Just picked up an 85 22R truck with 160k on it. Looking to swap the bench seat because it's worn out and killing my back after an hour drive. I see the bench seats out of toyota trucks up to 95 are a direct fit. I'm going to go looking for a seat this weekend, my question is since it's a direct fit can i just use the seat rails already installed in my truck and just install the new bench seat on the existing rails or do I also need to grab the seat rails from the donor truck.

Never done any work with seats before so this is all new to me, I have to stick with a bench as I need 3 seats and am probably going to avoid a 60/40 on the chance that I come across one as I really just want a quick swap. Other than that love the new truck.
Also I'm assuming I'm good to just use the seat belts that already came with the truck right?

 

Having swapped from a bench to bucket seats I can tell you that you should only have to unbolt 4 bolts in your cab. no messing with rails or anything like that.

Also I would climb a mountain of bench seats to get to one set of buckets. The bench seat made my truck feel like it handled horribly and when I swap to buckets if felt like I just dropped $1,000 on the suspension

 

Cool, I'm going to hit the junkyards this weekend. Much rather have buckets but need to be able to get 2 kids in the car so no go.

 

I got a line on a 99 tacoma bench seat, any chance of that being a direct swap or something easy to do? Seat looks almost identical but I have no idea if it uses the same 4 mounting bolts, if the seat will fit on the rails or if I need to do something about seat belts also.

 

Anybody know about the 99 Tacoma seat. I hit some junkyard today and couldn't find anything. Going to try again tomorrow but apparently there's not a lot of these trucks in the yards around me.