Adding power to front bench
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Adding power to front bench
Hi. New member here. I just picked up a clean 2004 Excursion with 64K miles on it, my first Ex. It has the 40/20/40 split cloth bench seat, which I can live with, but I'd like to add power to the seats. I was wondering if I could use power seat tracks from a bucket seat Excursion/250/350 or will I need to find a power bench from one of them? Thanks in advance for any info. Jeff
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No power bench that I know of, but if you want to get rid of the bench post it up for trade and I'm sure someone on here will be happy to swap with you 
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Thanks. I added my location, Winchester, VA. I'm not sure I want to ditch the bench. I might consider it if I could get the same condition seats in return. I figured that there aren't many bench seat Excursions and that they probably didn't come with power, but I thought they may have put power bench seats in some of the Lariat versions of the F250/350. Of course, they may be leather, but I could work around that. I was mostly looking for the power tracks and thought I could just swap out the seat portion. I just wasn't sure if the captains seats had the same tracks as the bench or not.
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Based on how the bench seats I've seen work with the slide feature, I don't think you're going to find anything off the shelf or even retrofit. 90% certain you'll be piecing together your own kit. That and bench seats were sort of the base model in anything built ever...
I don't think there's something out there that's strong enough to take care of the leverage of the seat PLUS weight on passengers - ever notice the driver side tends to kick forward or backward first when adjusting the position? You'd need to rig up a motor per side and wire them to work simultaneously to avoid any nasty bind.
I don't think there's something out there that's strong enough to take care of the leverage of the seat PLUS weight on passengers - ever notice the driver side tends to kick forward or backward first when adjusting the position? You'd need to rig up a motor per side and wire them to work simultaneously to avoid any nasty bind.
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Based on how the bench seats I've seen work with the slide feature, I don't think you're going to find anything off the shelf or even retrofit. 90% certain you'll be piecing together your own kit. That and bench seats were sort of the base model in anything built ever...
I don't think there's something out there that's strong enough to take care of the leverage of the seat PLUS weight on passengers - ever notice the driver side tends to kick forward or backward first when adjusting the position? You'd need to rig up a motor per side and wire them to work simultaneously to avoid any nasty bind.
I don't think there's something out there that's strong enough to take care of the leverage of the seat PLUS weight on passengers - ever notice the driver side tends to kick forward or backward first when adjusting the position? You'd need to rig up a motor per side and wire them to work simultaneously to avoid any nasty bind.
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That's what I get for not reading everything properly 
I believe your research is correct with the seats not being a direct swap - however I think the 40 seats bolt up and the 20 center is the one that doesn't bolt down on either the front or the rear, I can't remember. We've had some people go from captain's and a console to a split bench with good success.
I believe your research is correct with the seats not being a direct swap - however I think the 40 seats bolt up and the 20 center is the one that doesn't bolt down on either the front or the rear, I can't remember. We've had some people go from captain's and a console to a split bench with good success.
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Jeff, was your EX originally a municipal service (Police/Fire) rig? Does it have the rubber floor liner instead of carpets? Does it have both rear heat and air conditioning? That front bench seat is pretty rare and I think most if not all the EXs that came that way were the special service rigs. Any pictures of your rig to share?
A few folks here have removed their center consoles and installed the fixed center seat/console from the pickups, I think you may find that your outboard 40% seat do share common mounting points with standard captains chairs.
A few folks here have removed their center consoles and installed the fixed center seat/console from the pickups, I think you may find that your outboard 40% seat do share common mounting points with standard captains chairs.
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Jeff, was your EX originally a municipal service (Police/Fire) rig? Does it have the rubber floor liner instead of carpets? Does it have both rear heat and air conditioning? That front bench seat is pretty rare and I think most if not all the EXs that came that way were the special service rigs. Any pictures of your rig to share?
A few folks here have removed their center consoles and installed the fixed center seat/console from the pickups, I think you may find that your outboard 40% seat do share common mounting points with standard captains chairs.
A few folks here have removed their center consoles and installed the fixed center seat/console from the pickups, I think you may find that your outboard 40% seat do share common mounting points with standard captains chairs.
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Nice, you found a real sweet rig there! 
Mine was an Army Corps of Engineers vehicle with just the basic XLT options including front/rear heat & AC and the cloth 3 rows but we have front buckets.
Mine was an Army Corps of Engineers vehicle with just the basic XLT options including front/rear heat & AC and the cloth 3 rows but we have front buckets.
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Thanks. One of the best parts about it is that the previous owner is a Mercedes mechanic and over the last couple of years, he replaced the tie rod ends, spark plugs at 50K, new ProStop cross-drilled, slotted rotors and pads with braided stainless brake hoses, plus Bilstein 5100 series all around, including the steering dampener. He also swapped the 3:73 gears for 4:30s. About the only thing I really need to do to it is upgrade the springs, since I'll be towing our TT with it. I'll probably give ATS a call soon. They seem to come highly recommended here.
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