Anyone use the seat bracket kit that SOR supplies? It allows the use of the longer version of the jump seats with a roll bar by moving slightly forward. Pictures? How well did it work? Was there anything that needed to be done other than just bolting on the kit?
SOR jump seat bracket kit
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I had one in a Cruiser I no longer have. It worked fine. You need to drill new holes in the top of the fender for the bottom bolts of the seats. You may also need to relocate the rubber stops on the bottom of the seat.
Shawn
Shawn
It works, but not great. As Shawn said, you have to redrill the holes in the fender. Moving the rubber bumpers is critical, as they will miss, but there is more to it than that.
I ended up having to put some shims under the rear legs of the seats, so the seat back did not rest right on the roll bar, which caused a bad rattle. I also made my own rear bracket, cut off the factory one and extended it over to the tub wall on the rear mounts just to simplify things, but all this work was done during a restoration.
The rubber bumper things are the real hang up. When you put your seats down now, the seat bottom has a slight upward slant, and the seat back slants back towards window/wall. The rubber bumper lands on the edge of the fender well. After moving it out, depending on how you place everything, the seat will probably be kicked forward with the bottom being much flatter and the seat back straight up, equals far less comfort. But the support bumper is now 2-3 inches further inward. One of my seats, from prior use this way was bent, due to the lack of support. The seats just can't hold up with the loss of support.
I moved my bumpers back and reinforced the mounting point and put a welded nut inside, just like the factory mount, but I also fabbed up similar mounting points on the leading edge of the seat and made swing down legs to support the seat. This has worked very well, especially if you intend to use the seat very much. If you just drill a new hole and bolt the bumper to the sheetmetal of the bottom of the seat, it will bend.
I'm personally looking into bench seat alternatives now, the jump seats are awesome, but now I have a little girl, and the jump seats are worthless for legally transporting children now a days. Guess I'm going to have to upgrade. I'm considering either a ready made bench, a suzuki rear seat, or using two newer style jump seats and modding them to fold down, like a bench from each side for a more factory look.
I ended up having to put some shims under the rear legs of the seats, so the seat back did not rest right on the roll bar, which caused a bad rattle. I also made my own rear bracket, cut off the factory one and extended it over to the tub wall on the rear mounts just to simplify things, but all this work was done during a restoration.
The rubber bumper things are the real hang up. When you put your seats down now, the seat bottom has a slight upward slant, and the seat back slants back towards window/wall. The rubber bumper lands on the edge of the fender well. After moving it out, depending on how you place everything, the seat will probably be kicked forward with the bottom being much flatter and the seat back straight up, equals far less comfort. But the support bumper is now 2-3 inches further inward. One of my seats, from prior use this way was bent, due to the lack of support. The seats just can't hold up with the loss of support.
I moved my bumpers back and reinforced the mounting point and put a welded nut inside, just like the factory mount, but I also fabbed up similar mounting points on the leading edge of the seat and made swing down legs to support the seat. This has worked very well, especially if you intend to use the seat very much. If you just drill a new hole and bolt the bumper to the sheetmetal of the bottom of the seat, it will bend.
I'm personally looking into bench seat alternatives now, the jump seats are awesome, but now I have a little girl, and the jump seats are worthless for legally transporting children now a days. Guess I'm going to have to upgrade. I'm considering either a ready made bench, a suzuki rear seat, or using two newer style jump seats and modding them to fold down, like a bench from each side for a more factory look.
I don't understood how this kit is intended to work.
I had a little bit of trouble doing the long seats and the roll bar. ended up having to box out the wheel well a bit to have a place for the leg. the well is nearly flush with the door jam normally.
got some nice rubber bumpers with threaded studs on one end from Mcmaster- Carr to replace the stock bumpers as they were not working in the new location. I tapped the seat frame.
mabey it was just me. I held the roll bar with padding back from the side panel by about 1/2 " on each side. The bracket pushes the seat out more than 1" i know that.
someone can enlighten me as to where the arm-rest bolt to
when you use this kit.
I had a little bit of trouble doing the long seats and the roll bar. ended up having to box out the wheel well a bit to have a place for the leg. the well is nearly flush with the door jam normally.
got some nice rubber bumpers with threaded studs on one end from Mcmaster- Carr to replace the stock bumpers as they were not working in the new location. I tapped the seat frame.
mabey it was just me. I held the roll bar with padding back from the side panel by about 1/2 " on each side. The bracket pushes the seat out more than 1" i know that.
someone can enlighten me as to where the arm-rest bolt to
when you use this kit.
