Corbeau Moab Seats in the MJ

[summerinmaine]

Rather than try to find used MJ or 2D XJ buckets, I just bought a pair of (virtually) new seats for the BajaRig. These seats seemed like a good deal (especially at $200 for the pair). Corbeau designed them specifically with the Jeep in mind (though not the MJ of course :brows: ) and they are readily adaptable to 3, 4 or 5 point seat belts. They fold forward, and have the sliders.

 

Unfortunately, Corbeau wants $90@ for the "adapters" to fit the MJ/XJ.

 

Has anyone fit these seats into the MJ? Without having pulled my stock seats, it seems that I should be able to remove them from the floor brackets, and bolt or spot weld the Corbeau sliders onto the brackets.

 

If not, does anyone have a pic of the Corbeau adapter so I can fab a copy?

[CWLONGSHOT]

I have the BAJA SS in my TJ. I spent the cash of the adapters, but found I hated the way they positioned you. I sent them back and made my own. I have been deliberating putting the fact TJ buckets in the MJ. I also need to figure a way to make something work.

 

Here is some pix of the TJ bases I made. maybe it will give you some ideas!!

 

This was factory, with the adapters:

 

Here is a finished shot of my bases:

 

 

Here is a bunch of shots as I made the bases.

 

 

 

Hope it gives you some ideas....

 

CW

[summerinmaine]

Wow! Thanks for all the input!

 

I'm just about ready to pull the stock buckets, and wondering why I shouldn't just fab a couple of 20" square plates of 3/16th mild steel or aluminium that would bolt to the stock floor brackets on the bottom, and to the sliders on the seats. As I see it, the only reason the seats won't bolt to the brackets is the the brackets are ~6" narrower than the sliders (though I haven't yet measured to be sure). It seems that the seat height wouldn't change that much.

 

Any thoughts?

[summerinmaine]

A bump, just to see if anyone has any thoughts on my idea of using a flat plate to match the Moab sliders to the MJ brackets.

 

Then I'll stop pestering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really. :brows:

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http://projectxj.com/mods/seats.htm

[summerinmaine]

http://projectxj.com/mods/seats.htm

 

Thanks for the link. The poster was using the XJ factory sliders (as it appears that the Baja SS seats do not have them).

 

So I'm thinking that I can simplify things a bit by eliminating the factory MJ sliders, and simply fabbing a way to attach the Corbeau sliders to the MJ floor brackets.

 

But it wouldn't appear to matter whether I used angle or a flat plate, would it?