I have the factory bench seat in the rear w/ the center fold down armrest. when its folded down it is just plain cloth. My question is did these trucks have an option to have cupholders in that armrest as the Yukon/Tahoe did in its fold-down center armrest? If not, has anyone tried to see if it would fit? Daily driving my truck and my son is generally w/ me everyday......not having a cupholder back there for his is quite annoying. I realize the stock center console in the fron has cupholders that fold out of the back, but that dont help me since I took it out for an Expedition console that goes up to the dash. Guess I am going to have to measure the armrest in a Tahoe of the same year.



Cup holders I am talking about...

Tahoe/Yukons had the cupholders inside the center console in the rear. The seats will fit and you will have to drill 2-3 new holes to bolt them in depending on the year rear seats you get and what rear seat is in your truck.

I was going to take just the plastic part of the Yukon armrest and have someone mod my arm rest to accept it. Or possibly pulling the arm rest off a Yukon seat to see if it would swap w/ mine.

I think the Tahoe/Yukon armrest is a bit wider than the one in the rear seat of your truck. If you dont have one to measure I can go measure the one in my truck if you want.

I'm confused...

OBS crews use the exact same mount points for the rear seat as the front, in other words, a front straight bench will bolt directly in the rear.

The OBS Tahoe's I've seen have a completely different rear seat mounting bracket style that is curved up in the rear. Does it use the same mounting holes? It looked so weird I didn't imagine it would bolt up without drilling new holes.

Richard

In my truck, we reused the two back corner holes and one of the front corner holes lined up. We had to drill 3 new holes for the front of the seats because of the fold down/slide option that the Tahoe/Yukon had.

lock do u have any pictures of ur interior?? to share with this post

Hey do you have any pics of your front center counsel from the expo? How does it fit? does it match the dash nicely?

When I 1st got it in there...


I have since cleaned the fake woodgrain off it. Still need to make a lower trim piece like the one below. (Found this pic and it gave me the idea. Only thing is on the opening on the other side is where my Alpine cd changer is mounted, so I can just reach down there and eject the cartridge....


Also found this one w/ newer bodystyle console in it...

Giovanni-- I think that there are some pics of my trucks interior on our myspace page.

bad link LOC

It works now.

SO loc u have obs interior I see.. thought u had the nbs..

Found this one another site about buckets in rear.
Most likely, you'll just have the 4 outer bolt holes for a regular bench or what I call a "bucket bench" where it's a bench bottom but separate backs and a fold-down armrest. (That's what my '98 had.)

A driver's side bucket will bolt right up to the outside holes, most likely need to drill holes for the inside bracket. The passenger bucket may bolt up to both or possibly just one outside hole, depending on the bracket style, and again probably have to drill holes for the inside bracket. There's a couple different passenger bucket seat brackets, and the hole spacing isn't the same. On some cabs there's two holes, one plugged with a torx bolt from the factory, to provide for different seats - in the front; I doubt they would make them this way in the rear of a crew cab.

Pull the carpet out to check for any extra possible holes, and to make it easier to drill without ruining the carpet by getting it caught up in the drill. Wherever you drill new holes, be sure to use the largest, thickest washer you can get to back up the nut on the bottom of the floor so the seat doesn't just rip out. If you don't have a helper handy to tighten up the bolts (it's a 2 person job without the factory captive nuts welded to the floor) then you can lock vise grips on the top of the bolt while you go underneath to tighten the nuts.

That is what we were talking about ODS rear seats 1995-2000. The seats out of mine came from a 98 Tahoe.