Lzwo
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- November 23, 2009
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- City, State
- Tallahassee, FL
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 Mountaineer 5.0L
Hello everybody. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about the cheapest way to install some easily removable 3rd row seats to my 97 Mounty 4 door.
This past weekend, my wife and I needed to transport 6 people (including 2 kids) on a daytrip and ended up having to take two cars. (Yeah, when family visits, find some way to get them out of the house stat!) Frustrating to have to spend lots of gas $$ simply b/c one seatbelt too few.
(Of course, the Mounty wasn't running this weekend anyway - see my post in the "whoops" section.)
So, I was thinking I'd like obtain some type of 3rd row seats that I could just easily mount on those few occasions when I need them, but leave them out the majority of the time.
From searching this (GREAT!) forum and online, it seems like there are a number of kits available to do this, but they seem to be in the $400 and up price range, and I'm not sure its worth spending that kind of coin for something I won't use more than a couple of times a year.
Any ideas on whether I could find one of these kits used or on ebay or from a junkyard? Anybody ever try to get some seats out of a minivan or something and modify them to fit? I don't have a welder or metal fabrication tools, so anything beyond hole drilling and bolting would be out of the picture.
It just seems like there would be some way to find something at a junkyard that would do the job - I know lots of minivans have removable seats, but I've never looked to see how they mount. But I would think if I could find some, I might could bolt the seats to a metal rail, then have the rail pre-drilled to match holes in the back of the truck that I could just bolt into and bam.
Anyhoo, thanks for the brainstorming help.
This past weekend, my wife and I needed to transport 6 people (including 2 kids) on a daytrip and ended up having to take two cars. (Yeah, when family visits, find some way to get them out of the house stat!) Frustrating to have to spend lots of gas $$ simply b/c one seatbelt too few.
(Of course, the Mounty wasn't running this weekend anyway - see my post in the "whoops" section.)
So, I was thinking I'd like obtain some type of 3rd row seats that I could just easily mount on those few occasions when I need them, but leave them out the majority of the time.
From searching this (GREAT!) forum and online, it seems like there are a number of kits available to do this, but they seem to be in the $400 and up price range, and I'm not sure its worth spending that kind of coin for something I won't use more than a couple of times a year.
Any ideas on whether I could find one of these kits used or on ebay or from a junkyard? Anybody ever try to get some seats out of a minivan or something and modify them to fit? I don't have a welder or metal fabrication tools, so anything beyond hole drilling and bolting would be out of the picture.
It just seems like there would be some way to find something at a junkyard that would do the job - I know lots of minivans have removable seats, but I've never looked to see how they mount. But I would think if I could find some, I might could bolt the seats to a metal rail, then have the rail pre-drilled to match holes in the back of the truck that I could just bolt into and bam.
Anyhoo, thanks for the brainstorming help.
