BsmittyXJSTL

Ol girl has 247k on her and the previous owner was a big lady...nuff said. So while I had the seat out to fix the bracketing to eliminate perma g lean I also explored my options to revitalize the poor butt cushion that gave all it had till the bitter end.

Boom

bad_idea

Please elaborate on the frame fixing. Mine leaned pretty bad when I bought it. I swapped the bottom cushions as a temp fix. Hope to find some WJ seats before it leans again. But just in case.

BsmittyXJSTL

Shoulda taken pics but the seat framing in my case was easily repaired with a bolt a couple washers and a nut. mine was broken in the circled area so every time I was in the seat it leaned quite a bit to the left and to the rear and adjusting the seat was also made very difficult because of the flaccid framing.



You just gotta get in there and peel the padding back till you see the frame. Some said it had to be welded, I was like you and looking for some nice heated leather WJ seats but then I just said F it, took the seat out and took care of the issue.

bad_idea

Yours a 97+? My 90 doesn't have any frame work under the outer half of the seat by design. They fixed that in later years. I thought you were talking about the earlier frames.

BsmittyXJSTL

Nope mines a 2001, not familiar with the older ones. They clearly did not fix the weak frames though cause mine was toast in that spot.

bad_idea

97+ is an abbreviation for 97-01 Cherokees. 96- is an abbreviation for 84-96 Cherokees. 97 was a transition year for the XJs. The newer seat frames are much better than the older ones. Half of the seat cushion is completely unsupported on the older ones.

BsmittyXJSTL

my bad. Thought you wrote 97 or older.

bad_idea

No sweat. No insult taken or intended.