Hi all,
I am looking to finish restoration on my 1976 F250 Ranger Highboy, and the next step is the seat. I have heard of people putting leather King Ranch bench seats in these trucks, but no one I have found has posted how they did it. I know its not gonna be a direct mount unfortunately, but I was looking to see if anyone may be able to help with ideas, or if somone who has done similar things would have pictures and possibly dimensions of custom mounts.
Thanks all

 

I've heard the rear seat from modern crew cabs are almost a direct bolt in by mounting original sliders to new seat. Don't know for certain though. I've looked at the rear seat in '11 F350 crew cab and taken some measurements, seems like it would work.

 

I know it says bucket seats, but it aint just bucket seats, might help you, certainly won't hurt to look.

Bucket seats for 1979 F150 - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums

 

I just put a rear CC seat out of a 94 in my 77 F250 4x, flip it over, swap the sliders, viola, bolt it in, did this years ago on my 66 F250 with a 95 CC rear seat, also put a front bench out of an 89 I believe in my other 66 F250 I have for sale, same process.

If you find the KR seats, basically you'll need to do a mock up, Rich, 77&79F250 responded to a post with many pics of different seats for reference, but basically your building a platform to bolt the newer seat to, not hard if you have some gray matter up top and ingenuity 😉

 

I’m working on 01(?) super cab front seats next. The floor pans are different (mines a ‘78 supercab 4x4), but since the sliders are tucked up close under the seats, it’s pretty straight forward; just building mounts/brackets.
Cardboard and 2x4s are your friends. Mock them up and sit in them before fabricating anything, I was surprised how big of a difference an inch high or low made (is what my wife said….; she’s short).

I have a rear out of an ‘18 super cab bolted up in the back now; a little snug for kids, but doable. Just cut triangle shaped flanges to bolt the OG locations, then set 1-5/8” unistrut on top front and back mounts, notched the round locator hubs on the bottom of the ‘18 brackets to fit in the strut, then just slid it around til it fit where I wanted, and tacked it there. The hardest part was the seat latches (folding seats).

i suspect yours won’t be much different, but check the overall depth of the seats to your cab dimensions, cause you may not have the leg room you want/need. I’ve read people have re used their existing brackets, but for me I need the fronts to be independent to make it easier to get in/out of the back.

 

Check out this thread, there are some install pics of rear seat out of a SD CC. And even a KR, you will need to be able to fabriciate the mounts or at least mounting the newer seats to the old 73-79 sliders. Reusing your OEM sliders is the easiest that way, that you do not have to drill a bunch of differnet holes in the floor.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...1979-f150.html