Rear Folding Jump Seat for a 1969 Mercury Colony Park? My wagon is currently a six passenger wagon but I would like to turn it into a 10 passenger. I would like to put in the rear folding seats in the back, but I need to know what year rear seats will fit my 1969 Colony Park. I assume that 1969-1977 fullsize seat would work, but I am wondering if the 1978-88 full size wagons rear seats would fit my wagon? Any info would be appreciated. Rod
This is the layout for the rear seat: I doubt the newer ones would work. Make sure you get ALL the hardware to the floor and latches. You should find that the floor in yours has 'dealer-installation' dimples to mark where the brackets go and reinforcement plates beneath the cargo area floorpan, for the self-tapping bolts to mount the brackets.
Has anybody added the rear folding seats to their 6 passenger wagon? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks, Rod
Try to get the body manual from one of the Manual dealers. I've got mine for the 1979 Fords on CD. Gives a lot of details and part numbers. There should be some weld-nuts in the floor, where the hardware is installed. Use the self-tapping bolts from the seatbelt body mounts from any Ford product. The sidewall-mounted brackets won't be rusty, usually. You'll need the similar underfloor square welded pads, where the weldnuts are under the car. Check out your frontseat mounting system under the car, to get a basic idea of what Ford used in those years. Since those seat brackets were usually installed as optional, the dealers had kits to install them, so I'd check there under the car, to see if you see any rubber plugs sticking through where the brackets should go. If you can, you might want to get the brackets powder-coated (paint), because regular spray will get nicked and scratched. You could do it yourself with a heatgun or get a shop to do it. Caswell has the powder coat in spray can format, and instructions for using a heat gun, plus a user formum. http://www.caswellplating.com/ http://forum.caswellplating.com/forum.php
I didn't see this was posted in two places, so here is my post from the other post... Hey there, I did the conversion on my '67 Mercury Commuter. It really isn't that hard, you just need to get all of the pieces. Mine came from a '68 Ford full sized wagon. Most of it will just drop right into place, but you will need to add a few mount points for the supports. The toughest part is locating the pivot for the upper seats at the front of the well. There really isn't a good point of reference, so it took a lot of eyeballing and mocking it up to get them right. I nailed one side, but the other was 1/8 inch off (low, I think) because I tried to measure it off a faulty reference point. Be sure to cut the pivots out of the donor vehicle if you can. I was able to do so, but my fall-back plan was to get washers with roughly the correct inner diameter, drill them to the proper size, and then weld them up for the install. Also, mock it up and take it back apart a lot to make sure everything is fitting right as you go. Otherwise you will inaccurate reference points and things won't fit right. Let me know if you would like any pics. You can check out my blog to see some of what I have during the install. Good luck! __________________ Paul 1968 Mercury Cougar XR7 Project 1967 Mercury Commuter Wagon w/mild 429 http://mycarrestorationprojects.blogspot.com/
Jump seats swap in I did our '87 Colony Park LS yrs ago using a Country Squire donor. Worked out VERY well; if I can do it, must be easy. The hardest part was correctly locating the forward seat mounts; the factory welds them in place.
