seanpistol
Explorer
It was a pain in the ***, but not the worst project I've taken on. It took me about 6 hours from start to finish. The tracks on the Tundra seats are about a 3/4" wider and the Subaru feet don't come close to lining up.
I cut the Suby feet off and cleaned up the tracks-
I sliced the bottom of the tundra tracks off-
To get rid of the rivets that hold the Tundra feet, I completed welded the feet onto the track-
Then I bolted the brackets in and set the Suby seat on top-
I adjusted and checked where I wanted the seats dozens of time before I tacked them on. Being tall, my Tundra drivers seat was always adjusted all the way back to drive. I set the Subaru seat so that this position was about in the middle. I can scoot the seat almost all the way back into the rear seat so that I have enough room to take a roadside nap, and can scoot far enough forward to make room for a rear passenger. Since the seats are angled higher up in the front, the majority of the load is on the rear feet. Regardless, because of how I positioned the seat further back, the front of the seat track wasn't over the front feet. I made 3/16" gussets to keep everything beefy.
The inside of the Tundra track is completely welded. The outside is tacked around the slots in the Subaru track as you can see below. Around the feet is completely welded all the way around. Here they are painted and ready to go in-
The Tundra buckle uses a 14mm bolt just like the Subaru buckle, so it bolts right in and retains the seatbelt sensor.
I think you can make any seat fit in anything, it just takes some figuring on how to go about it.
I cut the Suby feet off and cleaned up the tracks-
I sliced the bottom of the tundra tracks off-
To get rid of the rivets that hold the Tundra feet, I completed welded the feet onto the track-
Then I bolted the brackets in and set the Suby seat on top-
I adjusted and checked where I wanted the seats dozens of time before I tacked them on. Being tall, my Tundra drivers seat was always adjusted all the way back to drive. I set the Subaru seat so that this position was about in the middle. I can scoot the seat almost all the way back into the rear seat so that I have enough room to take a roadside nap, and can scoot far enough forward to make room for a rear passenger. Since the seats are angled higher up in the front, the majority of the load is on the rear feet. Regardless, because of how I positioned the seat further back, the front of the seat track wasn't over the front feet. I made 3/16" gussets to keep everything beefy.
The inside of the Tundra track is completely welded. The outside is tacked around the slots in the Subaru track as you can see below. Around the feet is completely welded all the way around. Here they are painted and ready to go in-
The Tundra buckle uses a 14mm bolt just like the Subaru buckle, so it bolts right in and retains the seatbelt sensor.
I think you can make any seat fit in anything, it just takes some figuring on how to go about it.
