If I only had a regular cab or club cab to swap a set of Ramcharger bucket seats into, it would be much easier! From reading in the archives, a bench to bucket swap in one of those cabs is straight forward. The floorboard is flat as is the bench and bucket seat tracks or mounts. On my 85 Dodge crew cab there is a raised ridge that runs side to side or door to door. A reinforcement of the cab floor from what I'm guessing. The rear most stud on the bench seat sits atop this raised ridge. The bench track is curved to accept this. The bucket mounts/tracks are flat so I can't just use the two existing bolt holes and drill the other two. For each side that is. From what I understand, on a regular or club cab it's a straight forward bolt in swap, minus the drilling of the new holes, using the other two existing holes. Just looking for some info from any crew cab owners that have swapped in 1st gen style bucket seats. Thanks.

 

I'm interested in this as well. ramcharger or LE buckets would be nice up front in the crew.

 

What kind of brackets are you using for the bucket seat mounts? If they are RC seat brackets they will not work. The floorboard in the ramchargers is inclined upwards. I tried doing that in my crewcab project and it would make the bucket seat into a recliner. You would have to raise the rear bracket about 1.5 inches.

 

The seats and brackets are from a 86 2wd Ramcharger. The floor of the RC on the driverside was flat. The floor on the passenger side was raised quite a bit. I figured the seat on the passenger side in the crew would just sit a little lower than the driverside, maybe.

Even if I come up with a set of truck brackets, I still have to deal with the raised ridge on the crew floorboard. I should have taken pictures of the floor when I had the bench seat out. But I needed the truck so I just put it back in.

 

Chrysler mini van seats work very well. That is what I had in mine until I put the second gen seats in.

 

I ran caravan seats in the front of my crew as well. The rear of the base sits on top of the ridge.

 

I just double checked on my 1984 ramcharger. The floor underneath the seat brackets is inclined upwards towards the rear. I was going to try doing the same thing you are planning, but it wouldn't work out for me. I'm having to build completely custom brackets to make it work.

 

Beautiful! I knew there were more than a few Dodge crew cab owners/previous owners on this site, thanks guys. I paid $100 for the RC seats. I wonder if I can get myself the caravan seat bases and bolt them to the RC seats? Since caravans are dime a dozen at the junkyards, but the seats are usually junk or trashed out. The bases/tracks might be worth something this way. Would sure make the install a bolt in!

 

If you really want a nice seat get a second gen seat from the early quad cab's they have the seat belt's built in and fit nice

 

I have power caravan seats in in one of my '85 crew cabs. If you put the seat all the way back, I can rest my arm on the REAR window trim with the window open and barely reach the pedals even though I am 6-2.
Lots of room and very comfortable.

 

I put 2005 leather bucket seats in mine. Made an "L" bracket for the front and bent the rear tabs flat to the floor. My crewcab has a flat floor under the front seats. Some later ones do not. You will need to drill new holes in the floor and the should be reinforced with some oversize washers so cracks don't develop.

 

I mounted 02 seats in mine with the built in seat belts. Those got ditched for some 04 heated leather. The 04's where easier to mount.

 

I've got to deal with this too. I'll be installing the "captain's chairs" from my '93 club into the '80 crew. The crew floor is in 3 sections, put the front and rear sections together and you have a regular cab floor, the middle flat section is special to the crew. I cut some front floor out of a '88 RC to patch the crew's front floor, the RC floor inclines under the seats just like my club, just like the rear of the crew and just like a regular cab. I figure to mount the seats I'll have to fab some mounting brackets or find some bases that will work. Hmm, I'll have to check out our '98 G.Caravan seat bases, the pass side even has a nifty drawer! I wouldn't use Caravan seats, they bite, no low back support at all. It's a SE, maybe a high falutin LE or T&C has better seats.

 

If u got some out of a T&C you could probably find some nice leather ones.

 

I'm glad you guys brought this back up. I just spent the better part of the morning going to a few junkyards locally. Finally found some Caravans. The oldest was a 88, newest was a 97. The bases are flat like the Ramcharger base I already have and are completely different. They mount the seat much higher from what I can tell. I doubt I could bolt my seats to these bases even if they did match my Crew Cab floor. Looks like I'll be fabbing these RC seats to fit.