Bucket Seats Redux

[summerinmaine]

Searched, but did not find an answer.

 

Does anyone know the year range for simple bolt-in swapping for bucket seats? I'm assuming that Comanche and Cherokee are directly interchangeable within a given year (or year range), but are the 1986-1991 models directly interchangeable with seats from any later year models? If so, how late in the post-1991 model run should I be looking at?

 

If not direct bolt in, how much of a job to fit seats from, say, a 1992 or later Cherokee into my 1987 Comanche (one of the options I'm currently considering)?

 

Thanks in advance.

[pingpong]

Xj seats do not bolt in. The floor pans are different between the XJ and MJ. There are several ways to accomplish this swap, the easiest is to find MJ buckets, or fab your own. I know the last is might not be an option. I know this topic has been coverred, and maybe someone with some more insight will chime in and give you more details

[JeepcoMJ]

drill out the rivets and spot welds holding the mj mounting brackets to the slide rails. do the same on the xj seat brackets. swap over with a bolt and some welding.

 

beware that there are a few different types of xj seats, the rocker, plain slider, power, and all 3 of those are available from 2 doors with tip-forward action.

 

you CAN'T convert the power one over with mj brackets, you have to go completely custom on those.

 

you WILL get an extra 3 to 4 inches of seat height with the rocker type, as well as they are moved inward about 3/4" (redrill and weld to accomodate). people don't like the extra height...I do, so that's what I have.

 

the plain slider seats are a direct swap to the mj lower brackets.

 

either way you do it, you will have some fab work. unless you get ones from an mj but they are rare

[LocoJeeper]

From what I understand nothing you find in a cherokee is going to a "direct bolt in". Though it isn't that hard to make them work.

 

The trick is to find one's with out the rocking-horse, bull-riding, swivel adjustment, as that add's an extra 1 inch or so to the height of the seat.

 

As far as install goes: just unbolt the brackets from your bench seat and drill out the rivets (i used a combination of a drill and an air chisel) then do the same to the XJ brackets and run bolts from the MJ risers through the cherokee sliders to mount the seats in your MJ.

 

Hope that makes sense...

 

i have pictures... somewhere.

[91mj97tj]

Well my pal has a 2.5 Liter Cherokee. It is a 91 the same year as mine and they sit kind of low and are just like the ones put in MJ's

[JeepcoMJ]

Well my pal has a 2.5 Liter Cherokee. It is a 91 the same year as mine and they sit kind of low and are just like the ones put in MJ's

 

seats are identical, brackets are NOT

[90PioSport99]

84-94 XJ sliders will work on your MJ bases, after that they changed the design completely with the floor pans of the XJ.

[JeepcoMJ]

84-94 XJ sliders will work on your MJ bases, after that they changed the design completely with the floor pans of the XJ.

:agree:

[summerinmaine]

Thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.

 

I'm going to try to hit the Yonkes this weekend, and wanted to be informed.