Changing out my interior, help...
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Changing out my interior, help...
Found an extended cab, but it has bench seat up front and 2 fold down jump seats in the back. Have complete interior in current truck. But new truck has a better engine in the more preferred size with lower miles and the extended bed (main reason I want it). Any advice on how to go about installing rear bench, bench back rest, and filling in the holes left from the two side mounted fold down jump seats?
Thank you for reading and any advice given.
Chris
Thank you for reading and any advice given.
Chris
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You will need to drill out the spot welds from the seat brackets on the bench seat truck and then weld or bolt them into your jump seat truck. It's kind of a messy job. My advise would be, before you start this, give the jump seats a chance. I say this because my truck has the jump seats and after I bought it, I sourced a bench seat truck and removed the seat and brackets, intending as you are to convert mine to bench. What I found was that the jump seats afford my 2 boys quite a bit more leg room than the bench seat does, so I never did the conversion. The bench seat is still gathering dust in my attic.
As my boys have grown, the extra leg room of the jump seats becomes more and more valuable.
As my boys have grown, the extra leg room of the jump seats becomes more and more valuable.
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You will need to drill out the spot welds from the seat brackets on the bench seat truck and then weld or bolt them into your jump seat truck. It's kind of a messy job. My advise would be, before you start this, give the jump seats a chance. I say this because my truck has the jump seats and after I bought it, I sourced a bench seat truck and removed the seat and brackets, intending as you are to convert mine to bench. What I found was that the jump seats afford my 2 boys quite a bit more leg room than the bench seat does, so I never did the conversion. The bench seat is still gathering dust in my attic.
As my boys have grown, the extra leg room of the jump seats becomes more and more valuable.
As my boys have grown, the extra leg room of the jump seats becomes more and more valuable.
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