Good day everyone, newbie here.
I am wondering if anyone has any experience or knowledge of swapping out my 78 f250 custom bench seat. I am looking at a pair of 2001 king ranch REAR BUCKETS AND CONSOLE.
thanks

 

It can be done, take your OEM seat sliders and put them on a frame (you are going to have to build it) to put it all on. And that is after you take all the KR seat slider stuff off the bottom of them. If you want to reuse the OEM slider bolt holes.

Or check out Corbeau seat brackets. https://corbeau.com/products/ford-f1...46417677123741

 

First off ..... WELCOME!

I put '86 Mercury Grand Marquis big 50/50 bucket seats with folding arm rests in my '77 years ago, still had to fill 4" between them with a console I made. Pre-internet days, lots of measuring, etc, but I still love them, even though on second set of covers not counting the original leather. It's doable and sure beats the original sagged bench.

Love the green, and the town looks like one would expect of Oatman, Az. or Austin. Nv. or some such place. Liking it.

 

Thanks so much. I can’t build something for the cost of that bracket from corbeau. I will go that direction

 

Thanks. I love the green too. The town is Cayucos Ca. A very small coastal town on the central coast. Right where hwy 1 turns to two lanes to Big Sur.

 

Well if you are considering Corbeau seat brackets...you might as well consider their bucket seats also. Note to self, that are not something to just jump up and slide into. You are steping up into the cab and climbing into them, for sure. But once you are in them, you are not sliding around.


Thread post #65 is his seat install. https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...e-build-5.html

https://shop.broncograveyard.com/Cor.../products/296/

 

I want to slide in and out. Plus the look of the older king ranch leather with the green truck will pop

 

I am looking for a pic of some KR seats in a dentside....now if I can just find them, they do look pretty sharp.

 

Well, not to sway you, but just to offer mount ideas for what you do wind up with. That front most black bar is 1/4" thick, 2" wide and spaced up off the floor near the ends with wood, since the 1980s. Right behind the belt buckle is a red like wise 1/4" thick angle, The lip of the angle also holds my behind seat storage in place. it too is spaced with wood to remain level.



Below are my 1986 Mercury seats, I cut the legs on the tracks and welded them to 1/4" flat bar that you see. Those are old seat covers.



Here you can see how the seat tracks I welded up set on the cross bars, a 3/8" bolt with washers hold them. The bolts near the center of the truck go through the floor too, nuts and washers under the floor. That's my newest seat covers. You can see that by changing bolt lengths, adding washers or spacers between the seat track bases and the bars on the floor, angle and room under the steering wheel can be adjusted to suit too.



Below is my new seat covers on my old seats, they pretty much stay all the way back unless I need to get something from behind one.



That is the center of a three section behind seat storage I built long ago, it sits behind the angle, the top has a few bolts into riv nuts in the cab back. The two sides have covers that the seat backs hold in place.



I had it all out a couple few years back to refurbish while the truck was getting long overdue refreshing. This is just as it was waiting for its refresh too.



Anyway, you mentioned making brackets, etc. Maybe something there helps? Take care and do post pics when done please, we like pics here.

 

Been there many times, have relatives there, just up from the market at the top of the street, I'll have to look for your dent next time there!