I’m following, I have a e350 cargo and I bought regency conversion 2nd row captains chairs with quick release bases and power folding bench sofa. I would like to retain passenger under seat storage so I was looking to modify the seats to my original seat bases. I can cut up the quick resale seat bases but I would like to keep them just because they seem desirable and maybe I can sell them and make my $300 that I paid for the seats. The problems I’ve ran into are
1. The captains chairs mounting bolts are 1/2in further apart than the factory econoline seat mounting bolts and will require a custom setup to mount to the seat bases.
2. The seatbelts are different even though the second row regency captains chairs have integrated seatbelts my factory seats have seatbelt tensioners and a plug coming up through the floor so I would need to make a bypass pigtail or a bracket that mounts the original seatbelts to the captains chairs.
I’m trying to avoid throwing a airbag light so I need to think it through a little better.
My main thing is I want them to be as safe as possible. Even though the econoline isn’t considered a safe vehicle I would like the piece of mind that I will be safe in a accident along with my passengers.
I haven’t got around to converting them yet because I tore Into the engine valley resealing hpop,fuel bowl, new cnc fab fuel line,cnc fab hpop lines, banjo bolt, aih delete, and all the other 7.3 goodies that I’ve found on the forums. Once I’m done with those l I’ll do a coolant flush and oil cooler reseal and I’m on to the seat conversion. Once I get around I will do a write up on the seat fabrication and other problems I run into. Hopefully you can find the answers your looking for and maybe I can find some information that helps with my project.
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