Deuce box seat

[jimm1009]

Could someone that has a box seat for the driver measure the height off the floor to "Soldier A's" rear end please? I have twin spring seats and want to go to something different but I need to stay around the same height as the box seat due to "Dun-Laps Disease".
Jim

 

[cattlerepairman]

Yup, that cab was designed for undernourished 18 year old conscripts. Have you considered the smaller A3 steering wheel and making sure your steering column bracket is mounted all the way up? It is also possible to shorten the steering shaft. Also, an air ride seat base from a scrapped truck might offer more adjustment options. Thinner cushions on the backrest also help.

 

[M813rc]

The seat cushion top is 15" from the floor level.

I have one box seat in my M109.
Many years ago, I bought an M185 from Ft Sam with that box seat in it. Halfway through the 110 mile drive home, I was in so much back pain from that %$#^ seat I was ready to abandon the truck on the side of the highway. But I found that by slouching off to one side like I was driving a lowrider, I could just see over the hood and it didn't hurt as bad, so I got the truck home.
A friend of mine wanted a box seat, because with the back removed, it would allow him to fit in his M109 (he's a big boy!), so we traded my box seat for his springer. Both happy.
Some years later, he traded the M109 to my son for a CJ-2 jeep. After a couple of years, my son decided that since he rarely had time to drive or maintain the truck because of work/family, he was going to sell it rather than have it sit and decay.
So I bought it from him, and that wretched box seat came back to me! But I had picked up a spare springer seat in trade from Quonsethut when he built his gun truck and put a box seat in it, so that one is going into the M109.

Cheers

 

[jimm1009]

The seat cushion top is 15" from the floor level.

I have one box seat in my M109.
Many years ago, I bought an M185 from Ft Sam with that box seat in it. Halfway through the 110 mile drive home, I was in so much back pain from that %$#^ seat I was ready to abandon the truck on the side of the highway. But I found that by slouching off to one side like I was driving a lowrider, I could just see over the hood and it didn't hurt as bad, so I got the truck home.
A friend of mine wanted a box seat, because with the back removed, it would allow him to fit in his M109 (he's a big boy!), so we traded my box seat for his springer. Both happy.
Some years later, he traded the M109 to my son for a CJ-2 jeep. After a couple of years, my son decided that since he rarely had time to drive or maintain the truck because of work/family, he was going to sell it rather than have it sit and decay.
So I bought it from him, and that wretched box seat came back to me! But I had picked up a spare springer seat in trade from Quonsethut when he built his gun truck and put a box seat in it, so that one is going into the M109.

Cheers

All good ideas but my truck had MWRAP tires on it when I purchased it and it is a bear to steer even with the stock wheel. If I were to go to the A3 wheel it would require power steering for me to steer it now.
Actually my reason for asking about the box seat height is to set up a non-military seat like a seat for a Jeep but I want it to be the correct height without making a bunch of temporary wooden jigs to sit on to engineer it out (no I won't drive it like that, it is for static work only).
My whole motive is to install a slightly more comfortable seat that the dual spring seat setup that I have.
In another thread I was asking about a popular alteration using Ford F150 seats as well.

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Jim

 

[M813rc]

I agree on the smaller wheel making it tough to steer.

I babysat an M109 on 395s for a couple of years, it was a pain to steer at very low speed, even with the full sized wheel.

Cheers