How to: 3rd row seating in a 1st & 2nd gen Explorer

[BruceExploder]

Sorry for bumping an old thread but last month I took about 3 days and 12 hours of fabricating a 3rd row for my 2000 Mountaineer. Im thinking about making a build thread for it soon too as well.

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Please do a how to.

 

[allmyEXes]

I have a RH rear seat out of a '94 4dr EB that I have considered modifying into a 3rd row seat. As you fellow 4dr owners know it has hinged seat brackets that might could be partially reused to make it fold forward. Otherwise I would fab a simple seat frame similar to a school bus "double seat" frame and just bolt through the floor with reinforcing plates under the floor with lap belts attached.

 

[Stic-o]

There's a guy on Craigslist near me who has a 3rd row for a 2nd gen explorer, for 80 bucks.

 

[allmyEXes]

I would like to see what the seat looks like on CL. Was it an option? of all the 2nd gen that I have seen in the JYs, I have never seen one...

 

[Stic-o]

It's aftermarket...

(((( 3rd seat ford explorer ))))))))))

 

[allmyEXes]

IC

 

[koda2000]

I bought an aftermarket rear seat for a Wrangler once. It was made/sold by Wheel Horse. It was a total piece of crap. If you must have a 3rd row seat I like the way @5.0_Mounty did his. I didn't read his thread, but I hope he also reinforced the cargo area floor from underneath too. In an accident, the bolts would rip right out of the floor w/out reinforcement.

 

[MuscleJunkie]

Here is a photo of the third row that was available from the factory in the 1997 explorer

sold in Australia