Need help.

[Paintball101]

I just bought front bucket seats from a salvage yard off of a 04 or 05 f150 and im putting them in the back of my f250 but i need help. how do you get power to them? The dealership says i can bring them in and they will do it for me... but charge me $85 an hour plus parts. ouch!! i wouldnt mind doing it myself but i cant figure out what to do? Please help.

[Powerstroke_soldier]

Did you get the wiring harness as well? The one that connects to the seat? If so I would just take the harness run wires to the front bucket seats and splice in to wires that power the seats. Thats assuming you have power seats on the front which I am sure you do. You putting them in a CC or a Ext Cab?

[Paintball101]

I put them in a cc but i wasnt allowed to have the wiring harness. so all i have is the seats with power and the front seats are power.

[99250on14inches]

I would go to another yard or that yard and "get" the harnesses and splice them into the front seats.....my wife is doing this conversion for me today I've got tan leather, picked up a whole tan leather lariat interior for 40 bucks pretty sick!!

Chad

[Paintball101]

dude dont tell me stuff like that. ive been looking forever and i just ended up settling for f150 interior. ha! how much would they charge for the harness do you think? isnt that kinda expensive?

[99250on14inches]

I ended up having my wife pick them up locally and she is installing them today and tomorrow, so Ill have 2 bench seats in great condition for sale....I would try ford to see if they could get you the harness....well the pigtail and wire it in...it might cost you 30 bucks max...ford isn't horrible on their prices.

Chad

[bondsman]

What kind of connections do you have coming out of your seats that are supposed to go to the truck? It should be just a positive and a negative assuming that you do have the switches to move and adjust the seats.... They just need power and you could tap into the front seats power supply or just run your wires under the sill plates and up to the fuse box and tap into a constantly hot wire. Put a fuse inline as well..

[Paintball101]

couldnt i direct them straight up to the fuse box and put a togle switch on it to shut the power off, to conserve energy? I have two plugs coming off one seat and 1 similar one and another diff one coming off the other. both of the similar ones plug ins are the color blue. and my guess is those are the power. so couldnt i just take the plugs off and take the ground out and ground it and twist the rest together and take those straight down to the fuse box?

[bondsman]

You could run it all to the fuse box and just put an inline fuse in there. no need for a toggle because they won't draw any power unless you move the seat. You might want to find a 04/05 F150 and look at it, unplug the same plugs that are on your seats one at a time and see what they control, then check the harness that is on the truck with a multimeter to see which color(s) is/are hot leads and which are ground. The seats you have might be wired for heaters too. In that case you will have to grab the switches for them or better yet, don't connect the heaters if that is what the other connections are.