head rest swap....

[Brandy]

Hello all, I have changed seats in the Express several times and I now have the ones I like and that are way comfortable. I am going to stain the leather a darker brown color....maybe. lol. I hated the headrests however and vowed to change them somehow. I had a bright idea this morning and tooled over the local salvage yard and took the headrests from the previous contenders that I really liked so I could somehow marry them up with what I had. The bars turned out to be wider and longer on the ones I hate so I cut all of the foam crap off and sliced them just above the first bend. I also cut out the flat brace in between the bars higher up. I pulled the covers off of the ones I want and cut down into the molded soft foam until I could slid the bar out. Then I cut a tunnel of sorts that mimicked the shape of the wider bar and slipped it inside the foam. A bit of fiddling around and it fit okay. I pulled the cover back over it all and pushed/punched around till it smoothed out and filled the cover right. Zip it up and hooray! Workable rests that I like. Here's some pics, and, I know that this is the wrong way to do it all of you upholstery guys out there, but, it works for me. The gray ones are the ones I like and are about 5 inches shorter than the weird alien looking ones from a Volvo.