95/96 reg/ext cab interior compatability and airbag question

[Nitrodude]

So my truck is a 96 regular cab with a shot interior (previous owner spray painte everything..)
I finally found a donor truck on my area with a decent interior (one crack on dash above radio bezel) everything else looks good.

What I need to know is, will the 96 ext cabs complete dashboard, door panels, seats, center console, steering wheel, etc work in my 96 reg cab?
Only thing I noticed was his door panels have a pocket along the bottom and mine are flat.
Also want to try to cut the carpet to fit my truck as well.


And finally-my truck has a small ricer racing steering week from the previous owner. With no horn or air bag.
So my air bag light is constantly on.
The 95 ext cab truck has a stock steering wheel and air bag (except it has cruise control buttons on it instead of on the column)
Will I be okay plugging in the new air bag? I don't want to plug it in and have it go off on me.

Need to figure this out ASAP. I'm supposed to pick up the parts this Sunday.

 

[Ruffinit]

While I can't answer about the airbags, the rest of the interior will work fine. The carpet may be a challenge though.

 

[Nitrodude]

Great!!
My biggest concern was the seats (think his might be 4x4 also)
I figured the dash and panels would work but wanted to be sure.

Hopefully someone with airbag experience can chime in here-hooking it up has me pretty nervous

 

[Ruffinit]

You might find the proper procedure in a Haynes or Chilton's manual for removing the steering wheel.

 

[Nitrodude]

I've found the procedure to remove an airbag and wheel.

What I'm worried about is replacing a non existing air bag (previous owner removed the stock wheel and airbag and I'm not sure why)

If possibly the stock airbag was deployed and a sensor wasn't replaced or reset (not sure how these things really work) that my new airbag will deploy on startup or something

 

[saskbill]

Seats could present a minor challenge.

Extended cab seat tracks extend ... back into the extended cab area (which your regular cab doesn't have.

Hopefully your existing seat tracks are in decent shape and can bolt onto the bottom of the ext cab ones (more problematic if they are fancy power seats etc)

Good Luck!

 

[Nitrodude]

Seats could present a minor challenge.

Extended cab seat tracks extend ... back into the extended cab area (which your regular cab doesn't have.

Hopefully your existing seat tracks are in decent shape and can bolt onto the bottom of the ext cab ones (more problematic if they are fancy power seats etc)

Good Luck!

So the seats will NOT bolt on??
The previous owner of my truck tried to put explorer bucket seats in place of the original bench seat and hacked the explorer brackets up (only 1 bolt per seat holding them down)

So using existing brackets isn't an option. I need bolt in replacements.

 

[saskbill]

A relevent thread currently ongoing about seats in a standard cab:

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148794

Towards the end of the thread, they refer to the tech article on seat swapping from non-RBV Fords.

Gist of it:

It is generally possible. If you want to put a pair of bucket-type seats in a standard cab ranger, you need a pair of sets of tracks FOR A STANDARD CAB RANGER (Bench seats only use on rail per side, and are not suitable to mount buckets on; extended cab seats use different rails, as apparently do Bronco IIs).

Most common non-bench seat track donors for standard cabs are apparently 60/40 split bench type - if you find a set of good buckets wellmounted in a standard cab (2 or more bolts holding down each rail! ), hop in try 'em out then grab them seats, rails and all if you can and you like them. Otherwise, get the rails! (work quick if you are in a Walmart parking lot, not a wrecking yard! )

I take it you were supposed to pick up parts LAST Sunday so this advice comes a bit late. What did you end up with seatwise?

Disclaimer: I have played with seats in 2nd and third gen EXTENDED cab Rangers, and nosed around the local wrecking yard a good bit the last few years. No hands-on experience with changing out seats in reg cab,just what I read in these forums!

 

[Nitrodude]

Your advice is still greatly helpful!
I didn't end up grabbing the interior pieces last Sunday (although it was a good deal for the lot-it didn't seem worth it since the main things I wanted wouldn't really work (seats, carpet and headliner)
Plus the dash ha a crack on it.

So back to square one and looking for a new interior.
Ill post some pics up later of mine to show how bad it really is.
Like said the seats arnt really bolted in-at all.
Flooring is a rubber floor (not that bad but prefer carpet) headliner is badly vinyl wrapped and then spray painted black.
Door panels, pillars and dash is all spray painte black (even over lights) and is pealing/chipping. Plus overspray on the windshield.

Unfortunate that the previous owner thought he could "customize" this poor ranger with only 71k miles on it.
I have an appointment with the exhaust shop to finally fix the exhaust that's cut off at the cat.
Next thing is redoing the rear brake line and then restart the hunt for a new interior.

 

[Nitrodude]

New question.

Found a 2011 reg cab ranger interior.
Will the seats and other parts work out of this?