I've had this mod done for about a week now, but I finally got around to painting the console. Here are some pics. The paint job turned out great I think.





I had 60/40 cloth seats in there. The seats are from a 2000 Eddie Bauer Expedition, the console was originally grey and from a 2000 Lincoln Navigator. I painted it black because I didn't feel like hunting down/overpaying tan spray paint to match, and I'm planning on blacking out the interior sometime anyway. I think it looks really sharp with the black against the tan anyway. It's a good contrast.

 

Your seats and console look great! Your interior is the same color as mine.i've been trying to hunt down seats for about a year now w/o much luck,but after seeing yours,I'm going to keep looking until I find a set.Thanks for the pics.

 

All I gotta say is Ebay man. I wasn't even planning on doing this mod for a few months, but then I just bought the console sorta spurr of the moment for about 170 shipped. Then I managed to score the seats for about 350 shipped.

 

How hard was putting the console in and changing the seats. Was tehre any fab work. Im assuming that the seats just bolted in but what about the console?

Any one have a link to some info on this?

 

Everything bolts right in. The holes are already there they just need to be tapped out. As long as you have the brackets with the console/seats, all you need is a few bolts and you're set. Here are some links:

http://www.geocities.com/scmc75/f150...expy-c-faq.htm

Here's the guide I used (you may have to register to view):
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...d.php?t=176854


The most time consuming part of the whole process was painting it. That and wiring the seats up, I spent many many hours trying to figure out why my power seats wouldn't work, but eventually I just came to the realization that the seat itself was broken, not that I was wiring it wrong.

edit: and if anyone's curious on how I painted it. I used the same Duplicolor plastic/vinyl paint shown on that SVT forum. I sprayed a few light coats of primer/plastic adhesive, sprayed quite a few *light* coats of black on there, sanding every few coats, and then put a few coats of Duplicolor clear coat and sanded that down some. The first time I sanded, I used 1200 grit wetsand paper, but I found that using a fine grit steel wool seemed to give a much smoother/better finish, so I used that for the rest of the sanding.

 

My seats are not power now. Would there be a way to put power seats in? Are the harnesses there already for it if it wasn't an option on your truck?

 

I can't tell you if there's a harness there or not. Seems pretty random in these trucks, mine didn't. That doesn't mean you can't still wire power seats up though. If it's a basic power seat (no memory, heat, whatever), there should really only be two wires, a power (green) and a ground (black). Just ground the wire somewhere and hook the power up to a 12v wire in the truck. Even if you do have all of those other power features, just find those two wires and you'll be set.

 

Cool deal. Sound spretty straight forward... Just have to find the seats and console

 

the black and tan do look great