I goy a 99f150 & my driver side seat is all tore up going to pick & pull sun but don't know what years will fit with no mods just bolt in
the seat is a 40/60 bench seat with the big cup holder in middle & the truck is an ex cab 4 door ,don't know if that makes a diff or not but on a ranger it does
thx noel

 

any luck on this? I also have a really junky seat on a 2000 f150 lariat I bought. I was wondering what else would fit. Maybe expedition seats?

 

I wondered about that too. Here's what I have found so far, and why I'm interested.

I'd like to put captain's chairs on both sides to fit a console in the middle. Then I can put a 12V outlet in for people in the backseat and have a place to house an amp and a sub. I don't like the ones that go under the rear seat, because when I need the rear floor space, I can't use it.

So, that said, all of the seats I have found are worn out. Even when the fabric or leather is good, the cushion is crushed. I've seen youtube videos about how to "revive" the foam, but it looks to be a temporary fix, at best. There was somebody on Ebay selling lower cushions for the driver seat for about $125 and I was considering that, but then the console thing came up and I held off on ordering one. Still am holding off.

The Expy seats appear to be a little different. Since the console is fairly low, and a bit narrow, IMHO, the seats have built-in armrests. I'm not sure I like that. I think I would rather have the console a little taller and put the armrest in that, like on the 40/60 seat.

Another thing I am not sure about is whether there are nuts/bungs already there for putting a captain's chair on the passenger side. I know that wasn't your goal with just replacing the driver seat, but it might be useful in the even that you can't find any good 40/60 seats and decide to pursue changing both.

I hope you find something suitable!

Dave

 

I hope you find something too. I wouldn't mind having two captain chairs or buckets... I am also considering just going with the really nice wet okole seat covers I saw in cabelas catalog. I was going to do more stuff like a wheel tire package etc... but I just had the brakes done all the way around and upper/lower ball joints so my budget is getting limited at this point.

 

Dave, too bad you didn't live closer to me (Green Bay, WI) I'd sell you my Captains seats for $3500 or best offer, and I'd throw in my 1999 Ford F-150 4x4 Super Cab. :-)

I just bought a brand spanking new 2003 Ford FX4 and I say new, because it IS new to me and the fact that it only has 59624 original miles on it..and it has those ugly 60/40 split seats! I really do like my captain's seats.

I want to say that the bung under the carpeting should be the same...be weird if they changed them just for different seat bolt patterns.

Jerry

 

I put expo seats in my 99 xl super cab. All the holes are there just some of them need tapped out. Picked them up at the local u-pullit scrapper.

 

Ended up with a set of buckets from a '02 F150. The wiring is different, though, so I don't have them installed. I don't know what the differences are, but I wonder if the '02 had a memory setting? There are 8 or so wires as part of the main harness. My '00 only has 2 wires. The shape of the seatbelt plug is different, too. I'll have to look at my book when I get a chance, but so far Google hasn't turned up any good wiring diagrams of either.

 

If you can find a good drivers seat that has a good cover on it, but the seat cushion is bad, you can take apart the lower seat portion and swap it with a good cushion from a passenger side captains chair. As long as they are the same style bottoms, the foam cushion will fit. You can also look at seats from the Expedition or Lincoln full size suv of the same vintage.

 

Well, the seats I picked up are definitely not from a full size truck. The mounting brackets are nowhere near the same. The bottom cushion is over an inch, maybe two, thinner, and the wiring is very different. The base mounts to the seat with a different bolt pattern, too. So, what this means is that I'm going to have to do some customizing! I'll add a spacer between my base and the new seat and that will allow me to match up the holes. Next task is figuring out the wiring. There has to be a way to adapt what the new seat has to the truck. Just have to figure it out!

 

Well, I never have figured out what these seats really came out of, but the seat tracks work the same way. So, I ended up taking them off of the old base and putting them on the base of the newer seats. I was going to just swap the entire base from one to the other, but the seatback of the new seats are attached there. In the end, when raised all the way up, the new seats are in about the same spot as the old, based on being able to see with the mirrors. I was going to take some pics, but it was getting late and I was trying to work between rain showers, so I'll try to take pics of the leftovers.

 

FYI, I pulled power seat racks out of an expedition for my 98. I had a crushed drivers side cushion so I thought why not. A passenger seat cushion out of the expy works fine on the drivers side just like leas said. But If you go power, you need the bottom cushion metal seat shell. The non power shelll has bolt holes in the wrong place.

Oh, and my truck had no wiring on the p-side so grab the connectors off the donor espy as well.