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For many of us, the shape our RAMs bucket seats, especially on Rebel and Special trim models seem to cause back pain. Especially lower back pain, which can be elevated a bit by tilting the lower seat up, but it's not always enough and especially bad if you are a taller person. There usually isn't enough adjustment to make it go away.
But there is a simple albeit not exactly cheap fix, called Seat Jackers by Desert Does it. It's essentially a pair of aluminum spacers that fit on the front of the seat mounts to raise the front 1" over stock. At $89 they sound pricey, but they are well made, designed, built and installed in a way I would trust in a collision than something I would try to fab up. There is a 15% discount code still active, well worth it's weight in gold if you have back pain driving these trucks. Out the door with discount code, I paid $76.50.
By raising the seat in the front by 1", it gives you much more leg and thigh support which alleviates the stress on your lower back. Before I couldn't drive 1/4 mile without starting to feel some lower back pain, now I can drive 50 miles and not feel any pain at all. A couple of other members here have done the same thing with similar results.
It's honestly night and day difference. They have been pretty well known in the Toyota community, but recently started producing them for current and previous gen RAM trucks, Jeeps and Durango's.
Link to site: FRONT SEAT JACKERS® (2019-2022 RAM 1500)
My Installation Notes supplemental to the factory installation directions:
- You will need a 12mm E-Torx socket for your seat bolts. You need to remove both the front seat bolts and loosen the rears for this installation.
- You will also need a 15mm socket for the supplied bolts with the kit to finish the installation.
- The plastic covers that hide the front two seat bolts pull straight out towards you. A single clip holds them in place.
- The right rear seat bolt is uncovered, but the left rear seat bolt is covered by a plastic housing with a clip-over cover, just use a flat head screwdriver to remove the cover and expose the bolt.
- The stock seat bolts are on pretty tight all the way through, something like 10-15 ft-lbs almost all the way from beginning to end of the thread. No Loctite needed when putting them back on.
- However, the two new bolts used to tighten the seat rails to the spacers will require blue Loctite.
- Torque wrench is recommend to tighten all the bolts to 27 ft-lbs.
But there is a simple albeit not exactly cheap fix, called Seat Jackers by Desert Does it. It's essentially a pair of aluminum spacers that fit on the front of the seat mounts to raise the front 1" over stock. At $89 they sound pricey, but they are well made, designed, built and installed in a way I would trust in a collision than something I would try to fab up. There is a 15% discount code still active, well worth it's weight in gold if you have back pain driving these trucks. Out the door with discount code, I paid $76.50.
By raising the seat in the front by 1", it gives you much more leg and thigh support which alleviates the stress on your lower back. Before I couldn't drive 1/4 mile without starting to feel some lower back pain, now I can drive 50 miles and not feel any pain at all. A couple of other members here have done the same thing with similar results.
It's honestly night and day difference. They have been pretty well known in the Toyota community, but recently started producing them for current and previous gen RAM trucks, Jeeps and Durango's.
Link to site: FRONT SEAT JACKERS® (2019-2022 RAM 1500)
My Installation Notes supplemental to the factory installation directions:
- You will need a 12mm E-Torx socket for your seat bolts. You need to remove both the front seat bolts and loosen the rears for this installation.
- You will also need a 15mm socket for the supplied bolts with the kit to finish the installation.
- The plastic covers that hide the front two seat bolts pull straight out towards you. A single clip holds them in place.
- The right rear seat bolt is uncovered, but the left rear seat bolt is covered by a plastic housing with a clip-over cover, just use a flat head screwdriver to remove the cover and expose the bolt.
- The stock seat bolts are on pretty tight all the way through, something like 10-15 ft-lbs almost all the way from beginning to end of the thread. No Loctite needed when putting them back on.
- However, the two new bolts used to tighten the seat rails to the spacers will require blue Loctite.
- Torque wrench is recommend to tighten all the bolts to 27 ft-lbs.
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