Au Front Seats in 80 Series

You will most likely need to get an engineers certificate.

Hi Tim,

I feel like an ignoramus. I've owned an 80 for 12 years and have never heard of an "au seat".

Please educate an old bloke and tell me more.

Cheers,
DickyBeach

Tim,
although these are 75 series Troopcarrier photos I believe the principal will be the same.

I have fitted a 78 series drivers seat to the passenger side of the troopy. In doing this the seat sits to far to the right and I have moved it 50mm toward the door.

You will probably have to put in a plate as I have to allow the use of your 80 series seat runners and the fixings in the ford seats can then be bolted through the plate.

I my case I have used 6mm aluminium plate for the seat to bolt too. I have also fitted 78 series seat runners that allow the seats to travel about 40mm further back.

Here are a couple of photos.

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All the bolts and nuts are high tensile grade 8.8

Hope this helps,
RA.

My son has AU XR8 seat in his 80 and he reckons its great.

maybe speak to a local engineer who will be signing off on the work first and see what he wants done, i did this when i put new seats in my 105 series. the actual blue plating by the engineer cost less then $150, i had to go to Qld transport next and do some paper work there because i changed from a 6 seater to a 5 seater, not sure if you'll need to do any paperwork with them, but best to check, there was no cost involved at Qld transport.
before you remove your old seat, maybe do as i did and measure how high your head is from the roof of your vehicle, sit the new seat in place and check if there is much differance between the 2 seats. i ended up using some box section steel to raise the height of my seat as it sat about 50mm lower in the new seat before modding it.

Thanks to everyone for the great replies, Finally got them all installed not so easy but very happy with the end result and wow are they comfy......I ended up mounting them using 6mm ally plates (Big thanks to Rockape for the pics) and some modifications to the original runners. no need to spend big $$$$$ on after market seats just install the AU Seats and your on a winner........