XJ Tj Seats

[josehuerta]

Anyone happen to know if the 97-01 XJ or 97-02 TJ seats bolt up to the Comanche seat tracks? And if the TJ driver's side tilts as does the passenger's side?

Thanks -

[Big Dan]

Not without a lot of fabrication.  Any seat will fit with a lot of fabrication.

 

For ease of mounting, focus on 84-94 XJ seats

[josehuerta]

Understood. I very much appreciate your response and will heed your advice. Do you happen to know if just the backs would interchange? I'm drawn to the one piece integrated style of the later seats (headrest is an integral part of the back, not a separate component on sliding rods.

[Pete M]

a lot of junkyard seats will adapt to our floor brackets using creativity and 1" flat or square steel tube.  can't say for sure about the late model XJ, but plenty of guys have done it when they did a full 97+ conversion.  you should be able to find some info if you focus on finding complete conversions.  

[josehuerta]

Good answers and I appreciate them. Another question. Club members here are innovative and seem to have tried most everything. Has anyone ground the rivets off the hinge of an XJ seat back and poked around inside to determine if it could be converted to a full tilt hinge? I did this on an old truck seat years ago and found only a small metal stop which I ground off to allow full tilt. No, it was not as substantial a hinge as the XJ, but thinking it could be bolted back together after modifying. Anyone?

[gogmorgo]

By "full tilt" do you mean all the way back (through the back wall of the cab??) or just flipping forward? 

There's a couple threads in here addressing adding the forward tilt to other seats.

 

[josehuerta]

Just forward tilt to allow getting stuff in/out from behind the seat. I've looked through the write-ups but if the answer is there I missed it. I'm trying to keep my truck as original as possible (no Dakota seats for example) and work with what I have. Or do four door XJ seats flip forward enough to do this? I could live with an XJ seat swap but the two door are hard to find, more of the four door seats around. Thanks for the help -

[Minuit]

I've had these seats apart and looked at every little detail, and this is one of the things that I was wondering myself when I first "built" my seats. Unfortunately, the frames are pretty much completely different where it pertains to flipping forward. I don't see any practical way to convert an 84-94 4dr XJ seat to flip forward.

 

[josehuerta]

Thanks Jeremy. Radio is working fine by the way. I can now listen to rock music nearly as old as I am.

 

So the MJ (tilt) hinge will not bolt to the XJ seat back/base? My seats are shot but don't want to lose the tilt. My other choice is a complete reupholster with new foam as well.

[Burke]

As for the TJ buckets, both of them fold forward & I'm pretty sure the bottom of the seat is the same as the 97+ XJ's.

 

I've been wanting to swap out my buckets too, since they pretty much seem to have the life tapped out of them. I've collected quite a few different ideas off the forum & just posted 4 or 5 links in another similar thread. The last link shows how someone used the whole MJ bucket mounts & rails to swap in 2002 Grand Am Leather seats - which look quite decent and fairly simple.