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Originally Posted by gnxtc2
How did you mount the seats? Did you drill new holes or used some type of adapter plate to line up to the stock holes. Any pics of the mounting means?
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Due to the Super Duty seats sitting a little higher than the OE seats, using an adapter would have caused the seats to sit higher than I wanted.
Place the new seats (with uncut brackets) into the cab area once all OE seats and carpet was removed. Be sure the seat it not slid all the way to the front or rear. I chose a neutral position. From that you can get an idea of where you want them to sit. It just so happened for me that where I wanted them to sit would work great once I flattened the mounting brackets. That's why I cut the triangles out of them. Then, lay them flat and weld. Next, I placed them back into the cab and marked the holes with a Sharpie. I then drilled out those holes. Put the seats back in and bolt to the floor.
We just ran some 7/16" bolts through the floor and secured with lock nuts. This would be impossible with one person, so make sure you have someone in the cab to help you. You could go one step further and just tack the bolts to the floor from the under side of the truck, but I am hoping these seats never come back out again, so it wasn't that big of a deal to me. Plus, they're much less permanent this way if for some strange reason I needed to go back to OE seats.
I didn't take any pictures of the mounts, because there's just really nothing to see. Just a bolt through the floor.
