SCORE!
I've been looking to upgrade from these 60/40 seats forever. Every time a nice set of Ranger or Explorer buckets popped up, they were always gone by the time I messaged the person. Not this time! And this is one of the nicest sets I've seen. These were from a 96 ext cab. I found these on craigslist just under an hour away for a fair price including the shorty console. The drivers side is fully power, the passenger side just has power lumbar. I don't think I'm going to retain the power functions, but more on that later.
I did the passenger side first because I knew it'd be a little simpler. In this picture you can see that my regular cab brackets used a different hole than the ext cab brackets did. No big deal though since the hole was already there. I just had to tap them out on both sides, I believe the bolts are M8x1.25.
And with that done, I installed it and worked on the driver's side. The drivers side track bolted right on, I didn't have to tap any of the other holes.
At this point I realized I couldn't use the original seat belt brackets because they were in the way for where the console was going to be. I just took the seatbelt brackets off of the ext cab brackets and bolted them right to the seats, again using an existing hole.
I did have to drill it out larger first, then I tapped it to M12x1.75 I believe.
Thanks for all the extra holes Ford

it was meant to be!
Next up I started on the console. I got excited when I saw those dimples in the floor thinking they might line up with the bracket holes, but they didn't quite line up and it would've been too far forward for my liking. Instead I pushed it back as far as I could and just used some sheet metal screws to bolt it down.
And the (almost) finished product! The only thing left is to fasten down the front of the console. Unfortunately I didn't realize the guy didn't give me the front bracket, but that's no big deal because I don't think it would've worked with how I pushed the console back anyway. I'm just going to run two sheet metal screws in the front to hold it down, they'll be hidden under the cupholders so I think that'll be just fine.
I'll knock that out tomorrow, and then I plan on pulling the seats back out and giving them a deep clean as well as cleaning up underneath the seats, it's pretty gnarly under there. I didn't want to do all of this first because I needed to have the seats in by the end of the weekend and I wasn't sure how difficult it would be or how many issues I would run into. But that ended up being a super simple swap!
Whether or not to use the power functions -
with my manual tracks on these seats, obviously the power sliding function no longer exists on the drivers side. Also, since these were from a 2dr ext cab, they have a manual lever to tilt the seats forward for access to the back. This works perfectly because I can use them for the tilt function of the seat. So, the only thing I'd really gain out of powering these up would be the lumbar adjustment, and I guess more fine tuning of the driver's side tilt. But, I'm not sure that's really worth the effort at least for me because I rarely move the seats and don't mind having to do it manually when I do. I'll give it some time and think on it, if I decide against using the power I'll probably strip everything out of them and find a way to cover the holes for the power switches because I think having them there on a manual seat looks like crap lol.