Another seat question

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Re: Another seat question

Post by ROBBIE » Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:49 pm

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Re: Another seat question

Post by ROBBIE » Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:50 pm

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Re: Another seat question

Post by mk1joe » Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:29 pm

cool! they look pretty smart. il have to have a closer look at how there fixed.
has no one done this before?

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Re: Another seat question

Post by felstmiester » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:52 pm

Why bother taking the box section out ?? Don't really see the point it's not a lot higher.
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Re: Another seat question

Post by mk1joe » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:12 pm

suppose, but the seats im fitting are quite tall and i cant fit my legs between the steering wheel and the seat.

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Re: Another seat question

Post by ROBBIE » Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:34 am

Can you not take the runners off the new seats and bolt the SJ runners to them? That what I did with my bucket seats, just had to drill a hole in each side of the set frame to bolt the runner on
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Re: Another seat question

Post by felstmiester » Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:46 pm

There's a simple solution to your issue. I'm afraid the answer is if you can weld its an easy fix, if you can't it's hard. The drivers side I found easy on mine cos I just welded on some right angled cleats that picked up on the original mounting holes at the front. The back of the drivers seat was a bit more tricky but again I managed to fabricate some mounting and welded em on to pick up on the existing mounts. From what I can remember it was the passanger one that was s**t because it didn't have the box section, but again the welder came into play. Like I've said my seats was scooby wrx seats that I kept the the standard scooby runners on and they fitted in a treat. In fact I have more movement front and back on the runners on these seats than was on the standard Sj seats. I know this because mines a tin top and my kids often come off roading and with the standard Sj seats it was a struggle for them to climb in the back when fully tilted forward. Now there's loads more room when the scooby seats are tilted.
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Re: Another seat question

Post by mk1joe » Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:18 pm

well that took some doing!
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(there still not finished:(

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Re: Another seat question

Post by turbo-tom » Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:46 pm

have you had them recoverd or something? they look bloody smart! i like!! :mrgreen:
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Re: Another seat question

Post by mk1joe » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:04 pm

thanks bud:) i love em to, they havnt been recovered there just made from a very resilient, well lasting material. but the main thing is there so so so so so comfy!

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