Recent content by tucson_sailors

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Not the problems I'm trying to solve for. Have a lady friend with, um, very wide hips who cannot fit into the default seat with my tufffy center console. This would allow for the non constriction of her, on the occasion she would want to drive - trying to interest her in off-roading, but as a...

Looks like the default mounts, any additional brackets or bracing must be unique to the actual wider seta frame itself, not to the mounting. Cool beans, thanks for the shots. Glenn

Would like to see a couple of pics of the frame mount detail at the floor level in front and back on the wider seat. Distance between frame rails on the wider would also be helpful. I'm seeing the notch out on the cushion for the shift levers, if I do a swap the way I would like, would have to...

Wow. Just wow. Amazing restoration thread. Good work and I will be following that to see when all the pretty, pretty pictures are up there. Those wider seats would probably do the trick, I'll be interested in how the frames are put together to allow for the heater to be under them but yet be...

Have a read. If you don't have upgraded account you'll miss a lot of the photos but the info might be enough to follow. I only did the front, but I do have a back set to match that I'll get around to someday. Turns out its neither the BMW or PT Cruiser I was thinking of. Glenn...

When I swapped out my front seats, I had found a thread where someone had replaced the back with a 60/40 split out of another model/make of SUV. However, he had to make custom mount brackets *and* open up the seat cover and custom "carve" (think electric knife) of the foam to allow the doors to...

All right! Now I'm a unicorn hunter. :) They exist, but are really darn rare. Which means that *somewhere* there may be one that exists that can be measured and at least allow for possible other models/makes being shoehorned into place based on a custom frame, etc. Thanks for the confirmation...

Was wondering if in all the "rest of the world" variants of the FJ60/62 if there was ever a front bench seat. Did a search on this forum....there are a helluva lot of posts that contain "bench" and "seat" but nothing with a combination of the two in the order I'm looking for. Pretty sure its a...

Just $.02 for future thread searches. If bushings are rubber, don't use vaseline. BAD. Use a non petroleum lubricant, it won't cause the rubber to rot. If poly bushings, then vaseline should be ok. Glenn in Marana

Just wached Michael Palins "Pole to Pole" travel series. Episodes 4 and 5 have several FJ60/62 and some variant of the 70 series, as well as a Patrol and what looked like some Land Rovers. Driving across Africa. Glenn in Marana.

Might be worth pulling the interior blower fan motor and using electrical contact cleaner on the coils and such to get rid of accumulated crud/gerdue . Could also see if its possible to clean and re-grease the bearings. Might be just trying to draw more amps due to worn bearings or worn...