hi

i just recently bought a 91 4X4 22RE



i was curious if anyone has put bucket seats in there cabs instead of the stock bench seat?

toyota, other, or aftermarket?

 

the SEARCH function is great on this site. here is my complete interior overhaul on my 86
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...fellas-126329/

 

i put buckets from a 93 SR5 4runner into my pickup (originally with a bench). easy swap, you can use the seatbelt bolt to hold in one corner of the new seat, and you've got to drill the trans tunnel for the new seatbelt bolt (the spot is there, just capped off).

unless you can find a 2 door runner the seats won't slide forward as far, so it's harder getting in and out of the back (not that i'm ever in there anyways), and the passenger seat won't slide forward automatically anymore. neither of those are dealbreakers, in my opinion. but the seats are way comfortable, and the driver's side has a million adjustments.

go for it

edit:



that's how they looked immediately after install, still pretty filthy. i've cleaned the upholstery a bit since.

 

thanks guys....


how do the bucket seats feel being in the cab?



ive read before about people putting car seats in them but they can feel akward because they are ment for being in a different sized cabbin


i guess i was looking for more of a direction to look in for seats at the junkyard

 

CoedNaked did this swap, looks factory!

 

The SR5 buckets are phenominal seats from an era when Toyota was known for high quality comfortable seats.

If you have an xtra cab and you swap in Toyota SR5 bucket seats from an SR5 truck or 4runner of the same generation, on my swap the front right seat was a direct bolt in, the front left/drivers seat was close. The front left and rear left bolt holes line up exactly. The front right bolt holes will require you to make an offset bracket which if you have any mechanical aptitude at all, will be easy, and the rear right hole can fit where the old seat belt bolt came through from the bucket seats that held the drivers side seat belt buckle and you just need to "coax" or "Manipulate" it over to fit. I found if you stuck a bolt through from the underside, and then fought it over, and when you got it quickly get a nut on and wrench it down. Works like a charm.

You WILL need to grab the seat belt buckle from the donor truck where you got your seats and you can drill a hole opposite the ohter seat and put some bolts/nuts through to have the proper ridgid buckle to compliment the factory look of your seats.

Best of luck.

 

I have some Honda Civic buckets in my 93 standard cab, I will post some pics of it tomorrow. It was a really easy install and I got the seats for 60 bucks on craigslist!

 

im putting camaro seats in my toyota tonight or tomorrow

 

my concern is that i want to put them into a standard cab

 

yeah mine too... i hate my bench seat

 

my bench seat is poking me in the back with its evil spring so i will liberate my back and put some 30th anniversary camaro buckets in

 

i thought i would have to make an offset bracket as well, but if you peel back the carpet, there's a hole in the floor bracket that's already there in the correct spot. the holes are drilled for all seat configurations. there's just no nut on the back, so you either have to tack a nut on or put a bolt through from the inside and put the nut on the outside.

i have no pictures of what i'm talking about, but trust me, no fab is needed for this swap. i did it in about 20-25 minutes and only had to drill one hole, in the trans tunnel.

also, if you're like me and you forgot to grab the seatbelt from the donor rig, it's fine - i still have a driver's seatbelt but it's floppy and i have to hunt for it between the seats when i get in

 

but thats only if you use seats from a same generation yota

 

That's really weird because I seem to remember (could be wrong) trying to poke a pin through the seat mount through the carpet trying to look for that hole as I know Toyota is notorious for just tacking on all the nuts for both SR5, base & Deluxe models and then outfitting them accordingly later on to make things much easier I'm guessing. And the reason I knew this was because when I installed the factory console all the holes were there.
Maybe if I pull the seats to steam clean really well underneath in the future I'll look again.

 

Celica seats in an '89 2WD single cab:

 

my bucket i got out of an 89 sr5

 

check out the link in my signature

 

i discovered it by accident; i just put the seat in with a couple of bolts so it lined up right, and went to drill. the drill popped through the carpet and it went through so easy i thought "there's either a hole already there or there's some serious rust underneath this carpet". luckily it was the former

fwiw, there were no nuts welded in, just holes drilled.

 

I have the same buckets as isaac338:



Rob

 

My seats are from a 2nd gen 4runner

I chose not to drill the hole and made a bracket that uses the existing hole, it's covered by the Husky liner.



Robb