The 2.7L Single Cab Thread

Here is the part numbers for the manual trucks.

 

I have the part numbers but looking at used parts on ebay all the ones I find say automatic and they’re a lot cheaper than a new manual one

 

I had a hard time finding used manual consoles as well. So just bit the bullet and ordered all new.

 

Did your bench seat have airbags in it? If so how did you connect the yellow plugs coming out of the carpet. I stripped the bench seat of all the wiring and sensors to plug in and stash under the bucket seats but I noticed the airbag connectors are different on the bucket seats.

 

Yes my bench seat had airbags and my buckets seats don't. I used Brad's Hacks airbag emulators. Just scroll and get 2 for your year truck.

https://bradshacks.com

 

gotcha thanks for the link. Only reason I asked is because I got 3rd gen bucket seats which have airbags but the yellow connectors are different. After looking at them closely I might be able to modify them and make it connect.

 

No clue on that. Good luck.

 

I’m just thinking out loud here but feel free to chime in, if I am swapping a bench seat with airbags to bucket seats with airbags would I be able to do some splicing to connect the trucks wiring with the bucket seat wiring? That way I don’t have to use the bench seat wiring harness and bladder if the bucket seats already have it. I get that the connectors are different but as long as I jump the right wires and bypass the connectors, it should work out right? That would also allow me to use the bucket seat receptacles with my modified belt buckles and not have a seat belt light. The whole point of this is to not have all the extra wires, sensors and buckles under my new seats.

 

I might have figured out a solution. The passenger side I figured out which wires to splice to bypass the different connectors. Simply just color matched them thanks to info I found on a separate thread. However, this only worked for the passenger seat and since my seats came out of a 3rd gen, the driver seat isn’t plug and play like the 2nd gen seat would be. The problem is none of the colors match between the connectors so I have nothing to go off and color match. Feels like I hit a wall. I really don’t want to stuff the bench seat wiring under my bucket seats but might just have to go that route for now to make it work and start driving my truck again.

 

Yesterday I took a 8 hour round trip to Murrells Inlet to pick up a set of double cab behind the seat storage bins and met TW member @MKW. Super nice guy and a Veteran. Well today I cleaned them up and got them installed. Happy with how it turned out, had to do a little trimming on some plastic so they would fit better. Also did some sound deadening on the back wall.

 

Looks great! Nice to meet you as well.

 

Nice

 

looks great, I see you trimmed the vertical panels so the bins sit flush against the wall. One of the things that bugged me when I installed mine. I thought about trimming those pieces too but wan’t sure if I was gonna keep the bins or not. I had a hard enough time undoing the spot welds to remove the bottle jack bracket. I don’t like hacking stuff on my sweet truck but you did a great job. I might just cut mine

 

Appreciate it. Yeah I had to trim it, I cut a little more than I probably should have, but it fits alot better. I just wiggled the jack bracket back and forth and it popped the spot welds right out.

 

@easleycrawler I have been reading your recent posts regarding your oem bucket seat swap. I saw that you reused the bench seat airbag sensor for your bucket seat. Would the oem bucket seat not already have a passenger sensor?

 

My .bucket seats don't have airbags. Just needed to dummy all the other sensors to make the truck happy.

 

Ok regular cab members, I need some good info. My truck is a base 4wd, but has tsb 3+1 rear leaf springs that are still in great shape. I'm getting ready to install 3rd gen trd offroad suspension, just the front assembled front coilovers, upper control arms and rear shocks. Everything I've read this should be around 1-1.5 lift in the front. I'm wanting to do the same to the rear, can't stand a nose high truck.

Who has used the icon or wheelers progressive aal with the 3+1 rear leaf springs? I want to know how much lift you achieved with the progressive aal. 99.9% of the info I can find is either, a access cab or double cab. Any info on regular cabs with 3rd gen trd offroad front suspension, like actually how much it lifted your truck, know that the 4cyl is a little lighter than the 4.0.

 

When I installed the 3rd gen TRD Offroad shocks and front coilovers on my 2014 regular cab I didn't like the way it lifted the front of the truck. It was too much. I didn't want a level truck. It looked "nose high" as you say. I think a truck should have the rake that it was designed with. I purchased 3rd gen Offroad leaf springs from another member and they brought the back end up nicely; even allowing me to add a shell.

 

Got a pic of your truck?

 

I have the icon aal and third gen leaf springs on mine. It measures basically 24” in the rear. Not sure if that helps or not.