[TheJackal]

My 95 F250 does not have a vertical seat adjustment. I like to sit high in my vehicles, and am kind of annoyed with having to sit down low. Do any of the f-series have vertical adjustment seats? Or has anybody simply raised theirs somehow with washers or something?

Austin

 

[pigdog]

I don't know of any with vertical adjustments. I would think you could probably shim it up with washers though, without to many problems.

 

[DBogo]

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[Knothead]

If your driver's seat is sitting low because of sagging, you can put some cardboard between the foam and the springs. This will raise you up some........

 

[AggiePSD]

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If your driver's seat is sitting low because of sagging, you can put some cardboard between the foam and the springs. This will raise you up some........

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Ditto, I love it. Used the corrugated plastic board that is used for signs. Raised the seat up to just the right height and firmness.

 

[TheJackal]

Awesome, Ill try both ideas.

 

[arizonaonion]

The seat back on my truck felt kinda funny, so I yanked the seat out and pulled both covers off. I found a broken weld in the seat back and a broken spring wire in the seat bottom. Replacing the seat back cover was tricky until I bagged it with a garbage bag.

Bill

 

[milner351]

I put a '02 seat in an '88 and it sat at least 1.5" taller than the old '88 seat, almost too high, I'm 6ft1", my brother in law is 6ft6" his head touched the roof.

I've had several seats in and out of trucks, taurus seats, different truck seats.

I've learned that car seats don't work well in trucks unless you put the seats onto the truck tracks somehow.

I am going to modify my stock seat as described here with the plastic/cardboard to keep the seat foam from going through the springs, and I will look into the seat structure as well.

The P/O of my truck was a 900lb gorilla, I'm sure there is structural damage in the seat, he ripped the inside door handle mount right out of the sheet metal of the door and busted the transfer case linkage in two! Like I said, mine was a bit rough when I got it!

 

[Stan2]

Just did my seat last weekend before a 1000 mile trip. It was sagged out on the left side and the lumbar brace (3 inch curved piece) was broken on both sides. The previous owner also was a 'bigger' individual. I used self tapping screws to re-secure the lumbar brace and then added a soft piece of foam between it and the air bladders.

I then took a piece of panelling from the back of my old entertainment center and cut it to fit between the foam and spring wires. I then shimmed up the left side with pieces of carpet.

Re-installed and it is way firmer and much taller. A little to tall. I probably could have stopped at one piece of carpet in stead of three.

It was very comfortable to drive but did impair my vision a bit as I had to look 'under' the top of the window to see traffic lights.

Over all though I took a 200 K seat and made it feel like a new one.

As well, a friend of mine who is vertically challenged did raise his seat using spacers.

 

[milner351]

You know I had thought of using a melamine type material as well, but wondered if it would be too stiff. At 220lb or so, I'm more worried about it being too soft, not too hard! I'm not sure if the melamine would hold up over time, but it sure sounds like it's working ok for you.

Wish me luck, I'm headed out to put a newly rebuilt injector in #3 from Bean, hopefully this is the end of miss issue with this truck!