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Idahome
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Went to the junk yard in search of some seats.....found them! Also found a center console so I do not have to use one of mine from my collection.
We snagged some seats from a really really clean 96 Explorer. Of course they are still junk yard seats so they needed some major cleaning.
But first the bases, how do you put 96 explorer seats into a 98 ranger? Well I do it like this:
First off you need to remove the stock seat sliders from your old ranger 60/40 seat.
This is quite a chore!!
Starts off looking like this
keep unbolting things until you have one of these lying on the floor
The drivers stock seat slider.
Now it needs some modifications in order to bolt onto the bottom of the explorer bucket seat, we need to cut a bunch of rivets
The reason we cut the rivets is we are only after the slider portion of these seat tracks. We do not need the recline mechanism or the seat pivot points.
Also the Ranger seat bolts are 11" apart, the explorer are 14" apart which is exactly the width of the seat tracks at the sliders.
So the top piece of metal in this metal sandwich needs to be removed.
Now we have two sliders and all rivets are MIA
Need to drill one hole 13-7/8" from center to center from the rear most hole forward, these will be the new mounting holes to the explorer seat
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I build custom RBV, specializing in drivetrain conversions, wiring, suspension and complete custom trucks