Bucket to Bench Seat Swap?

Cup holders I find very useful since I pretty much always have a drink every time I drive. The center console wish I had. My change is all over, door pockets are full of s***t since I don't have a center console.

 

Right now I am thinking i might just tuck an ammo can under the seat and call it good enough. .30 cal cans should fit no problem and most of the stuff in my console I don't use a whole lot. I might look at fabricating a bracket for it later but that's something to look at after the seat is installed.

 

Ammo can on some sliders under the seat would be pretty legit

 

I’ve swapped in a bench seat in place of buckets. Biggest regret ever.

1) buckets were wayyy more supportive and comfortable
2) you need all new seatbelts
3) I am short, and the one piece bench made it uncomfortable to ride in my truck for my y’all friends
4) I had a manual, and anyone riding in the middle often was violated by 4th gear

 

Yeah I thought about gettin’ a bench seat but then my girlfriend would just wanna hang all over me all the time.

Give me space woman! Specially when I’m drivin the toya!

 

Do you have any pictures of the end result?
I just need to swap the female seatbelt ends right?

 

Kind of. You’ll also need a middle seat belt. All the female ends bolt into the bolts where the buckets used to bolt into the floor. I don’t have any pics of the bench seat.

 

I have the middle seatbelt and the female ends so I should be good there. Just a matter of bolting everything into the right place.

 

Yup.

 

I got the seat swapped in! It bolts right into place, even uses fewer bolts than the bucket seats did. Took it out for a rip, and I'm liking it so far. Center console has been replaced by an ammo can stuffed under the passenger's seat. It doesn't fit all the way under, so it's wedged between the seat and a ridge in the floor. Seems like only panic braking shakes it loose so that's good. Lack of cup holders is killing me but replacements are on the way. I'm going to put up a build thread, there will be more there for the interested.

 

Pics?

 

Build thread is up with pics!

 

Link?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/04-tacoma-build-thread.568440/