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I’ve just picked up a ‘76 extra cab and it has fairly mediocre bucket seats in front. I’m interested in putting a bench in there, and obviously needs to flip forward to allow access to the back. All I’ve managed to find online are seat parts, no complete seats, and not even all the parts needed to assemble a complete seat. Any leads, or am I relegated to salvage yards and online used parts listings? Well ok, I have found one source of complete benches but all of them were trying to be new style fancy bucket/console looking things lol
The SUPERCABS came stock with a 50/50 split-bench seat. I've never seen reproductions. I think that 78/79 bronco's are the same. You probably just need to visit the salvage yard.
I have a SC bench I won't be using as im going to use the cab on my 4x4 250, the hitch is that I'm currently out of the country & live in IA & it would need recovered with possibly new foam in the seat bottom. But it is a factory SC front seat.
Yea if you win the lottery check out TMI. Lol Pretty sure a 76 SUPERCAB (ext cab is not the correct terminology) did not come with OEM buckets, only a split folder bench. So sounds like the PO did something. And yes some 78/79 Bronco's came with the same split folder bench. All the way up to a 96 bench will bolt right in on a set of OEM bench slider tracks. Most bench seats of out 80/90's reg cab Ford trucks flip forward. You can put in WAY newer truck seats in it, if you are crafty. And then again most new seats are elec so you will need to address that too.
2005 seat in SC
2011
A rear seat out of a SD fits nice in a regular cab. I would imagine it would work in your Supercab.
01 SD
95 Eddie Bauer
96 Ford truck seat
If JY sourcing a seat you need the mount feet as flat/level (to each other, front to rear) as can be. I would think that a 2000 ish SD rear seat should be able to be sourced in Texas fairly easy. Do not forget to join you FTE Texas chapter. https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/forum96/ And reach out to instate folks to get a lead/info on possible local JY's.
If you want to oem style seat you'll most likely have to pull one from a yard. Then you'll have all the hardware. LMC used to sell a one piece foam pad for the bottom, and it ran about $400. Now I see they no longer have it. Maybe NPD still sells them? (National Parts Depot). Any upholstery shop can pad it up, and then either you can have a custom cover made, or buy a premade on LMC.
I believe the Bronco and SC have the same floor pan back to a point at the rear seat. The Bronco I had with bucket seats, the passenger seat was the only one that slid and tipped forward, drivers side only slid forward. I've worked on dentside Broncos that had bench seat and saw them on others. Usually were Customs and not Rangers.
I have a 1979 bronco and a 1979 f-150. The supercab has the bench seat and the bronco had factory buckets. I replaced the buckets with seats out of a Ford Escape mounted on the bronco seat hardware, I wanted to still be able to flip the passenger seat forward. Console is from a late model f-150. The problem I had was getting the seats low enough, I'm on the tall side and didn't want my head in the headliner.
For the supercab the bench needed new seat bottom foam but I couldn't justify what they cost, that and I couldn't find just the front seat cover, had to buy the bronco set and get rear seats covers I didn't want. So I found a cheap seat cover that goes over the factory covers on E-bay, looks and works fine.
Funny thing is that the seats in the bronco are way more comfortable, being able to recline the back is something I didn't think would be a huge deal, but it is. I'll be checking out the local u-pull-its next week.
What i found after reading through this , and my trip to the pick and pull .
I found an 03 Super Duty Crew Cab Lariat , leather rear seat.
paid 50.00 and took it home .
Removed the stock seat , and tracks .
Measured the track width on my stock seat, compared to the new seat ....Superduty seat tracks are wider .
Reinstalled my tracks to the cab floor loosely, and set the Superduty seat onto them , squared up and made marks where the tracks set.
I will make something to not only raise the seat a bit , but also be safe and easy to remove .
What I have found so far, is the .out that came on the new seat , is 1 1/2 " thick which should be about perfect , drill some new holes and procure bolts and nuts.
I will get back to you with my results and pictures .
Here is what I did for almost the same seat. 1" Square tubing and a double piece on the end to be able to use both rear bolts and so the tube would not have a rocky feeling on top of the new carpet. Yes longer grade 8 bolts and remember to use some anti-seize on them.
Every thing test fitted.
I welded the small piece to the long piece.
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