Mustang seats in an FSJ???

[rhamby]

So I went to a swap meet a few weeks ago, and saw a guy selling seats. I've been looking for good seats for my J for a long time, and came across some Mustang seats that looked like they would be a really close match - narrow, short seat, and high back to clear the cab lip. It just so happens I saw a web site (http://www.jeepaholics.com/tech/mustangseats/mustangseats.htm) about CJ's using late-model Mustangs seats as a direct replacement to stock (if you swap out the bracket) Anyone tried this in an FSJ or know of a better option?

[jeepbob]

Mustang seats are almost a direct bolt in requiring just minor mods. Escort seats are another choice. Other Ford seats can be made to work with a little work as I have 98 lincoln towne car seats in my wag and 86 taurus power seats in my CJ.

[rhamby]

thanks, Bob -

Hmmmm.... Lincoln Seats.... :D

[jeepbob]

They really make for a nice ride off road and I got 4 right hand manual leather seats and a center console free. I spent about 2 hours making them fit the Wag brackets and then bolted them in. The place I got them from was a Limo factory and they scrapped the rt frt seats and console so they still had the factory care tags and plastic on them.

[ap90c]

anybody know what mods have to be made for escort seats i have access to a set of those

[rjw]

i put a set out of a 85 mustang in my 78 cherokee had to drill to hole in the seats for the jeep brackets to bolt up they work great

[Shake N Bake]

I put some real nice stang (I think it was 87) seats in my jeep, nice side/knee bolsters... And power lumbar... We could have elongated one of the holes in the seat brackets to bolt the stang sliders on... But decided it was way faster/easier to just weld them on smile.gif

Now my question would be, where do you get an 80amp breaker for that power lumbar... And how do you wire it in :confused:

Andy

[64Trvlr]

Why would you need an 80 amp breaker? I used an inline fuse ( 20 amp ) on mine. It works the 6 way seat, the lumbar, and the side bolsters just fine.
:cool:

[CheapJeep]

I had seats from a mid 80's stang in my international scout, and they required that one hole be redrilled to fit the tracks to the bases. They are a nice design- flat base area, and studs that are easy to locate/relocate. i have a set of dodge cravan seats that are going into my other wag onto late model gw power bases, and they measure out pretty good also.

[jeepbob]

To put Escort seats it is about 5 mins work with a drill. The power lumbar actually only pulls 3 amps the seat track motors pull more but the max breaker would be a 30 amp

[rhamby]

So what's the latest model seat that will work? I've got a line on some like new GT seats from a '95 for $100 for example.

[BM]

Is the a place to get the seat brakets them selves? I have a bench seat in poor shape (The spring sticking me in the bett is getting old.) I've called a bunch of junkyards but FSJ are hard to find let alone with buckets.

[Marvin Gates]

Thats bad, that you can't find FSJ seats where you are, here in Spokane WA I saw four GW'S in the junk yards with electric bucket seats in good shape for $15 a piece. We have a good supply of Wags and Cherokee's in the junk yards here. I picked up a perfect Rhino grille the other day for $35, they don't seem to know what the stuff is worth, I guess.
Mouse

[rhamby]

We Sutherners don't take our FSJ's to the yard, we go bankrupt keepin' 'em on the road. :D I'd say, too, the Northwest climate would yield more than a few nice interiors in rusty trucks that didn't make it quite to their sunset years...
Find me nice set of buckets in beige for $15 and I'll make it worth your while!