Xj seats in the mj!

[Warthog]

I know this has been beat to death but I wanted to give my version. Rocker buckets set too high, newer buckets the sliders too wide. After reading and reading and reading, looking at these seats and looking and thinking here is my solution. I had an aluminum loading dock sheet my brother gave me. You can use whatever you can find that will hold the seat. Cut me a plate to mate to the newer seat cause it has forward flip. Removed the whole bracket and mated it to the seat frame. Then I’m gonna run some 1/2” square tubing to get the slide lever clearance which will run front to back. Bolt the old style rails to the tubing to the seat plate. Then mount to some krustyballer seat brackets. Once you have everything lined up you can play with the height by adding washers or bigger tubing etc. you can also set up your preference of tilt doin the same method. More in the front less in the back. I will post pics tomorrow once I have this done but will try to get some as I go. My issue was it seemed everyone including myself was making this harder than it actually is. Your basically bolting the newer seats to the older slides. If anyone has done this and had issues feel free to drop advice. Peace and stay safe

[Warthog]

On 3/26/2026 at 6:38 PM, Warthog said:

I know this has been beat to death but I wanted to give my version. Rocker buckets set too high, newer buckets the sliders too wide. After reading and reading and reading, looking at these seats and looking and thinking here is my solution. I had an aluminum loading dock sheet my brother gave me. You can use whatever you can find that will hold the seat. Cut me a plate to mate to the newer seat cause it has forward flip. Removed the whole bracket and mated it to the seat frame. Then I’m gonna run some 1/2” square tubing to get the slide lever clearance which will run front to back. Bolt the old style rails to the tubing to the seat plate. Then mount to some krustyballer seat brackets. Once you have everything lined up you can play with the height by adding washers or bigger tubing etc. you can also set up your preference of tilt doin the same method. More in the front less in the back. I will post pics tomorrow once I have this done but will try to get some as I go. My issue was it seemed everyone including myself was making this harder than it actually is. Your basically bolting the newer seats to the older slides. If anyone has done this and had issues feel free to drop advice. Peace and stay safe

here are some pics of what I did. Cut me a plate to mount to the seat frame. The old rocker slide were taken off the adjuster slide and I used that mechanism. Getting those rockers off is a pia cause one bolt is under the adjuster lever. I removed the front and rear bolt holding the rocker track on and spun the rocker slide basically unscrewing it. Then a finder and cut the bolt stem to get it out. The old rocker slide and the inside seat bolt line up almost perfect giving me the clearance side to side. That’s an old newer style frame I had laying about I’m using for test fitting etc. I also had to fold or bend the front lip up on the old style seat mount so it would meet the new seat since it’s flat and not concaved? Also ditch the 1/2” tubing for clearance as I didn’t need it. Probably gonna have to use something in the back to take out some seat incline. Not sure yet. I pretty much lay out when I drive so it may work great. Rain comin so done for now. If any of this is confusing I’ll be happy to clarify. But the basics are take the rocker mechanism off your old seat mount. Cut you a plate for the seat bottom. Match it to the holes in your seat frame and mate your old style sliders to the front inside bolt and buckle everything in. That center bolt on the lever side rocker is a serious b*@ch til I figures out just spin the rocker off and cut the bolt shaft to get it out. If this helps one person then I’m happy. Peace!