Super Duty Leather Seats in OBS
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08-02-2011, 03:12 PM
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Super Duty Leather Seats in OBS
I finally got around to put these in this weekend. The rear is just a matter of positioning it where you want and drilling new holes and bolting it in. I pushed mine as far back as they would go and didn't seem to loose any room over stock in the rear. The front seats I used the factory SD power bases as I had my stock seats sold already and couldn't rob the manual slider bracket....but it turned out to be so easy it worked out great.
The front I sat in there where I thought I wanted them, hooked up the power so i could play with the adjustments and make sure, then marked and drilled my front holes. The driver side didn't need any mods to the brackets at all, I drilled two new holes for the front brackets, in the rear there was a sheet metal body cross member underneath where I wanted to put the holes, so I just cut a piece of angle iron and clearanced it for the movement of the tracks, drilled a hole in it for the original rear mounting stud and used it to retain the rear seat mounts. On the passenger side it was almost as easy but I did have to bend the front left (closest to the trans tunnel) bracket. Drilled the front two holes, did the same angle iron for the rear mount. Used the factory SD plugs and wired into the OBS power lumbar circuit.
The seats work great, I gave myself a little more leg room up front, but there is plenty of forward travel to give rear passengers more leg room if needed....but 95% no one rides behind me. Also I love the fold out rear load deck, I have already used it and it is NICE. The seats are way more comfortable, however they do sit higher, even with the bases lowered all the way.... I'm 6'2" and my wife says i have a long Torso, but I fit just fine. But if your taller or have a longer torso, you may have to do more mods to the seat brackets to lower them. But like I said it was so easy I think it would have taken longer to remove the factory bracket and re-drill the wholes for these seats.
For some reason not all the pics are showing up, so here is the link to them.... F250 crew cab pictures from trucks photos on webshots
The front I sat in there where I thought I wanted them, hooked up the power so i could play with the adjustments and make sure, then marked and drilled my front holes. The driver side didn't need any mods to the brackets at all, I drilled two new holes for the front brackets, in the rear there was a sheet metal body cross member underneath where I wanted to put the holes, so I just cut a piece of angle iron and clearanced it for the movement of the tracks, drilled a hole in it for the original rear mounting stud and used it to retain the rear seat mounts. On the passenger side it was almost as easy but I did have to bend the front left (closest to the trans tunnel) bracket. Drilled the front two holes, did the same angle iron for the rear mount. Used the factory SD plugs and wired into the OBS power lumbar circuit.
The seats work great, I gave myself a little more leg room up front, but there is plenty of forward travel to give rear passengers more leg room if needed....but 95% no one rides behind me. Also I love the fold out rear load deck, I have already used it and it is NICE. The seats are way more comfortable, however they do sit higher, even with the bases lowered all the way.... I'm 6'2" and my wife says i have a long Torso, but I fit just fine. But if your taller or have a longer torso, you may have to do more mods to the seat brackets to lower them. But like I said it was so easy I think it would have taken longer to remove the factory bracket and re-drill the wholes for these seats.
For some reason not all the pics are showing up, so here is the link to them.... F250 crew cab pictures from trucks photos on webshots
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08-02-2011, 07:33 PM
The floor is typically reinforced where the seats bolt down for more support in case of a wreck. I'd suggest you find a large plate to put behind each nut under the cab so the bolt is in contact with more surface area of the floor pan. That makes it harder for the bolts to rip out of the floor in an accident.
Looks pretty good though. Is the leather on the driver seat cracked up yet? I hate leather, but I have seen some deals on fleabay for practically new seat covers that were taken off during a conversion when the trucks were new that sold for next to nothing. You'll just need some hog rings to swap the covers out.
Looks pretty good though. Is the leather on the driver seat cracked up yet? I hate leather, but I have seen some deals on fleabay for practically new seat covers that were taken off during a conversion when the trucks were new that sold for next to nothing. You'll just need some hog rings to swap the covers out.
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Thanks! I work for a salvage yard, so I did some work related trading.....so I don't really know a specific $ amount, I think if you were to buy them for front seats, console, and rear seat they have been getting around a grand, but I really don't know.... Our Ebay guys typically sell this kinda stuff. I was just able to snag this set first.
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What I think is Crazy, is that I was just talking to a guy from middle TN last night named Caylon (similar but not the same as your name) who is coming this weekend or next to buy another set of leather SD crew cab tan seats I have in the garage 
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05-16-2013, 10:46 PM
Since his were gone, i went ahead and did it a different way. With some buddies helping (doing most of it all lol) due to my knee, we figured out this way. For the front ones, we kind of made my own brackets using flat bar. We made the 1/4" flat bar mount to the stock bolt locations, and then bolted the seats to the flat bar using grade 8 bolts all around. This actually made it so there was NO modifying the rear brackets on the front super duty brackets. On the front-front SD bracket mounts, we put a 1/4 plate under the floor board and then used another small piece of flat bar which i cut to fit under the bracket as a spacer. We'll tackle putting the rear seats in soon.
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05-16-2013, 11:45 PM
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Since his were gone, i went ahead and did it a different way. With some buddies helping (doing most of it all lol) due to my knee, we figured out this way. For the front ones, we kind of made my own brackets using flat bar. We made the 1/4" flat bar mount to the stock bolt locations, and then bolted the seats to the flat bar using grade 8 bolts all around. This actually made it so there was NO modifying the rear brackets on the front super duty brackets. On the front-front SD bracket mounts, we put a 1/4 plate under the floor board and then used another small piece of flat bar which i cut to fit under the bracket as a spacer. We'll tackle putting the rear seats in soon.
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I finally got around to put these in this weekend. The rear is just a matter of positioning it where you want and drilling new holes and bolting it in. I pushed mine as far back as they would go and didn't seem to loose any room over stock in the rear. The front seats I used the factory SD power bases as I had my stock seats sold already and couldn't rob the manual slider bracket....but it turned out to be so easy it worked out great.
The front I sat in there where I thought I wanted them, hooked up the power so i could play with the adjustments and make sure, then marked and drilled my front holes. The driver side didn't need any mods to the brackets at all, I drilled two new holes for the front brackets, in the rear there was a sheet metal body cross member underneath where I wanted to put the holes, so I just cut a piece of angle iron and clearanced it for the movement of the tracks, drilled a hole in it for the original rear mounting stud and used it to retain the rear seat mounts. On the passenger side it was almost as easy but I did have to bend the front left (closest to the trans tunnel) bracket. Drilled the front two holes, did the same angle iron for the rear mount. Used the factory SD plugs and wired into the OBS power lumbar circuit.
The seats work great, I gave myself a little more leg room up front, but there is plenty of forward travel to give rear passengers more leg room if needed....but 95% no one rides behind me. Also I love the fold out rear load deck, I have already used it and it is NICE. The seats are way more comfortable, however they do sit higher, even with the bases lowered all the way.... I'm 6'2" and my wife says i have a long Torso, but I fit just fine. But if your taller or have a longer torso, you may have to do more mods to the seat brackets to lower them. But like I said it was so easy I think it would have taken longer to remove the factory bracket and re-drill the wholes for these seats.
For some reason not all the pics are showing up, so here is the link to them.... F250 crew cab pictures from trucks photos on webshots
The front I sat in there where I thought I wanted them, hooked up the power so i could play with the adjustments and make sure, then marked and drilled my front holes. The driver side didn't need any mods to the brackets at all, I drilled two new holes for the front brackets, in the rear there was a sheet metal body cross member underneath where I wanted to put the holes, so I just cut a piece of angle iron and clearanced it for the movement of the tracks, drilled a hole in it for the original rear mounting stud and used it to retain the rear seat mounts. On the passenger side it was almost as easy but I did have to bend the front left (closest to the trans tunnel) bracket. Drilled the front two holes, did the same angle iron for the rear mount. Used the factory SD plugs and wired into the OBS power lumbar circuit.
The seats work great, I gave myself a little more leg room up front, but there is plenty of forward travel to give rear passengers more leg room if needed....but 95% no one rides behind me. Also I love the fold out rear load deck, I have already used it and it is NICE. The seats are way more comfortable, however they do sit higher, even with the bases lowered all the way.... I'm 6'2" and my wife says i have a long Torso, but I fit just fine. But if your taller or have a longer torso, you may have to do more mods to the seat brackets to lower them. But like I said it was so easy I think it would have taken longer to remove the factory bracket and re-drill the wholes for these seats.
For some reason not all the pics are showing up, so here is the link to them.... F250 crew cab pictures from trucks photos on webshots
Edit: just noticed everyone is having viewing problems. lol
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