{"id":34914,"date":"2024-03-24T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=34914"},"modified":"2024-03-24T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:28:54","slug":"1999-ford-f150-seat-swap-for-buckets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2024\/03\/1999-ford-f150-seat-swap-for-buckets","title":{"rendered":"1999 Ford F150 seat swap for buckets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a 1999 ford f150 extended cab with 60 \/40 bench seat. I want to switch the bench out to bucket seats. How difficult is it to do this. Do I have to change out the mounting brackets and do anything else<\/p>\n\n\n

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Seats with brackets and possibly the seat belts. I’ve added the seat removal instructions for reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEAT, REPLACE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FRONT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Remove buckle bolts (1), Fig. 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Feed buckle assembly up through top of seat cushion and remove front seat safety belt buckles, Fig. 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Feed lefthand driver buckle and center passenger tongue assembly up through top of seat cushion and remove front seat safety belt buckle\/tongue assembly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Remove front seat bolts (1), Fig. 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Remove front seat nuts (2), Fig. 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Disconnect electrical connectors if equipped and remove front seat, Fig. 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Reverse procedure to install. Note following:
    a. Torque seat belt mounting bolts to 35 ft. lbs.
    b. Torque seat mounting bolts to 35 ft. lbs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    I have a 1999 ford f150 extended cab with 60 \/40 bench seat. I want to switch the bench out to bucket seats. How difficult is it to do this. Do I have to change out the mounting brackets and do anything else Seats with brackets and possibly the seat belts. I’ve added the seat… Read More »1999 Ford F150 seat swap for buckets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13719,"featured_media":81381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}