mikeinatlanta

If I ever put the seat back in the center seat will not have a shoulder harness. Don't care though.

Ron in BC

A small price to gain a large useful, otherwise wasted, storage space.

Can't do the mod until the torrential rains end. Do you have to cut it to remove it?

Ron

mikeinatlanta

If you are referring to the shoulder harness mount yes. It sticks up pretty high and makes is impossible to trim out the area. I just tucked the harness on the driver's side behind the OE plastic trim. Plan on doing a false floor in the back giving about 3"-4" of under floor storage. That's why I didn't patch the carpet holes.

Ron in BC

Well, all's well that ends well.

I'll include a photo of the hardest nut to remove. It's the one that holds the bottom of the center seat belt. It's in that alcove. The only way that I could access it was to put my head down to the floor and then put an 18 mm box end wrench on it. There was enough wrench sticking out that I could smack it enough to loosen it.

So, the whole purpose of the exercise was to get a interior secure storage space for our two folding e-bikes. After all is said and done I was happy to see that they fit the space perfectly. I'll make up some padding to protect them and the truck seats etc. On the back wall I'll probably just make up a vinyl coated thin plywood panel. Or not, it's a storage area for me.

Had the small seat out as part of the process. It's so easy to take out I think that when we're on the road with our trailer it'll get left at home also.

Ron

mikeinatlanta

Looks good Ron. I have a highly modified Giant Halfway. Very similar to your bikes. I've put over a thousand miles on it in Taiwan.

Now you can see why I cut off the center shoulder belt mount. There is no clean way to cover it, at least not that I could see.

The drivers shoulder belt will make noise driving as it hits the sidewall trim and gets annoying. You can wrap the end of it in some padding and tuck the entire assembly behind the sidewall trim. It's tight but everything will snake through the hole. All you have to do is pull the door seal and threshold trim panel for access, snake the belt though and then wrap the mount in padding.

If you decide to trim out the rear wall area, you can get aluminum angle to act as a lower retainer at places like Lowes. Be advised that the rear wall of the truck isn't straight, so you will need to do some custom work to have it match the curve. Also, you will need to keep it free flowing enough for the subwoofer sound and amp cooling. Not doing so will turn the entire trim panel into a giant vibrating mess. On mine the panel and stitching are color matched to the two tone grey interior. The material is same as the OE, so everything is a perfect match.

rsanford

Hello all. If I could jump in with a question. In my 2017 F150 Super cab, before my last trip, my plan was to remove the rear seat, leaving the jump seat. I made it along without too much trouble and then I think I came to a point where I saw I had to remove the jump seat as well so I just did not do it. But just like you all I really need more room for my 95 pound dog. So, I just wanted to confirm that I did have to remove the jump seat to remove the main seat and I also wanted to ask if it is then fairly easy to reinstall the jump seat. Thanks a lot for the info.

Pinktruckthings

mikeinatlanta

I don't remember exactly but the two rear seats do share some mounting. Once the larger seat is removed the smaller seat easily goes back in with no modification needed. I can't remember for sure if the smaller seat has to come out to remove the larger one. Not a big deal though as it is all really easy. The only part of this that takes time is trimming out the rear while accommodating the subwoofer.

Andrew Duque

how did you make the cover and how big is the space now from the back of the drivers seat to the new cover you have?

Thanks! I have a great dane that rides with me and would prefer to not get the super crew if i can help it

dougg

Is tha a lotus 7?