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Old 04-01-2009 | 10:31 AM
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I want to replace my bench seat that is all one piece with the 60/40 seat that had the armrest in the middle.

What do I need off the other truck to do this? Will I need to change the mounting points in the cab? My only concern is that since the Split Bench is 2 pieces instead of one possibly it doesn't mount to the cab in the same places.
 
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Old 04-01-2009 | 12:42 PM
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Why don't you look at a 60/40 seat and answer that question yourself?
 
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Old 04-01-2009 | 02:43 PM
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theres four or five mounting holes on each of the outside two seats. between them are four upside down looking L brackets with four mounting points on them for the armrest seat... not sure how else to explain it
 
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Old 04-01-2009 | 05:48 PM
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What about a 40/20/40 like every other Ram has?
 
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Old 04-02-2009 | 09:21 AM
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If I had the truck to look at I would definitely be able to figure it out. I'm also not sure what other seats came in the trucks, I just know that most of them have some sort of seat that is more than one piece. Being that mine is a work truck it has the base bench seat that is all one piece (moving the seat back/forth moves the whole thing).

Now, I checked and on the floor there are 2 pieces cut out of the Vinyl floor that are obviously mount mounts for another type of seat. So that sort of answers my question that I would need to drill out these holes to install a split bench seat.

Aside from that, it would appear that there isn't a problem mounting them so long as I can get the totally rusted mounting bolts off. Probably a case of breaking them and drilling them out, my last truck every bolt I had to remove was a drill out job.
 
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Old 04-02-2009 | 10:48 AM
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Not sure where you'll find a bench seat like that to even fit in it. Might be able to get something from JCW.
 
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Old 11-19-2009 | 06:24 PM
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Was going to post this in "What did you do to your RAM today?", but thought it would be better tied to this thread.

This is a refit of '04 buckets to my bench frame. Soooo glad to be done, but a huge improvement!

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Old 11-19-2009 | 06:30 PM
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Thats good lookin. Nice job.
 
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Old 11-19-2009 | 06:31 PM
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man i want a set of those.
do the adjustment buttons work?
 
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Old 11-19-2009 | 10:11 PM
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That is so damn sexy...

How difficult and costly was that project?
 


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