Thanks ARCuhTEK, this was awesome. did you have to cut anything away from your back seats from the amps?

 

I wish I would've had this this afternoon.

I did my leather install, and fought for about 30 minutes before finally getting it.

I came here and looked at 05redfx4's install but the clip in his post doesn't show HOW to remove it, only what it looks like.

I ended up removing the seat bottoms and could get in there much better.

The screwdriver method looks much easier.

 

I tried this and just could not get my screwdriver in how I wanted it to hit the clips. Just to clarify because I am not looking at it right now, does the screwdriver go over or under the seat when detaching the clips?

I found it easier to take off the side panels covering the rear pillar (C pillar?) and then get my arm around snugly. People who say get your arm behind the seat are crazy, I haven't the slightest clue what size arm people have, lol.

 

The visible metal latches (for child seats) are welded to a long horizontal bar. That bar has four metal plates (saddles) which the back rest, fits down into and rests on... The portion of the backrest that sits in the saddles is also a long metal bar embedded into the very bottom of the back rest. All of these components can be seen in my diagram. The metal bar in the seat can be seen as the tubular shaped bar colored blue in my diagram.

Take your hand or fingers and find this bar first. Just to be familiar with it. Your screw driver needs to be aimed above this bar....in essence....toward the ceiling of the truck...but only at about a 30-45 degree angle. The trick is knowing where....along the horizontal length of the seat backrest....to insert the screw driver. Essentially you are immediately adjacent to those metal latches that you see sticking out of the crevice between the backrest and the actual bench seat. There are only two release clips, which are located at the far ends of the seat.

That narrows it down pretty far....so you should be able to view my diagram and get the seat off pretty easily. If you have never done this, expect som frustration....and about 15 mins of work the first time. If you get lucky you will have the seat off in 5 mins. If you struggle...maybe 30 mins.

The second time you do it...I bet you can get the seat off in under 5 mins!

 

I bought my 2006 Lariat Scab used and realized well after that I didn't have the keypad code. I assumed it was just under the dash like previous Fords I've owned. After finding out the module with the code printed on it was behind the rear seatback and reading about people's trouble removing it I was at one point about ready to pay the dealer to scan or whatever they do to get me the code. Being cheap, I decided to do it myself but had been dreading it and putting it off for months. After I read this thread, I decided to take it on last night. I stared for 20 minutes at the lower exposed tubes and almost decided my truck wasn't like the picture. Finally it dawned on me that the picture was showing the tubes up inside the seatback. From there it took me all of 5 minutes to get it off, retreive the code and reinstall the back. I used a pair of shoes that were in my truck to prop the seatback up while I did the second side. When I was done, I only had one shoe....I had left the other somehow wedged behind the seatback. I had that thing off the second time, shoe removed and reinstalled in 2 minutes flat.

At least with the Supercab, one of the keys is the right length screwdriver. You go in on the inboard edge of the notched out area that clears the anchor points, and then to get the blade angled up high enough to get above the tube a relatively short screwdriver lets you do this without too much resistance from the seat bottom. I had my seat cushions (bottoms) in a sort of half folded position.

Thanks for the help. Now I can stop worrying about locking the keys in too.

 

OLD VERSION



If you look closely, under the color illustration, it tells you the rear seat has been removed for clarity. But after reading your post....I realize it is slightly misleading.

It may "seem" that the illustration caption means the seat has ALREADY been manually removed. When in fact it means the blue tubular bar is the framework for the backrest, but the foam, leather and other seat components have not been drawn so you can more clearly see the release clips.

I have edited the instructions and updated them on the original post.

Here is the new version.

 

Nice! I saw someone put something like this up over at the other F150 forums a while back. It's how I got my backrests out. Originally I tried getting my hand behind like most say, but my hand is way too big for movement back there. Screwdriver in between was much easier!

 

It might have been me...I am a member there too. Glad to help.

 

Geez, ARCuhTEk, I finally figured out why your name is so familiar. I am otisdog @ Cayman Club.

 

Dexter you have a Cayman and an F150? And here I thought I was unique.

Have a pic of your F150?

I use this screen name/ID on all of my forums....actually I created it in 1995 when AOL first when mainstream. Had it ever since!

Hows the Cayman? Probably garaged like mine!

 

I searched for 1hr looking for those latches. I even took out the bottom seat. I can see the latches welded to the round tube but cant find the part where Im supposed to push with screw driver.
'06 XLT Supercab

 

An hour to find a latch that sticks out from the seat and should be visible from 3 feet away? I mean they are even visible in the photograph in my document....see the big red arrow point to the latch? My goodness.

As far as the screw driver....well I cannot do much better than a color coded 3D drawing..... Put the screw driver on the inboard side of the latch (in board means on the side toward the center of the seat)...literally touching the latch...and basically follow the directions from there.

Here is a photo with the seat bottom removed.



It is showing my amplifier rack, but it also shows the metal bar, the black plastic release clip and the latch. I have the black plastic clip taped with blue painters tape, because I do not want it to grasp hold of my seat bottom when I am working with it (at least until I am ready to reinstall the seat bottom for good).

The idea is that the black clip needs to be pushed directly toward the rear wall. So you will slip the screw driver between the seat and backrest...and put the tip of the screw driver right where you see this blue tape...and push.

That is as good as I can give to you.

 

Another picture for the blind:

 

Subnoob= eBitch Slapped

 

lol