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PostSubject: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 05, 2013 3:25 am

Hi, I'm Jason, I've just bought a 79 chevy caprice that has been sitting for the last few years, unfortunately some one has taken out the brackets that pivot and hold the back rest of the middle seat in place, is there any chance some one could put up some photo's of their's so that I could make some.
Thanks in advance
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 05, 2013 10:08 am

Should be the same from 1977-1993. Do you need a pic of the latch itself?

You might check here: http://car-part.com/ That site links to many salvge yards, and you can do parts requests as well.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 05, 2013 1:08 pm

not the latch, but the two or three brackets made from flat bar that clip onto the top half on the seat with sirclips and pivot to allow the seat to be folded flat. I'm in New Zealand so getting parts through a salvage yard may not be the easiest?

Cheers
Jason
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 05, 2013 2:00 pm

Hey Jason

How about taking some pictures, that may be helpful.


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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 05, 2013 3:36 pm

79capriceNZ wrote:
not the latch, but the two or three brackets made from flat bar that clip onto the top half on the seat with sirclips and pivot to allow the seat to be folded flat. I'm in New Zealand so getting parts through a salvage yard may not be the easiest?

Cheers
Jason

New Zealand, very cool! My brother has good friends in Nelson and spent a month last year down there. Pics were gorgeous, and he loved it. You live in a gorgeous place! His only complaint was that the flight was so long he felt like he could have gone to the moon and back...ahaha.

My wagon is in the body shop right now, but I know what you're looking for. I'm sure someone else on here will send you a pic. That said, I go yarding a lot and those bars are not all that big. Glad to yank you a couple the next time I hit the yards, if there is a wagon there.

Take care!

-Mike
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Mar 06, 2013 1:01 pm

81X11 wrote:
New Zealand, very cool! My brother has good friends in Nelson and spent a month last year down there. Pics were gorgeous, and he loved it. You live in a gorgeous place! His only complaint was that the flight was so long he felt like he could have gone to the moon and back...ahaha.

My wagon is in the body shop right now, but I know what you're looking for. I'm sure someone else on here will send you a pic. That said, I go yarding a lot and those bars are not all that big. Glad to yank you a couple the next time I hit the yards, if there is a wagon there.

Take care!

-Mike

Awesome, cheers. Will try and put up some pictures of the wagon in the next few days.

Yeah NZ is nice, we're planning a trip to the states later this year so will be cool to see your part of the world!

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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Mar 06, 2013 4:48 pm

I might have the pivot/anchor mounts for the middle seat back in my part collection, the only issue is that the shed door is frozen shut with a mound of snow pile a few feet high against it and we've had rain and wet snow since so it's just a mound of rock hard ice right now

so once it melts I can get in there dig em out and take some pictures for you
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeThu Mar 07, 2013 2:19 pm

Welcome Jason,

If I remember in the next couple of days I will get some shots from my 78 Impala Wagon.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeThu Mar 07, 2013 9:49 pm

That'd be awesome, Thanks
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeMon Mar 11, 2013 6:50 am

Jason,

I dropped the ball on you, I found out Saturday that I had to go to Indy for a couple of weeks for work, and forgot to go out to the garage and take the pic's for you, SORRY!

I hope someone else can help you out before I get back, but if not I will get them when I get back.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeTue Mar 12, 2013 12:13 am

no worries
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeFri Mar 15, 2013 5:40 pm

Here's a couple of photo's of what the seat:

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and this is the beast:

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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeFri Mar 15, 2013 7:56 pm

Jason,looks like its going to clean up nice.How bads the rust on the underside?Would you
measure the distance between those 2 studs sticking up?
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSat Mar 16, 2013 2:14 am

haven't found any major rust underneath yet, but there is a bit around the doors, bonnet etc, but nothing major. I took it for its warrent of fitness today and it only failed on a couple of tires, the rear brakes not balanced and some bulbs, and they are normally pretty picky about rust so thats good.

The distance between the studs is 85mm from centre to centre.

Cheers
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSat Mar 16, 2013 1:10 pm

So the holes in the bracket need to measure 3.35 inches center to center,awesome!
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSat Mar 16, 2013 8:22 pm

yeah, it's not so much the piece that bolts to the floor that I'm worried about, that bit will be easy to make. it's the arms that attach to it that I can't figure out, as I've never seen them.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSat Mar 16, 2013 11:28 pm

We have some pretty ingenious individuals here so I'am sure it wont be a problem.Oh and I'am
not one of those ingenious guys but I know a few of them.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSun Mar 17, 2013 2:59 pm

if you want to make some up it should be fairly easy

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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeMon Mar 18, 2013 3:42 am

Thanks for that. Does yours have the arm you can see in my photo above? if so where does it go and what goes onto the knob near the end?
Cheers
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeMon Apr 08, 2013 1:45 am

I've made up the bottom pivots now but unsure how many arms etc it is meant to have to pull the flap down behind it etc so any pictures would be great
cheers
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Apr 24, 2013 6:46 pm

Hopefully These Pick's will Help
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Apr 24, 2013 8:20 pm

Those look identical to the brackets on the 91-93 TBI cars.

I've had mine out several times to run audio wire and all that... food for thought.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Apr 24, 2013 9:17 pm

they are the same ray
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Apr 24, 2013 9:20 pm

Well there you go.

Confirmed.
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeWed Apr 24, 2013 9:32 pm

even the cargo floor is the same as is the floor pan and frame
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PostSubject: Re: 79 caprice wagon help   79 caprice wagon help Icon_minitimeSat Apr 27, 2013 6:05 am

Awesome, thanks for that! only missing the wire rope piece so will sort that out and should be all good.
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