Fixed seat height postition

As most of us know, the Tacoma's seats don't provide enough adjustment to suit some of us, me included. I did something that worked on my 99 Prerunner. I replaced the bolts holding down the rear of the seat frame 1/2" longer bolts and enough washers to raise the seat 3/8" - 1/2".

It doesn't sound like much but it put the seat in a more comfortable position for me. You can obviously vary the amount of lift at the rear of the seat depending on how many washers you stack under the rear seat frame brackets. Be sure to get appropriately longer bolts so the seat is securely fastened to the floor.

I can now postion the seat far enough back so the headrest doesn't contact my head, and the reach to the top of the steering wheel is more comfortable. A quick, easy and cheap fix.

 

Make sure the grade of the bolts you use is the same, or ideally, better. You will be applying more torque on it now in the event of a crash and you want that thing to hold up.

 

Good point, thanks for bringing it up. The bolt heads had some letters/numbers on them but I don't know how to read the grade. I'm guessing they were a good grade since they were $2.40 each (metric size).

The original bolts had no markings on the head other than a small straight line on opposite sides (like at 9 and 3 o'clock).

 

here's a cheater

https://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-information/materials-and-grades/bolt-grade-chart.aspx