and didn't hear a peep out of the seats. A bargain at twice the price.

 

[HemiAlex]

Time to double the price. Intro deal is over!

 

[Spook50]

My pair came yesterday and I popped them in today. These are a GREAT replacement for the old worn out and busted pads. Given they're a new rubber part, the fit IS tight and there will be some break in period I'm sure, but I'll be dipped my seat back doesn't rattle anymore!

Old pair on top, new on the bottom, and new bumper installed.

 

[llunchboxx]

Just ordered a set! Excited to end that damn rattle!

 

[TheNeek]

I need my truck to run to see if my rear seat rattles.

 

[midknightc3]

Just ordered a set on the website, I'm pretty excited about this because every other fix I have attempted has failed in fairly short order! @TheNeek take a look at your rear set back latches on the C pillars, if you have fully intact rubber bumpers in there you are set, if they are less than intact than I would just order a set so that when the old girl runs again you won't have to consider any rattles back there.

Clark

 

[CruiserTrash]

I need my truck to run to see if my rear seat rattles.

First things first man!

 

[HemiAlex]

Just installed mine. After 340,000 miles they were done. Much tighter lockup now.

A great product.

 

[erics]

Got my set in and they work great! however mine too has a rattle in the post itself (like Cruisrtrash mentioned above in post #75) - seems to be a plastic shell sitting over a metal core and there is some play where the plastic is no longer tight to the metal post. Not related to this bumper other than it's now quiet enough to hear that seperate small rattle.

 

[CruiserTrash]

@erics I still have not taken my seat back apart to investigate that separate issue on mine. I'll report back when I do.

 

[fj40tom]

Brilliant product! No more high pitched squeaks and rattling from the rear seat!

 

[dbleon]

This was my fix.. bicycle tube and stainless safety wire. Works fantastic. Those pads look nice and not ghetto like this ....

 

[CruiserTrash]

@dbleon I tried a number of different fixes - none if them would last very long. Yours looks a little more robust though!

 

[CruiserTrash]

Hey y'all-

I've been working on the D-pillar vent gaskets. Mine are ok, but have some funky bends/warpage I don't want to reproduce. I tried soaking them in silicone and weighting them down for days in an effort to re-form them - didn't work as well as I had hoped.

So ... does anybody have GOOD gaskets? I'd love to borrow them for molding. You'd get a free set if repros if it works out.

Additionally, if I made repros of the pressure flaps inside the d-pillar tubes, would y'all be comfortable pulling the whole tube out to affix them? It requires removing the 4 screws for the vent, then the vent itself, and then wiggling the tube out. Fitting the tube back in is a bit finicky but only takes about 5 minutes. The flaps attach at the top of the tube and I'd either have the end user staple them in (as they were before) or with small nuts and bolts (if there's enough room). See photos.

 

[Fyffer]

UPDATE:
I made a web store for these seat bumpers and will have some other products following. If you're interested in a set, here's the link:
--->Cruiser Trash Parts<---
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My rear seat makes all kind of noise because the latch is loose. I tried wrapping in tape and a cut up PCV hose, but both would fall off pretty quickly. The problem is that the post on the seat is much smaller than the opening in the latch..... Over the summer I found out that 60s came with small rubber bumpers that fit into the latch and held the seat post tight - I had never even seen them before. It took quite a bit of digging, but I was able to get 1 or 2 from Classic Cruisers, and sourced a couple more off junkyard 60s that popped up local to me. Some were in bad shape and others were mediocre. I would really like brand new ones, but I'm unable to find a part number for them - on diagrams they appear to be part of the entire latch mechanism, which is NLA.

Cue my molding & casting experience. I've done bronze sand casting and cast concrete into silicone rubber molds for work in the past. These little bumpers didn't look like they would cause any problems for a silicone mold process, so I did it last night. This morning I cast a test piece out of a hard resin as a proof of concept, and it worked great. Because the originals I used to make the mold are a little beat up, I'm going to work on the first clone a little bit to iron out the imperfections - maybe some putty to take out indentations and then spray it with a clear coat to make a next-generation piece. After that the task is finding the right material to cast the finished product - I'm looking at 2-part urethane rubber for that. The viscosity is good for a poured cast, it can stand up to abuse since it's urethane-based, and it comes in different grades of flexibility which will help the piece bend into position and absorb bumps in the road better. If that doesn't work, there's about million other products I can use.

Since I'm going to all this trouble to make myself a set of these little rubber bumpers I thought why not see if other folks would be interested. Consider this a feeler post. If this is something you might want, let me know below.

Photos below:
1: An original OEM bumper in place.
2-5: Some pictures of the molding process.
6: This is a first-generation hard-resin clone. (I didn't take any pictures of mixing up the resin and pouring the casting because the working time is 5 minutes - I needed to be quick)
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Fit like a charm, 15 sec install ea. side. Solid