Lowering Powered 98 XJ seats?

ert01

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Edmonton, Alberta

• Apr 28, 2009

• #1

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone else has tried to lower the factory XJ powered seats... they're just a tad too high and no amount of adjustment can get them comfortable. Do I have room to play with the brackets and lower then or will the motors get in the way? Are there other seats from other vehicles that swap in decently for a lower seat height? I'm not looking for aftermarket fancy seats, just something comfortable as a DD...

Thanks!
Mark

 

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veedubshafer

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Palmerton PA

• Apr 28, 2009

• #2

I recently swapped leather seats into my '90 XJ and the power bases were just too high so I ended up swapping the bases with my old manual seats...just my story.

 

ert01

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Edmonton, Alberta

• Apr 28, 2009

• #3

No one has had any experience with lowering the seats?

 

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BobDog

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Eugene, Oregon

• Apr 28, 2009

• #4

ert01 said:

No one has had any experience with lowering the seats?

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Is Canada metric? Maybe thats why they're too high. :wave1:

 

ert01

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Edmonton, Alberta

• Apr 29, 2009

• #5

Haha I don't think that's why...


OT: you have no idea how much headache I have at work sometimes dealing with metric/imperial system conversions... our engineers design in metric but we use parts from the US and from Canada so things often don't go together as nicely as the engineers dream up. It's just not a fun time. When you all finally see the light and come to the Metric side, the world will be a much happier place.

 

tonofclay2

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Clovis, CA

• Apr 29, 2009

• #6

I swapped in 89 XJ 3-way adjustable seats into my 99 and had to do a mix of bracketry from old and new to get it to fit. My main goal was to lower the seats as well and get actual bucket seats (fleet model crap seats). I was actually able to lower the rear only about a half an inch and the front about 3/4". Its seriously hard cuz there isn't much to work with. ZJ seats from about the same year are supposed to fit in, there is an excellent junk yard swap thread on here that is very popular that I got a lot of my ideas from.

 

hubs97xj

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Fort Wayne, IN

• Apr 29, 2009

• #7

I put ZJ buckets into mine, and they sit higher than the original seats- maybe an inch or so? Comfy, but not the way to go if you're looking to go lower.

 

MoparManiac

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Amherst, NH

• Apr 29, 2009

• #8

I just put ZJs in mine as well.

I'm going to cut off/reweld the brackets to see if I can drop them an inch or so. They would be a lot more comfortable.

 

ert01

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Edmonton, Alberta

• Apr 29, 2009

• #9

I think I'm going to have to ditch the power seat and work with the brackets from a manual seat... I was poking around alst night and I kinda have a game plan, but I need the manual seat brackets to play with first. Time for another trip to the junkyard!