[justinboo]

Rear seats in the LWB are rubbish.. so what else fits?


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[Gwagensteve]

Nothing or everything depending on what level of legality you want, and how much fabrication you're willing to do.

Consider too the layout of the vehicle and the position of the seats will have a lot to do with comfort. It's never ideal to be sitting on top of the rear axle

[justinboo]

Wj seats look to work


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[alien]

Just take them out and plead ignorance to those who want to sponge a ride... worked for me.

[Eddy]

I often wondered whether SWB front seats would fit in the back of the LWB ?

[Gwagensteve]

There's insufficient width between the wheelwells for two buckets. I recall it's less than 34"

The ideal seat would probably be a mastercraft/beard/prp US made suspension seat. They make rear benches for buggies and jeeps with the same manufacturing process as their race style front seats. However I think the minimum width for these is 36"

The mastercraft rear bench is cool but 40" wide.

[Eddy]

41 inches 'twixt rear wells by my tape .... have to be close

[suzukitas]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SUZUKI-SJ410 ... 9#shpCntId

these would be pretty awesome I reckon...

[justinboo]

900mm wide full tilt


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[Gwagensteve]

The spacing between the wheel wells is 890mm (or 35") , just measured in on the trolley tug (so a 1991 widetrack) This matches my LWB, which only just fits an unmounted 35" tyres between the tubs. I'm not sure what's 41" wide between the tubs, but it's not a sierra.

Whilst that WJ seat looks awesome, there's some potential legal ramifications there - the seat mount must be strong enough to deal with the leverage the inertia reel belt provides. The stock seat mount wasn't designed for that load.

An engineer would need to be consulted to ensure the en result was legal.

[Eddy]

Gwagensteve wrote:

I'm not sure what's 41" wide between the tubs, but it's not a sierra.

Vitara ... I missed the bit about the LWB being a sierra

[justinboo]

Didn't think the high position of the seatbelt would be an engineer issue.

I would look to mount it on the existing frame. That's a pain!

Might look at re-doing the original seats with thicker foam and some side padding


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[Gwagensteve]

Sadly yes. The factory floor mounts have be strong enough to retain the seat only. The factory lap seatbelt mounts don't see very much leverage, however with an integrated intertia reel belt, the weight of two passengers (at multiple g force) is trying to pull the seat up out of the floor- not a direction the factory floor mounts were designed to counter. The seatbelt can't save someone when it isn't attached to the car.

I'd be interested if there is a maximum weight limit for those jeep seats. Manufacturers often to this to limit liability if the seat or mounts break.

[tanked]

I have some measurements to take but 3rd row seats from an xc90 might work they are on a frame complete, plenty of mounting points to attach to car, would need however to get belt stalks to suit which wouldn't be easy but anything is possible

[justinboo]

tanked wrote:

I have some measurements to take but 3rd row seats from an xc90 might work they are on a frame complete, plenty of mounting points to attach to car, would need however to get belt stalks to suit which wouldn't be easy but anything is possible

Sounds interesting, any luck?


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