Good morning all
I just punched in looking for info on seat interchange for a 97 Ranger standard cab with bench seat. I am looking to swap in a 60/40 I found from a 99 Ranger. Going today to investigate the floor bolt pattern measurements on the 60/40 out of the 99. My 97 is up in the mountains about 3 hours away so eyeball to eyeball is not able today, I am going to have my son-in-law measure out the 97 floor bolt pattern but maybe someone here has had experience with interchange on these 2 years. Thanks for your help and the forum looks like a lot of good people with a lot of helping hands.
Tinman67

 

Welcome to the forum


Couple of been there done that quotes here

From Sasquatch_Ryda
"Ok...I have installed a 60/40 bench from a 2000 Ford Ranger extended cab into my 1997 regular cab. I had to swap the seat tracks from my original seats onto the 2000 seats. The 2000 seats had all the holes in them already to bolt up to my 1997 tracks, they just weren't threaded yet."

"Tonight I just installed a set of bucket seats out of a 2004 ranger extended cab into my friends 1994 extended cab. The seat tracks are welded to the 2004 seats so there was no swapping them. It looked awful close to fitting so I did some measuring. Everything lines up perfect, exact same seat tracks. They bolted right in. I had to swap the seat belt receiver from his old seats to the new ones, that was it (and remove the seat belt pretensioners)"

So you should be fine with that seat swap
The Regular cab seats don't go back as far as extended cab, which is why you change the tracks