DIY Rear Seat Delete - Lariat FX4

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Hi All

Just about to install a dual battery system, with shore power and solar hookups. using a Battle Born Heated LiFePo4 battery and redarc redvision manager 30 system (will replace my trogger4plus amongst other things).

Rarely have anyone in the back, and always annoyed about the terrible design of folder down seats compared to the Taco. Don't Ford realize that the Taco is the Ranger's biggest competitor (besides all their own products: Bronco and now Maverick)

Removing seats was easy: lift up seat, under seatbelt clips (T50) and unplug wires. Then 2 x 13mm bolts at each side.

Made an extruded aluminum frame for front and using 1/2 MDF for platform.

The dual battery stuff arrives this week, so can't really do much else until I see where I'm going to locate everything

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Hi Mark, I realize that I'm commenting on an ancient thread, but I just saw this lol. Did you ever finish this project, and if so so you have more pics to share? I'm wanting to do this and what you have so far looks great!
 

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Thanks Mark!
 


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@mark_anderson_us what is the back attached to? And do you have the dimensions of each section that you would share?
 
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@mark_anderson_us what is the back attached to? And do you have the dimensions of each section that you would share?
attached to paces where rear seatbelt and bracket for the seat were attached

Sorry no dimensions, pointless anyway as it's not a regular shape
 

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Thank you
 

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Here's some more pix:

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Very nicely finished Mark. I may have used the same material you did on my Scab’s rear seat delete. Rubber-backed utility floor mats?

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I’m totally inspired to make a bottom platform now!
 
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Very nicely finished Mark. I may have used the same material you did on my Scab’s rear seat delete. Rubber-backed utility floor mats?

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I’m totally inspired to make a bottom platform now!
It's a lot of templating, especially with the sub, but totally worth it
 

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Oh man how did I miss this thread. Awesome stuff. I love seeing other people do custom fab mods.

I've done a rear seat delete, but went a different route. Thankfully I did not need to do a lot of template work since I was not building around specific shapes.

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Hey Mark, sorry to resurrect this thread, but I’m about to do a dual battery/RedArc Manager30 setup also. However, mine will be in the bed since I’m actually using my rear seat. My question for you is, where did you wire in your ignition trigger for the Manager30?
 
 



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