Another Bench To Bucket Seat Thread.

[onlyinajeep726]

I know this has been beaten to death, especially here on CC, but I'm still unclear on something.

 

I have the curved rail, 4-door XJ seats (have not been able to find 2-door straight railed to save my life).  I'm only 5'11" (6'0" when I'm bragging), so head room shouldn't be an issue.

 

Maybe I'm stupid or just over thinking this, but what part of the XJ seats do I need to remove and what part do I keep?  I haven't taken the MJ bench out since I bed lined the floors.  I started hacking away at the XJ seats and I think I'm cutting off the wrong rivets/studs.  So... look at these two edited photos and tell enlighten me.

 

 

[Strokermjcomanche]

Drill out the second picture . I replaced the rivets with grade 8 1/4 bolts and nuts . Then you can replace the bucket brackets with the bench brackets .

[onlyinajeep726]

Thanks man!  I knew I had to be doing it wrong once I started getting into it... Well that was an hour and a half wasted, but ya got to learn somehow, right? Thanks again.

[Strokermjcomanche]

Yeah, years ago it took me a couple tries to get it right . The nice part is when you switch to the bolts instead of the rivets you can just change the brackets out in half the time.

[onlyinajeep726]

Yea, that will be convenient, especially if/when I do find 2-door seats...

[Strokermjcomanche]

I've got a nice set of two door xj grey seats with the bolsters in my basement waiting to go in my other mj as soon as I find another set of brackets .

[onlyinajeep726]

Went back out to the garage for a bit and drilled out the correct rivets...  Thought removing the XJ brackets would be easy after that, but quickly found out the hard way.  Apparently these things are also spot welded to the sliders.  Took a rubber mallet and got a few good swings in to knock them off.