Love my truck, but OMG the seats suck
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Love my truck, but OMG the seats suck
I put an add on the classifieds, I would really like to find some of the "captains" type bucket-bench first gen for mine, but so far, striking out. The seat is starting to affect my back. I saw someone swapped out second gen seats? Can'tg seem to find it now. Any other suggestions?
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This what you are looking for? 2nd Gen seat install...start to finish - Dodge Diesel - Diesel Truck Resource Forums My seat has broken springs, so I want to replace it also. I'd like to use 2nd gen seats like my 01.5 has, with seatbelts on the seat instead of on the piler.
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I bought a $500 ramcharger at one point and promptly swapped the bucket seats over. Much better for my back.
Another trick I do for crap seats is a lumbar cushion. I have one that's like a bean-bag sort of thing. A partly used roll of paper/shop towel slightly squished works too.
Another trick I do for crap seats is a lumbar cushion. I have one that's like a bean-bag sort of thing. A partly used roll of paper/shop towel slightly squished works too.
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My 1985 F-350 has had genuine Captains Chairs since day one of me owning it.
Within weeks of us getting the wife's truck, we were at the annual swap meet at Louisville, Kentucky, and some guy with almost nothing but semi stuff had a new-looking pair of Captain's Chairs, the right color and everything, that are now in her truck.
The ones in my truck "look" better; but, although mine sit wonderfully, her's sit better; they are wider and thicker.
Many times, the wife has hauled around various female passengers and without exception they always have nice comments about her seats and how good they ride.
About two days after getting the ones in her truck mounted, I was spreading out some old newspapers on the bench to paint something and was checking the classifieds as I did so and saw this tiny classified "Captain's Chairs - New - $50" ; I about tore the cord out of the wall getting the phone in my hand and within half-an-hour had a brand-new pair for the son's truck; as it turns out, these people had bought a plain-as-an-old-shoe brand-new white full-size van that some handicap assist company had removed these new Captain's Chairs from to make way for a wheel-chair lift and such to accommodate this woman's newly handicapped husband; those seats had never been sat in and are identical in every way to the pair in my truck.
I will say this about any kind of seat in a truck; everyone insists on having the seat almost in the floor and then you sitting in a strain trying to see across the hood; right there is where all the pain is coming from; I don't care if you have a church bench in there for a seat, block that thing way up away from the floor and then tell me if that ain't better.
I am a Big & Tall kind of guy and I have at least two inches or more blocks under my seat frames and I love it; I get in someone else's truck where they are almost sitting in the floor and I hate every mile of it.
I get in a big truck and the first thing I do is air that seat up --- way up --- and then I can drive it to hell and back and it never bother me.
Quite often, I have someone help me do the driving on some of these long-hauling cattle trips and those guys always comment on how much better they like being up off the floor where they can see; and then, in a few days, I catch them doing likewise to their truck.
Within weeks of us getting the wife's truck, we were at the annual swap meet at Louisville, Kentucky, and some guy with almost nothing but semi stuff had a new-looking pair of Captain's Chairs, the right color and everything, that are now in her truck.
The ones in my truck "look" better; but, although mine sit wonderfully, her's sit better; they are wider and thicker.
Many times, the wife has hauled around various female passengers and without exception they always have nice comments about her seats and how good they ride.
About two days after getting the ones in her truck mounted, I was spreading out some old newspapers on the bench to paint something and was checking the classifieds as I did so and saw this tiny classified "Captain's Chairs - New - $50" ; I about tore the cord out of the wall getting the phone in my hand and within half-an-hour had a brand-new pair for the son's truck; as it turns out, these people had bought a plain-as-an-old-shoe brand-new white full-size van that some handicap assist company had removed these new Captain's Chairs from to make way for a wheel-chair lift and such to accommodate this woman's newly handicapped husband; those seats had never been sat in and are identical in every way to the pair in my truck.
I will say this about any kind of seat in a truck; everyone insists on having the seat almost in the floor and then you sitting in a strain trying to see across the hood; right there is where all the pain is coming from; I don't care if you have a church bench in there for a seat, block that thing way up away from the floor and then tell me if that ain't better.
I am a Big & Tall kind of guy and I have at least two inches or more blocks under my seat frames and I love it; I get in someone else's truck where they are almost sitting in the floor and I hate every mile of it.
I get in a big truck and the first thing I do is air that seat up --- way up --- and then I can drive it to hell and back and it never bother me.
Quite often, I have someone help me do the driving on some of these long-hauling cattle trips and those guys always comment on how much better they like being up off the floor where they can see; and then, in a few days, I catch them doing likewise to their truck.
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My 1985 F-350 has had genuine Captains Chairs since day one of me owning it.
Within weeks of us getting the wife's truck, we were at the annual swap meet at Louisville, Kentucky, and some guy with almost nothing but semi stuff had a new-looking pair of Captain's Chairs, the right color and everything, that are now in her truck.
The ones in my truck "look" better; but, although mine sit wonderfully, her's sit better; they are wider and thicker.
Many times, the wife has hauled around various female passengers and without exception they always have nice comments about her seats and how good they ride.
About two days after getting the ones in her truck mounted, I was spreading out some old newspapers on the bench to paint something and was checking the classifieds as I did so and saw this tiny classified "Captain's Chairs - New - $50" ; I about tore the cord out of the wall getting the phone in my hand and within half-an-hour had a brand-new pair for the son's truck; as it turns out, these people had bought a plain-as-an-old-shoe brand-new white full-size van that some handicap assist company had removed these new Captain's Chairs from to make way for a wheel-chair lift and such to accommodate this woman's newly handicapped husband; those seats had never been sat in and are identical in every way to the pair in my truck.
I will say this about any kind of seat in a truck; everyone insists on having the seat almost in the floor and then you sitting in a strain trying to see across the hood; right there is where all the pain is coming from; I don't care if you have a church bench in there for a seat, block that thing way up away from the floor and then tell me if that ain't better.
I am a Big & Tall kind of guy and I have at least two inches or more blocks under my seat frames and I love it; I get in someone else's truck where they are almost sitting in the floor and I hate every mile of it.
I get in a big truck and the first thing I do is air that seat up --- way up --- and then I can drive it to hell and back and it never bother me.
Quite often, I have someone help me do the driving on some of these long-hauling cattle trips and those guys always comment on how much better they like being up off the floor where they can see; and then, in a few days, I catch them doing likewise to their truck.
Within weeks of us getting the wife's truck, we were at the annual swap meet at Louisville, Kentucky, and some guy with almost nothing but semi stuff had a new-looking pair of Captain's Chairs, the right color and everything, that are now in her truck.
The ones in my truck "look" better; but, although mine sit wonderfully, her's sit better; they are wider and thicker.
Many times, the wife has hauled around various female passengers and without exception they always have nice comments about her seats and how good they ride.
About two days after getting the ones in her truck mounted, I was spreading out some old newspapers on the bench to paint something and was checking the classifieds as I did so and saw this tiny classified "Captain's Chairs - New - $50" ; I about tore the cord out of the wall getting the phone in my hand and within half-an-hour had a brand-new pair for the son's truck; as it turns out, these people had bought a plain-as-an-old-shoe brand-new white full-size van that some handicap assist company had removed these new Captain's Chairs from to make way for a wheel-chair lift and such to accommodate this woman's newly handicapped husband; those seats had never been sat in and are identical in every way to the pair in my truck.
I will say this about any kind of seat in a truck; everyone insists on having the seat almost in the floor and then you sitting in a strain trying to see across the hood; right there is where all the pain is coming from; I don't care if you have a church bench in there for a seat, block that thing way up away from the floor and then tell me if that ain't better.
I am a Big & Tall kind of guy and I have at least two inches or more blocks under my seat frames and I love it; I get in someone else's truck where they are almost sitting in the floor and I hate every mile of it.
I get in a big truck and the first thing I do is air that seat up --- way up --- and then I can drive it to hell and back and it never bother me.
Quite often, I have someone help me do the driving on some of these long-hauling cattle trips and those guys always comment on how much better they like being up off the floor where they can see; and then, in a few days, I catch them doing likewise to their truck.
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Just recently, we have had two different companies in adjoining counties go into business converting vans and such for "special needs" people ---
I bet such a place would be ideal for snagging a good deal on a pair of Captain's Chairs, maybe even look in the dumpsters.
Such places get paid an absolute fortune for very little and they aren't going to be straining at gnats trying to make a few bucks on whatever they strip out of these vehicles to make way for the alterations; if the customer doesn't want the removed stuff, in the dumpster it goes.
With a van, if one specifies Captain's Chairs, they probably get six and specifying only two isn't going to save anything, so just get the six; then, an outfit like those handicap converter guys jerk out a couple to make way for whatever they are doing to it.
I bet such a place would be ideal for snagging a good deal on a pair of Captain's Chairs, maybe even look in the dumpsters.
Such places get paid an absolute fortune for very little and they aren't going to be straining at gnats trying to make a few bucks on whatever they strip out of these vehicles to make way for the alterations; if the customer doesn't want the removed stuff, in the dumpster it goes.
With a van, if one specifies Captain's Chairs, they probably get six and specifying only two isn't going to save anything, so just get the six; then, an outfit like those handicap converter guys jerk out a couple to make way for whatever they are doing to it.
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