I couldn't find another thread about this but right now I have two bucket seats
in my 89 bronco. they are in terrible condition and I do have access to a bench
seat out of a 1976 f100 truck. I heard that holes were pre-drilled so you can
swap a bench seat in place of bucket seats from a friend of mine. But what
about as early as a 76 f100 bench seat.
I put a bench seat from a '91 F150 Super Cab in my '91 Bronco and yeah the
holes and/or captive nuts were already there. I didn't use the nuts, I punched
those sorry suckers out and used 7/16" grade-8 bolts and large thick washers
and double nutted the bolts from underneath.
But the floor is different in the '76 than a '91 so you need the "legs" that match
the floor of your rig.
The legs/stands swap and fit the "seat portion" no sweat...
That rusty one is the seat from a '75 F100 Super Cab and the new looking
one is the one I took out of the '91 F150 Super Cab.
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What that picture's about is how crappy the springs are in the newer seat
and how Ford effectively left out -half- the springs. The '91 seat sucked!
Hurt my stepfather's bad-back and hurt my good-back too!
It really sucked!
No kidding.
Anyway, I've got the old bucket seats from my '91... {edit} the stands
on the bucket seats floor-bolt-holes are spaced different front-to-back
than the stands on the '91's bench seat. That means drilling holes and
nothing more, looks like to me. Mas details manana if needed?
Alvin in AZ
ps- Had to make provisions for the left out springs...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/seat-springs1.jpg
The square-wave looking springs are practically worthless
and definitely made from a lower quality of music wire.
pps-
How much work will this be if any?
That -totally- depends on your attitude.
Fun and cool as anything from my point-of-view because bench seats rock!