Some time ago (November 2013 to be exact) we salvaged a pair of Recaro bucket seats from our local u-pull from a mid 90's Chevrolet Lumina police car. Although these are very comfortable seats and are highly sought after, the amount of cash and time to throw at them was deemed unfeasible. Especially considering the fact that we wanted seat heaters and a total reupholstering and spring repair. These at the time were mounted along with the accompanying sliders by  using the seat of the pants method of adapting them to the stock Jeep scissor mounts by eyeballing up with the steering column by sitting in them. Looking back that was probably not a good method, because they always seemed like you were sitting on an angle. The only benefit for this build taking so long is that now cash flow is better. So the hunt was on for another pair of seats. Jeffrey settled on a pair of  Corbeau's. Item number 44901W with diamond stitched inserts and of course the mandatory

seat heaters. These seats were first spotted at York Jeep Show in 2016 installed in the Jeep Trailhawk concept. The Jeep rep said they were working with a manufacturer to possibly recreate them for production. Guess they succeeded. The Corbeau sliders were not ordered since we had the ball bearing double locking sliders of the Recaros. We started out this time by dropping a plumb bob from the center of the steering column to the floor and marked it. A measurement was taken from the inside wall to that mark and duplicated it further back then marked a straight line between them. This gave us a center line that we could use as a reference point to locate the front and back of the seats.

The seat cavity where you sit was also marked with a center line. The slider was narrowed by simply cutting and removing the required amount from the front adjusting handle and welding it back together. Two holes were drilled in the slider to match the mounting points on the bottom of the new seat. Bolted to the seat it was then set on top of the stock driver side Jeep scissor mount. A plumb bob was again used, starting from the seat mark then dropping to the floor, front and back for a perfect alignment. Holes from the sliders were then transferred to the scissor mounts, drilled and bolted in place. All this was duplicated for the passenger side with the slider eliminated. The same

measurement was marked from the inside wall as the driver side and a center line marked. Eliminating the slider had to be done because that scissor mount is higher than the drivers side and using the slider would have positioned that seat much higher than the driver side. The toggle switches that were originally mounted in the center console were replaced with the ones supplied with the seats by just opening up the holes and filing a locator notch to keep them properly clocked. The finished install is far superior than the previous and are absolutely comfortable. Jeffrey finished up the wiring by running a feed from the fuse block and tied it all together. Oh and he did say the heaters work.

Now comes the responsibility of protecting them from back pocket tools and my belt mounted measuring tape. That is gonna be a hard one for me as I don't leave home without it.