Seat Swap Questions

Damon Toth · Sep 21, 2015

I picked up a set of 1994 Explorer full power bucket seat to install in my 1989 ranger supercab. The explorer seat brackets do not line up with the ranger floor pan, has any one completed this swap and have pictures showing how they were mounted?
I have search and have not found any thing that has photos.

Thanks

Damon Toth · Sep 22, 2015

If I switch the seat tracks I lose the power motors and functions.

hank857 · Sep 22, 2015

I have a 94 and the seats from explorer bolted right in. I also bought seats from and eddie baurer edition so I could add power seat for passenger, but the 1st set were nicer so I just bolted the better seat to the power rails.

Now the cab floors may (probably are) different so you just might have to drill new holes and fabricate what ya need to make them work. Dont know what the cabs of the older models are like. did ya check the tech section they have a seat interchange there.

Damon Toth · Sep 22, 2015

yes, I thought that all supercab floors and seat tracks were the same. I know that the 1989 rangers did come with the manual buckets with power lumbar and side bolsters, but not power tracks, these seats are hard to come by.

Thanks for the replies

saskbill · Sep 24, 2015

If you want to make this bolt-in happen, you need to go to a pick-a-part and find a mid-90s (93 and up) ranger. If you dig down (remove seats & carpet) you will find a cross-mounted sheet-metal hump spotwelded to the floor where the front of the seat bracket bolts go in. Drill the spotwelds, take the hump back to your Ranger, and temporarily bolt in the new seats to locate where the hump has to sit (remember to allow for carpet/floormat thickness. Tak the hump in place, then remove the seats and anything else flammable and weld down the hump. Your seats should now be bolt-in.

I did this to put mid-90s buckets in my '91

Damon Toth · Sep 24, 2015

thanks for the info, I now what to look for.

Oldog4tz · Nov 22, 2015

I just put buckets from a 2000 Explorer into my 97 XL. Easy short afternoon project. Locating the rails took awhile. Reading the threads, I knew that I needed 93-97 rails. What wasn't clear was that 60/40 rails are fine. Locating a 60/40 donor seat was much easier, and i picnpulled them this morning for $15. Now just need a console

85_Ranger4x4 · Nov 24, 2015

saskbill said:
If you want to make this bolt-in happen, you need to go to a pick-a-part and find a mid-90s (93 and up) ranger. If you dig down (remove seats & carpet) you will find a cross-mounted sheet-metal hump spotwelded to the floor where the front of the seat bracket bolts go in. Drill the spotwelds, take the hump back to your Ranger, and temporarily bolt in the new seats to locate where the hump has to sit (remember to allow for carpet/floormat thickness. Tak the hump in place, then remove the seats and anything else flammable and weld down the hump. Your seats should now be bolt-in.

I did this to put mid-90s buckets in my '91

Or find seat brackets out of a second gen scab with buckets or 60/40 split bench and put them on the Explorer seats.

I have tracks out of a '91 (std cab 60/40) in my '85 (std cab) and Explorer buckets bolted right on them.

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