I was at the Boneyard today, and found an XT with brown front seats in very good condition. I assume they will bolt right into Murphy, the 87 GL-10 turbowagon. If not, what mods would need to be made?

Edited March 29, 201016 yr by Sonicfrog

i have no idea about your seat question , just curious why your wagons' refered to as murphy ? all the best , murph

The name?

 

Simple.

 

I bought it, not running, for $500. I replaced the engine, and when I was working on it, all sorts of things were going wrong. Intake bolts were breaking. Some of the flywheel bolt heads were stripped. I screwed up the rear main seal installation... twice. The auto parts store was selling me the wrong parts. I couldn't get the disty timing right.... etc, etc. I realized that this car was all about proving Murphy's Law to be correct, so when I finally finished, I decided the car had to be named Murphy.

Seats will swap but will be much lower. May have a problem seeing over the dash. How are the front fenders on the XT? Know someone looking for some.

I got the seats. I measured them before I pulled them. Looks like they are maybe 1/2 to 1 inch lower. I can live with that. I'll let you know what the final install shows.

Seats will swap but will be much lower. May have a problem seeing over the dash. How are the front fenders on the XT? Know someone looking for some.

 

Front and back fenders look good. The back would be hard to get as the bumper is sitting very close to the car behind it.

UPDATE: The problem with the seats is not that they are so low, the problem is that the rail that is attached to the XT seats are longer than the GL-10. The rails are interchangeable, but there will need to be spacers between the rail and the actual seat, and the lever that unlocks the seat to slide forward and backward is shorter on the GL-10 rail. Don't know if that will make a difference. Stay Tuned!

hope those seats can work out for you , my xt has really nice seats - good for distance driveing . i am all too familiar with Murphy's Law . i live it everyday all the best , murph ( paul j. murphy )

OK. Here is the skinny. The rails on the XT on both driver and passenger seats are longer than the GL seats and are too different to make this an easy swap. The passenger side rails from the GL-10 seats would fit if you drilled a new whole in the bottom of the XT seat bracket and fastened it with a bolt and nut. That would not have been difficult at all. The big obstacle lies in the drivers seats. Because of the height adjustment mechanism, the rails are more complicated. Short of doing some welding, there is no way to swap this without some serious modding, something that I don't have the time or tools to do.

 

Label this this project - FAIL.

 

Now, does anyone want to buy some XT seats in very good condition?

My car has XT6 seats in it from the previous owner. I guess he never used the lap belts because the straps from the GL wouldn't fit into the receptacles on the XT6 seats. So I just went to a yard and got some GL belt receptacles and bolted them onto the seats.

 

The seats do fit, just the outside back end of the rail doesn't have anything to bolt in to, so the seat is just held in with 3 bolts.