Hey all. I have glossed over the last 3 years of posts here.

We have a 3500 14 passenger van.2007Model Year. Nice and green. The seats are the basic vinyl with no armrests. Can anyone comment on what models and years to paroose the Salvage yards for. We don't require power movement (though heated would nice, not required). Mostly Mom wants the arm rests. They can "deal" with the cold seats.

Mostly I would like to not modify anything in the process. PnP replacements would be nice.

 

Bump!

 

I have seen many of these on ebay in new condition. I think they are coming out of cab/chassis at Motorhome shops.

 

Update. I found some cloth seats at the local salvage yard here. I discovered that for 2005-2007Model year (those I have examined) the seat backs with out arm rests are missing the necessary bracket for mounting the arrest.

To add arm rests to front seats, you must also swap the seat back.

I'll post a some pics soon.

The seat backs are cloth, nicer in the cold.

To remove seat back :
Tools: low profile gear wench

Pull up on the seat cover material to expose the 14mm bolts. Seat material may tear. Be gentle
Loosen all 4 bolts.
Remove the upper bolt from each side. Lay the seat -back down towards rear.
Remove remaining bolts.

It's helpful to have an extra person to assist. Positioning the seat - back is difficult at first.

 

Look for an ls passenger express. Mine has the arm rests, and reclining buckets. My driver seat is power. My rear benches also have arm rests too.

 

Thanks for the heads up. It seems like there were few passenger Vans at the lot this summer. Most were service Vans.
I didn't note what rpo codes the Donor van had. The passenger door was removed.
My dad's 07 express (target) has RPO CODE Ls1. The build sheet (dealer window sheet) called it an LS passenger van from the factory.

I was very surprised that the seats w/o armrests, also lacked the pivot bracket the arrears mount to.
Which necessitated the seat - back swap.

Also, GM Parts lists the seat frame as left or right, and with & w/o entry assist handle. The donor seat had no assistant handle, but DID have the screw holes for the assistant handle.

The arrest pviot is welded to seat-back frame. The parts diagram shows it as a part of the seat-back to lower frame mount bracket. Which is reused on target vehicle.
Odd

 

my '06 cargo van came with the cloth seats that had the single arm rest. I just swapped them out recently with a conversion van leather/cloth seats that had two arm rests. I just removed the outside arm rest and kept the inner ones.

I bought the seats off Craigslist for $100 and they were pretty much new. They came from a mid 90's conversion van and they bolted right up to the 06 seat bases.

Brew

 

Double armrests? I looking for conversion Vans, with the thought that they were the only Vans that had them. Since the LS Ppassengr van didn't.

I haven't seen double armrests. Can you post a picture?

 

My factory seats only had one arm rest,



These are the ones that I got from CL and were from a conversion van. The have two arm rests, but I had to remove one to get them to work in the front seats of my van. So I am back to just having one arm rest.

 

OK, that makes sense now. Thanks for posting a picture. They must have had no arm rest on the door trim panel,
Or they are mid back chairs.
One of my father's older Vans was 1990 Model Year Ford Econoline 150 conversation van. It had the same Seats midway way back. I remember spending much of my childhood in one of them :-).
Same kind of seat belt too.