Suggestions wanted: Procar 90 seat mounting for FJ40 (1 Viewer)

[knuckle47]

I did not order the seat mounts made for the FJ40 made by pro-car.

I have this idea for mounting the seats and sliders to the stock seating posts

Any other ideas I am not seeing?

 

[1911]

I did not order the seat mounts made for the FJ40 made by pro-car.

I have this idea for mounting the seats and sliders to the stock seating posts

Any other ideas I am not seeing?

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The ProCar mounts that I bought were poorly made and had to be modified to work, so you probably didn't miss much by not buying them. But mine is a late 40 with the gas tank under the tub and different seat mounts, so I can't be much help to you, sorry. Good luck with your install; you will like the seats once they are in.

 

[knuckle47]

Thanks… I’ll say this much, it took me a bit of thinking to figure out how the slides fit on the bottom of the seat. They also seemed as though they were painted shut. My hand strength was not enough to hold the spring slide long enough to rubber mallet the slide to expose the bolt holes. I will assume once mounted they will slide effortlessly. And, even those holes were off-center enough to make it tough to start the threads without cross-threading

Thanks for the thoughts. Did the seats mount a bit higher on the optional ProCar mounts?

The 1/2 page 10th generation copy of faded black toner ink on the light blue paper was near useless..

 

[thatcabledude]

Not much different than how I did mine. I tied the factory seat brackets together with some thick bar stock and then added tabs to that. The Procar 90s are mounted as low as the can be.

These are the only pics I have.

 

[knuckle47]

@thatcabledude geez, that came out great…those welds are beautiful. So, I may rethink the rectangular tube but ..it was in my “rust to dust” pile. it was 42” long AND I need two at 21”.

Did you grind off the rivets that secure the 90* stock seating posts / seat belt mount? I have that on my ‘75 passenger seat

 

[thatcabledude]

Did you grind off the rivets that secure the 90* stock seating posts / seat belt mount? I have that on my ‘75 passenger seatView attachment 3992861

The factory seatbelt stuff was already gone when I got the truck. They had installed 4 point harnesses at some point. I have went back to normal retractable lap belts using something different than stock.

 

[knuckle47]

@thatcabledude Well, it looks great… funny about that attachment on each side, it is bolted in one hole and riveted in the two forward holes. Has to be some kind of assembly trick? Why not rivet or bolt the whole thing?

 

[1911]

Did the seats mount a bit higher on the optional ProCar mounts?

The ProCar mounts are just heavy tubes that fit fore and aft between the vertical tabs on the seats, and poorly welded to whatever is needed to fit the stock mounting position.

The seats do sit higher than stock, even on the lowest setting (topmost of the three sets of holes). Plus, the foam is much thicker than the worn out stock seat foam.

 

[knuckle47]

Good to know…. Despite the upholstery being in excellent condition, I do sit in a bit of a hole and I remember your comment before I decided to go this route….. better than 50 year old dead foam

That was my motivation…just the right words. I can’t wait to get these installed. I am still trying to finish the terrain tamer springs…1 more to go

 

[brian]

This what I had come up with before I redid my oe seats.

 

[thatcabledude]

Very nice.

 

[knuckle47]

@brian. Thank you for the photos. So I am thinking I am on the right track. I don’t want to hack my original seats and kill the original hardware in case some future buyer may want to have them.

I thought I’d have to go higher over the fuel tank cover on my ‘75 but you seem to have plenty of room as does @thatcabledude. The pictures really really helped….thank you.

Today I had unfortunately spent over an hour trying to lift the rear tire back on the drum…3 corners of the terrain tamer are finished. I knew I was getting weaker but that was a nightmare. It’s 3:45 and I’m inside watching tv….haha. Wasted

 

[Its me shaneus]

working on this myself. It started as adding efi with an in tank pump. Had to lift oem passenger seat.

Hard part is getting passenger seat low enough and not still winding up with driver seat too high in order to make them level.

Started with high hopes it was possible. About to give up and just cave in to driver seat not being as high up.

Pic of my in progress passenger seat mount. Was trying to make it kinda mirror driver side toolbox with de sta co style clamps on both sides. In passenger sude this would make getting at fuel pump / sender, plumbing as easy as hinging seat back after opening clamps.

 

[peesalot]

To keep mine low as possible I did like the thecabledude and used the stock sliders and bolted the seats to them, I had to weld on tabs cause the seat holes were a bit narrower than the track, I should have ran bars all the way across like he did. no issues so far. I have found the gap created when the pass seat is folded and slid forward is very nec with a full caged 40.

 

[knuckle47]

@It’s me shaneus that is creative . I started with the passenger side so I’ve not yet discovered the difference between the two. Great color you’ve got there. I was hoping that I would get an extra 1 1/2” or so on the drivers side only based on my stock seat. But as @1911 did say…that’s 50 year old dead foam…and so true

I was a bit concerned about my own in tank fuel pump but it is easily cleared from the seat slide. Nice job you’re doing

 

[Its me shaneus]

A few more pics of brackets. Not the graceful clean approach I had hoped for, also not hitting the goal of from scratch on the driver side. In the interest of just getting it going again I re cycled the stock base of the driver side. Not really happy with this but its drivable again.

Driver side:

Passenger side:

Will post after installation pics.

 

[Its me shaneus]

Passenger side in. Happy with this side (driver side ). Lays back to mirror driver side.

 

[charliemeyer007]

Very nice!