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    Default What have i done.. project M715 JeepHELP!

    I just bought a 68 M715 Kaiser with the hopes of making the interior into a bench seat as well as adding a bench to the bed. Has anyone seen this done? Or have any intel?

    thanks in advance!

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    IIRC, a bench seat from a J-truck fits quite easily. Bench seats from other trucks are probably quite easy to modify.

    I do recall seeing several vehicles with seats in the back, but I can't think of the owners' names...

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    Barrman had a bench seat in the bed for a FE in Buena Vista. I don't remember exactly how he had it bolted in.
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    In my first truck I bolted a back seat from a CJ 7 into the bed. I faced it backwards at the front of the bed. The center point of the seat belts is attached to the seat frame on a CJ seat so I only needed to add a couple holes in the bed for the seat and a couple more for the belts.

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    Here's your bench seat:



    J-truck seat obtained at a rural Wyoming salvage yard, upholstery kit obtained online, installed by two people with limited knowledge, lots of hog rings, and unlimited beer.

    It's a straight bolt-up with 1 1/4" square-section tube as a riser, and all-thread securing it to the factory nuts welded to the floor.

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    Nice!
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    I welded hoops to allow a 3rd row Suburban seat to lock in and be removable. Mine faced forward. There is a thread about it from 2007 but the pictures are all dead.

    Binford put a seat in facing backwards. I have a shot of both our trucks above 12,000 feet back in 2008 at the FE in Buena Vista Colorado:

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    J-truck seats are probably not all that easy to find, so alternatives may be worth looking at. Wyoming salvage yards tend to be time capsules, so the variety of their vehicles is wider.

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    If you're not in a hurry I'll be able to post pics with a 71 F-250 bench installed. But I'll need to rebuild the 390 and get all that installed first... probably next spring..

    The Ford bench measured out okay on width, I imagine it'll need spacers of some sort. I also measured out an 85 Chevy bench from the first engine donor truck. Would have fit but the seat was too trashed. Bench from a 93 Chevy also... I think all full size pickup benches are pretty close on width.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brute4c View Post
    Nice!
    Thanks Jon!

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