Bench to buckets

[Aidan]

Just so I'm 100000% sure before purchasing the seats, buckets from a 2 door cherokee will work when bolted to comanche seat brackets?

 

[89 MJ]

As long as you have MJ bucket seat brackets, yes. 

[jdog]

yep as long as you switch out the brackets

and its a pre 96 cherokee

[Aidan]

That's why I asked lol, from the post (the first link) I thought you could put 2 door cherokee buckets onto the MJ bench seat bracket 

[jdog]

5 minutes ago, Aidan said:

That's why I asked lol, from the post (the first link) I thought you could put 2 door cherokee buckets onto the MJ bench seat bracket 

you can

[Minuit]

 94 or older.

[Aidan]

I suppose the hunt continues then, the seats I was going to buy were from an 86

[Minuit]

86 seats will be fine. 95 and newer seats will not fit without considerable modification.

 

Just so it's clear, 1984-1994 seats will bolt right up to a proper set of MJ seat brackets, or to a set of bench seat brackets modified to fit.

 

Or to a standard office chair frame after drilling a single hole, as it turns out.

[jdog]

16 minutes ago, Minuit said:

Or to a standard office chair frame after drilling a single hole, as it turns out.

I'm gonna need to see pictures of this, and a review

[Minuit]

40 minutes ago, jdog said:

I'm gonna need to see pictures of this, and a review

 

 

 

 

This used to be the driver seat in my '89. The fabric wasn't nice enough to reuse (and it was the wrong color anyway) but way too nice to throw out, so I took the seat apart, washed the covers, and put the seat back together using a 4DR XJ seat frame on the base for my old workbench chair. The back holes on the frame line up literally perfectly with the back holes on the office chair base. The front holes don't, but there's a hole in the middle of the seat frame already drilled. All I needed to do to bolt it up is drill a matching hole in the office chair base and put it together with nuts and bolts.

 

It makes for a very comfortable office chair, even when sitting in it for a long time. The seat is mounted nosed-up, which may not be to everyone's taste but that's easy enough to fix by elongating the mounting holes a little bit - or by mounting the seat on a "rocker" base from an older XJ. You can also recline the seat.

 

I'll put together a more complete writeup of this at some point, because I took a lot of pics doing it. It also fits the theme of my radio lab

[Pete M]

I have an XJ seat that doesn't have a pair that might be getting that same treatment    I thought about using my leather XJ seat, but it's a driver side and far more sell-able than rando cloth passenger seat.