Rear seat mounts

OK, I know this is a bit of a schoolboy error, but I can't find the front mounts for my rear seats! I must have filed them very carefully

Does anyone have a picture of the brackets for a fold & tumble rear seat? At least if I know what it looks like then I might stand a better chance of finding it. Failing that it'll help me fab one up.

Thanks in advance for your help...

SA

 

The seat brackets or the floor brackets for a '73? Each bracket on the seat is one piece as I recall, with a spring and a pin that latches to the floor bracket. All four floor brackets are the same; the seat bracket slides under and the pins hold the seat in place. The rear seat on a '73 is not fold-and-tumble.

 

My Bestop seat has 2 brackets in front and one latch style bracket in the back. It's exactly the same as a fold & tumble except for the fact the sides have different hardware & won't fold. Is this what you have? Do you need pictures of the front or back?

 

I'm pretty sure the stock floor brackets are the same, front and back. When I had my '75 CJ-6, I could position the seat at the rear (OEM position, same location as in a CJ-5), or about 15" further forward by placing the rear seat bracket under the front floor bracket. To do this, the front floor brackets have to have a hole in the center, like the rears.

 

Hmm, I thought maybe I was thinking of a jeep in another life so I went out and looked. There is most definitely only one bracket in the back for my Bestop seat. It never had a seat or brackets in it before I bought this one so I don't know how the original is supposed to look.

 

When you took the brackets out, you didn't by chance attach them to the seat for "safe-keepin", did you? Just so everything would be "all together"? That's what I usually do, and then forget that I did it. Takes me weeks to find things that are right in front of me.

 

I thought that the fold-and-tumble rear seat might be a suspect addition rather than original!

I have two 'catches' that lock the back part of the rear seat. There is a little lever at the side of the seat that unlocks it from the upright position into a folded position. These catches attach to either side of the wheelhouse panels. That's all fine.

It's at the front of the rear seat that I'm stuck. Under the seat are 2 small protruding brackets that sit perpendicular to the floor, and run from front to back. At the front of this bracket is a 12mm hole, which I presume to be the point at which it connects into some kind of floor mounted fixing.

I suppose a picture would have really helped here, but I forgot to take one, I'm afraid.

One thing is for sure, there are no obvious parts lying about on my Jeep there's just about nothing left of it at the moment!

SA

 

factory fold and tumble seat brackets, front brackets circa 1984-86

 

awesome Jim, many many thanks