I recently took the driver and passenger seats out of an early 760 with intentions of putting them into my 1989 740.

Problem i am running into is that the seats out of the 760 are power seats and the seats in my 740 are non power.
I dont have the power seat controls for the driver side so my plan was to just swap the rails and throw the seats in the 740.

Seems that its not so easy from just looking at it.

was looking for tips/advice on how easy/hard this is going to be for me and if anyone has experience with turning power seats into manual seats

thanks.

 

Well, you can't.
You are much better off taking the cushions and the back leather cover from the power seats and putting them on the non power seats-- (I assume the power ones have better leather and it's the reason for the swap).

As a straight swap, it's easy to instal the power seats into a non power seat car: the wiring is super simple, a + wire to the fuse box, a - wire anywhere on the chassis. You'd have to acquire the switch pack for the dr. seat but that's easy, junk yard are full of them. On the down side, these early 760 seats have pretty dodgy controls that always seem to act up. I would make the dr. seat power, the passenger seat manual. This is the way I have my '92 740, with 940 seats... But I used the later style switches which are less prone to fail. Power seats are nice if more than one driver uses the car, especially Volvo 740/940 whose manual seats can be quite a chore to move back and forth... Just keep those tracks clean--every Volvo I see the tracks are full of coins, clips, batteries, pills, etc, and all that garbage will make the back-n-forth function difficult if not impossible after a time.

 

id rather not have power seats, so thats out of the question.

but what you are saying is just swap out the cushions from the power seats and install them on to the non power seats?

 

Yes. The bottoms are super easy to swap, the backs, you have to take off the leather cover, put it on the other seat: there are hog rings mostly, not that hard. I use long pliers, and another pair of good size cutting pliers to undo the hog rings. Good time to fix the lumbar also, if broken.

 

do i have to remove the seats form the car to swap out the bottom cushions or can i do it with the seats in the car still?

sorry for the questions just wanna make sure before i start taking things apart that i dont need to

 

It may be possible to do it in the car, but much, much easier with the seats out...

 

okay thank you i appreciate the advice and speedy responce

 

fwiw, i put power drivers seat from a later 960 in my 92 740 that came with manual seats. swapped the seat belt hardware, and wired my own power circuit. the 740 style trim fit on the 960 seats, too. needed a pretty big metric 1/2" drive hex bit for the seat belt attachment points.