Bucket seat rails

[Glenn Moyer]

I was given 2 bucket seats from a 95 XJ 2 door, but the seat rails are approximately 11" apart. my 89 MJ brackets are 6" between the rivets side to side. Has anybody run into this on a bench seat to bucket swap. Looks like the only solution would to be cut my bracket and extend it under the lever to move the seat forward/backward. Just want another opinion before I booger up a perfectly good bracket!

Glenn

[Wiggilez]

I just cut the brackets off on my bench then wleded them to the buckets after cutting their brackets.

[Glenn Moyer]

The MJ brackets are narrower than the 95 XJ brackets by 5".

[Keyav8r]

Use some flat bar or plate to span between the XJ mounts and weld the MJ brackets to the bar or plate. There's probably a write-up with photos on the forum.

[Glenn Moyer]

The lift handle for the seat position is in the way for that. It looks like you would have to go down under the handle and back up to the other rail.

[MJCARENA]

There was a write up somewhere how to modify your bench seat brackets to fit on bucket seats.

[johnj92131]

The issue is mounting 95 and later seats in the 94 and earlier Cherokee or Comanche.

 

You don't have to resort to welding. 

 

I took the bucket seat brackets off my Comanche buckets.  Then bolted the seat brackets to the floor of the MJ.  Next I used 2 pieces of 1.25 wide by 18 inch long flat stock to connect each of the 2 seat brackets.  Drilled a hole in each end, used a 1/4 20 bolt to blolt the flat stock between the two seat brackets.

 

Next, on the donor 95+ seats, I cut off the brackets that mounted the seats to floor.  That left me with just the sliders attached to the seats.  Then I cut 2 more pieces of flat stock about 11 or 12 inches long and bolted them across the seat sliders.

 

After that all I had to do was fit where I wanted the new seats on the flat stock between the old Comanche seat brackets.  Drill 4 more bolt holes, bolt the seats down and they work just like they are supposed to.  No welding, just 4 pieces of flat stock and some bolts.

 

I did spend quite a bit of time adjusting the seat position before I bolted everything together.  The end result for me is a set of Grand Cherokee seats that fit great in my Comanche and no welding or cutting to the Comanche floor.  It is a completely reversible modification.

[13 Legion]

http://comancheclub.com/topic/7656-making-xj-buckets-work-in-a-mj/?p=72288