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Seating Help
I know certain members stalk the guys who put seating questions in and i stayed up and read all that i could find about my truck and still have yet to find an answer to my questions i have a 1992 f350 crew cab dually conversion truck (no i dont know the company) well it has fancy seats in it like the one that vsales sell with the wood cupholder in the fold down console now to me the conversion sites im looking at the van seats are the same as the truck seats or atleast they look like it my question is this my seats are shot in my truck would a factory ford conversion van captains chairs would fit in place of my poor beat down seats any help would be wonderful my current seats look like the link below. I say conversion truck meaning its got wood trim nice seating ground effects it could possably be a centurion conversion here is a few pics of my seats if anyone can help me with this
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Is it a Centurion conversion perhaps? And is it really a conversion crew cab? If so, what did it start out as before being converted?
Regardless, I don't think any of us will be able to definitively help you without seeing what you've got. That said, I'm not aware of people using the E-series van seats in a truck - I've not read anything which says the mounting configurations are shared.
Regardless, I don't think any of us will be able to definitively help you without seeing what you've got. That said, I'm not aware of people using the E-series van seats in a truck - I've not read anything which says the mounting configurations are shared.
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What is the conversion part? Is it a crew cab short bed (not available from Ford until 96), crew cab with Bronco rear/trunk, etc?
I'm guessing here, but I would assume that your crew cab conversion still utilizes a factory style crew cab floor pan (or entire crew cab from Ford). It'd be extra unneeded work for them to fabricate their own floor pan when Ford builds one they can use.
If that's the case, any standard cab or crew cab seats should drop in with little to no modification necessary.
I'm guessing here, but I would assume that your crew cab conversion still utilizes a factory style crew cab floor pan (or entire crew cab from Ford). It'd be extra unneeded work for them to fabricate their own floor pan when Ford builds one they can use.
If that's the case, any standard cab or crew cab seats should drop in with little to no modification necessary.
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Its a conversation of some sort in the sense that some company took it added some wood trim and a fancy seat set as far as I can tell it still retains the factory bench seat mounting set up but I have my heart set on Eddie Bauer bronco seats could I just need to drill my mounting holes on the two inner bolts
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Its a conversation of some sort in the sense that some company took it added some wood trim and a fancy seat set as far as I can tell it still retains the factory bench seat mounting set up but I have my heart set on Eddie Bauer bronco seats could I just need to drill my mounting holes on the two inner bolts
Any way, the Bronco shares the floorpan with the Extended Cab, and that makes it different (Vs. Regular & Crew cab) from a seat-mounting standpoint. Depending on how those after-market seats are mounted and the tracks used, you might be able to just use the seats (no tracks) from the Bronco, but I can't know that without seeing the bottom side of what you've got there.
You *could* drill new holes and use the Bronco seats w/ tracks, but the seats would likely sit a bit too high.
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I can confirm that bronco seats fit in a supercab. I installed 90 bronco seats in my 97 F250HD. I can also confirm that those same seats did NOT fit in a single cab truck without adding blocks in the back to level the seat out.
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Depending on how the conversion company mounted the seats, depends on the ease of swapping on other seats.
The easiest way and safest way to mount van seats, is get out a tape measure and make sure they will fit FIRST.
Then If they will , get a 40-20-40 seat pan to mount them to. then bolt the seat pan into your truck, DONE
The easiest way and safest way to mount van seats, is get out a tape measure and make sure they will fit FIRST.
Then If they will , get a 40-20-40 seat pan to mount them to. then bolt the seat pan into your truck, DONE
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Indeed this is the easiest/best way to mount bucket seats in a regular or crew cab. Keep in mind it's most easily done using the matching factory rails. I may have a complete set (seat pan and rails), available if I chose to go a different route.
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