Here's a video of someone setting up Pontiac Sunfire seats to fit a YJ. Looks about like the brackets for the CJ.

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I have Chevy Cavalier seats in my CJ. They were not a direct bolt in. I had to make some brackets to mount the seats to the CJ sliders. I discovered that I don't like "car" seats in the CJ. The padding on the front of the seat portion tend to make my legs hurt after a couple of hours of driving.
"Car seats" tend to sit down on the floor and your legs are straighter when driving. CJ seats sit higher, more like a truck and your legs are more bent at the knees.
Just my $.02

 

What if you just put a 3/4" block under the front legs of the seat bracket? I had to do that with my Corbeau RS seats (using their bracket) as they were flat level and I felt like I wanted to slide forward too easily. I found a piece of plastic "board" that was under a refrigerator or clothes washer (I forget what my parents had just bought at the time) and cut a couple squares of that and put them under the front. Feels a lot better now!

 

Probably more difficult to find now than they were 15 years ago, but what about YJ seats?

I believe I’ve seen threads on that here. Can someone confirm whether they are a direct drop in to the CJ seat brackets?

 

CJSIXER said some years ago:

Seats in Jeeps both CJ and YJ from 76-90 mounted in the same locations with the same bolt patterns from the factory. That does not mean that they were the same sliders just that they had the same bolt patterns.

CJs often had an angle iron type bracket on the driver side an it usually had a slider. The seat bracket on the passenger side was the flip forward type but it was an inch taller than the driver side to make up for the lack of a bracket.

87-90 YJs had the flip forward type bracket on both sides of the Jeep. They both had sliders as well. While they look similar to the factory CJ passenger side bracket they are in fact shorter since they both have sliders. Any seats used in 76-90 CJs or YJ are interchangeable and will bolt to the brackets or sliders depending on the application.

92-95 YJs use different brackets and sliders altogether. The seats were moved closer together I guess to give the driver and passenger more leg room since they had the thick half or full steel door panells taking up some of the space. The driver side bracket is a stamped steel design that does not flip forward. The passenger side on the 92-95 YJ looks like any other passenger side bracket. Both sides have sliders. These brackets are truly meant to be bolted to a different location on the floor. To put them in a 76-90 CJ or YJ you would have to either drill new holes in the floor putting the seats closer together or you would have to modify the brackets. The seats from a 92-95 YJ will not bolt to the older brackets/sliders nor will the older style seats bolt to the 92-95 brackets and sliders with out modifications.

TJ Wranglers are a whole different ball of wax entirely and are not interchangeable with any of the pre TJ stuff and would require extensive mods to work in a CJ or YJ


My comment - the rear fold and tumble seat from the YJ is a great addition to any CJ7 with a fixed seat. The rear seats from 1941 to at least a 1990 will all fit (my 1951 has a 1981 seat in the back, just drops in between the rear wheel wells).

 

Hate how the pass side in CJ is taller. All the passengers complain. Gotta be a way to lower it...

 

Purchase the YJ passenger seat mount. They are designed with a slider in mind and are as tall as the drivers side of either a CJ or a YJ. I have them in my CJ.

 

I have my old OEM sliders and new ones. The OEM ones wore out on the tilt pivots so I bought new ones that fit both the CJ and YJ. They are the same height. The OEM passenger side is higher than the new passenger side seat bracket, again, made for a slider. Measuring on both driver and passenger outer brackets from floor to the top center of the pivoting points, front is 7-1/8" and rear is 5-3/8".

 

Mine had subaru impreza seats in it when I got it. I did not like them and have since sourced some factory CJ seats to recover.

 

Ok, rereading your post I can see what you mean now. I originally took it as a lack of padding design, but it is actually too much there. Makes sense now.

78 CJ5 302HO, T177/D300, 86 WT 30/44, Aussie F/R

 

I have 1992 S-10 Blazer seats in mine. The driver's side bolted right to the slider, the passenger side needed a flat plate adapter bracket that I made. No sitting in a hole like some car seats and the recline is nice (until you hit the roll bar). Two-door Blazer seats would also fold forward so you would not have to lift the entire seat to reach something in the back (my four door seats don't do that.)

 

Keith, what year yj seat brackets did you use, may I ask and any modifications either to the seat, bracket, or floor, or was it a direct bolt in. I am more interested in the passenger side.

 

I'm not sure of the years but they are compatible with both the CJ and YJ models from 76-90 I believe, maybe even up to 1995. They are direct bolt in with no modifications and even mounted in a Repli-tub I have, which are made in the Philippines.

 

CJ7BobbyH

Hey Keith460 what year yj did your passenger side yj seat bracket come out of

 

A little bit of an old thread here, my CJ does not have a slider on the driver side and is bolted to the riser. I am trying to determine how much these sliders will allow the seat to move back.

Does any who has these installed have any idea how far back the sliders allow the seat to go?

Thanks in advance!