- Location
- New Mexico
Last year I replaced my factory front seats with Grand Cherokee seats. This made a HUGE improvement in my comfort but I was still having issues on long trips (anything more than half a day). I have had issues on long trips in any car for years (i assume it is my sciatic nerve) with my right leg hurting from my hip to my ankles, it eventually goes numb; but in the XJ it was really a problem.
So after trying to figure out why it was soo bad in the XJ I realized that the seat is too far right. This causes a couple of issues.
1. My leg is always cocked left around the Transmission hump to reach the gas and brake.
2. Because of the shape of the Transmission tunnel the right side of the seat was pinned against the tunnel. The left side could move freely but the right side could not. This resulted in a lot of pressure on my right hip and leg.
3. The driver was not lined up with the stearing wheel.
So I decided to move the seat to the left 1 inch.
The rear mounts have plenty of surface to make new slots an inch over from the factory ones so that was easy. The only extras stuff I had to do was make one side of the washer for the left rear bolt flat because the new whole was too close the vetical part of the seat mount.
The front was a different story, the mounts are not wide enough. I ended using a piece of 1.5X1.5 steel. I drilled holes for to mount it to the factory mounts using allen head bolts so there would be less interference when the seats where installed. Then I drilled holes 1 inch off to bolt in the factory locations on the floor.
Right Rear
Left Rear (I had to cut about an inch off the left edge to clear the pillar post)
Front (backside)
Front installed
So far it feels much better. I have not been vary far but just being lined up with the paddles already feels a lot more comfortable.
So after trying to figure out why it was soo bad in the XJ I realized that the seat is too far right. This causes a couple of issues.
1. My leg is always cocked left around the Transmission hump to reach the gas and brake.
2. Because of the shape of the Transmission tunnel the right side of the seat was pinned against the tunnel. The left side could move freely but the right side could not. This resulted in a lot of pressure on my right hip and leg.
3. The driver was not lined up with the stearing wheel.
So I decided to move the seat to the left 1 inch.
The rear mounts have plenty of surface to make new slots an inch over from the factory ones so that was easy. The only extras stuff I had to do was make one side of the washer for the left rear bolt flat because the new whole was too close the vetical part of the seat mount.
The front was a different story, the mounts are not wide enough. I ended using a piece of 1.5X1.5 steel. I drilled holes for to mount it to the factory mounts using allen head bolts so there would be less interference when the seats where installed. Then I drilled holes 1 inch off to bolt in the factory locations on the floor.
Right Rear
Left Rear (I had to cut about an inch off the left edge to clear the pillar post)
Front (backside)
Front installed
So far it feels much better. I have not been vary far but just being lined up with the paddles already feels a lot more comfortable.