I posted this in my Chinook thread, but figured I'd make a thread just for it. Partly because I'm just really happy it worked, and partly because hopefully it'll help some people. More of my patented "tech-light" work.

I got these out of either a Honda or Acura from the early 90s. Same thing. I was going back & forth between the two in a junk yard and I think in this case the Honda seats were a little nicer.



I'll say that some of this will depend on your year truck, and might depend on whether you originally had bench seats or bucket seats, as far as whether you have all the tracks you need.

Since I don't weld and don't have much for fabrication skills, and don't want to pay for the work, I thought quite a bit about how to get these seats in. I drilled new holes in the cab of my 83 for its seats, and they work, but they don't feel solid, and they don't slide well in the tracks. I didn't want to do a hack job again...

So I got the idea that maybe the old bucket seat tracks would bolt onto the new seats...that way I'd know that the length at least would be perfect for lining up with the old threaded holes in the cab. All I had to worry about was whether the width would be right.

It was!

The only modifications this required was drilling one new hole per track, and the old tracks bolted up to the new seats, and bolted right into my cab.

Tracks from the new seats. If I used these, I would have needed to grind a little off from the bottom of the front mount for the front hole to line up, and make a bracket for the back mount, because it needs to be flat, but as you can see it's angled.





Old track next to new track. You can see the hole for the new seats is just a little shorter than the old seats.



At first I was measuring where to put the new holes...That worked, but I was a little off on the first one and had to drill again. By the last hole I was finally doing it "right". Put a bolt through the front holes, connecting the old & new track to each other and lining them up, and then the location for the new hole becomes pretty hard to miss...so I just drilled right through the hole from the new tracks, into the old tracks, and of course that was perfect.





Bolted on



Old tracks on the new seat





Front mounts



Back



And the result



The new tracks would have been an upgrade, and slide even more smoothly than the old ones, but this works much better for me anyways.

 

Good work! but personally I like 4runner passenger seats they slide way forward

 

Looks nice. I am in the process of redoing my interior. Though I am planning on putting in heated leather seats. But anyways nice job

 

Yeah, there are certainly better seats out there. Just not around here...

Even looking as close as Spokane, I find tons of BMWs and Audis getting parted out...I'd love to have some seats from them!

These are a huge upgrade from what came with it, and they've been sitting in my garage for two years. Was planning on putting them in my 83 but never got around to it.

The early 90s Honda and Acura seats are readily available and are a pretty common swap, so this should be of some use.

 

Yea luckily parts are plentiful here. I can get a good set of Acura or Honda seats for $50. But I really want leather ans heat so I'm looking at around $200 or so. I am leaning towards Audi or vw seats.