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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 07:08 PM
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Seat conversion

Whats it take to make 1995 4runner seats fit a 1985 4runner
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 07:36 PM
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Measurements some steal stock a welder and a 6 pack at least that's my formula. Got pics of the seats? I need some motivation to put my buckets in.
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 08:41 PM
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Driver side will fit with a little oval-ing of the bolt holes. So will the passenger side - but if you want to keep the tilt/auto-sliding feature, you'll have to swap the brackets from the 85 to the 95. Undo the hog rings and pull back the seat covers just enough to remove all the bolts. Everything lines up but you have to space out the bracket on the 95 seats because its slightly narrower.

The rear seats are a different story:
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...t-swap-118423/
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Old Apr 15, 2013 | 06:49 AM
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Wow good information. Nice work
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Old Apr 15, 2013 | 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by runner88
Driver side will fit with a little oval-ing of the bolt holes. So will the passenger side - but if you want to keep the tilt/auto-sliding feature, you'll have to swap the brackets from the 85 to the 95. Undo the hog rings and pull back the seat covers just enough to remove all the bolts. Everything lines up but you have to space out the bracket on the 95 seats because its slightly narrower.

The rear seats are a different story:
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...t-swap-118423/
X2 This is what I had to do. when I got my runner, The PO had some Nasty Red toyota seats that were all beat up in there so I swapped them out for a set out of a 94 runner.

Like an idiot I bolted them right in and then went to get into the back the next day and realized that the 94 frame did not slide. HAHA

Its really not that difficult to take the seats apart. It probably took 20 minutes after it was all said and done.
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Old Apr 15, 2013 | 12:43 PM
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Swap these brackets:
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Old Apr 17, 2013 | 02:54 PM
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Funny, I figured this swap out independantly, too. Everyone seems to weld new brackets, tracks, or fabricate brackets and bolts and all sorts of things. If you don't do it half a**ed, any of them work.

But all I needed to do to get early 90's Honda seats to fit in my 78 pickup, was swap the old mounts/sliders/brackets onto the new seats. All that required was drilling 4 new holes; one in each old seat bracket, up at the top. They then fit right on the new seats, and bolted right into the stock holes in my cab.

Great for people like me who don't weld, or have other metal-fabrication abilities/tools.
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