Whip Seat Covers?

[wiscoscorprider]

Does anybody have a source for new material that works good to re-cover an old whip seat? I have a 1976 that Im working on restoring. I was going to just go buy some sheet vinyl and cover it, but i dont know how to handle the corners... any thoughts?

Any other sleds that have seats that will work?

Id really like to go with the original, but i did see where scirp11 used a yamaha seat - - looks pretty cool but I dont know how much tinkering is necessary to make something like that fit.

Any and all suggestions appreciated!!!

Paul

[scorp11]

you need vinyl with a good cold crack rating. A lot of vinyl places can get it and it isn't terrible expensive. If your ok with folds in the back and front, you can probably do it yourself pretty reasonable. If your not ok with that, and don't have a commercial sewing machine, I'd go to a seat guy.

www.johnsupholstery.com/snowmobile.php did my Custom whip seat and was very reasonable.

If you choose a yamaha seat, it will fit fine on your whip, but you will need to extend the flap that is in the front a couple inches. The one I used was designed to go over a tank, so had john extend the flap in the front by 2 inches and then I put some high density foam where the tank would have gone.

I am very happy with the seat on mine, it seems more forgiving as well as having a trunk

[speedbuff]

How about new old stock seat covers for a 1979 tkx with the optional short seat are their any of these floating about?

[scorp11]

The tank is different between the whip and 79 TK, so they won't fit quite right by the tank. The width would be right though.

You see seats for the TK's available but everyone wants well north of $100 for for any of them it seems. I haven't seen many NOS covers.

I think I had less than $150 in my whip seat including the original seat at a swap and the recover in metalflake vinyl. Gotta buy the original seat right though. . .

[ddub]

If you are truly doing a show sled and need a NOS seat, that is one thing.

But I had this one recovered for about $75.00 I have a guy that does decent work and I bring him the seat and say no hurry.