On my 1990 FLHS the front seat mount is captured under a tab that is part of the rear mount for the gas tank. I'm going to be putting on a Road King tank, console and seat. The Road King seat mounts with a tab on the front of the seat bottom that goes through a square/rectangular hole in the frame forward of where the battery is located in a RK. Anyone do this seat change?

Thanks.

Frank

 

Haven't done exactly that, but I imagine that you'll have to fab a tongue for the late seat that bolts to where you bolt the rear of the tank mount. I put a 2006 seat on my 89, basically the same bike, and extended the tongue on the stock tank to make it work.

 

The tongue on a Road King seat (at least on a 2001RK) doesn't go under a tank tab. It goes through a square/rectangular hole through the flat section of the frame just behind where the frame backbone connects to the rear section of the frame under the front of the seat.

 

Spent quite a bit of time searching for older threads where members had fitted up/modded newer seats to older bikes. I'd appreciate any help if you can find any. From what I can find so far it looks like for touring frames the mounting options were:

1. Seat pan bolted to grab handle seat pan tang under tang on tank rear mount
2. Frame tang into seat pan slot and rear bolt to fender
3. seat tang unto frame slot and rear bolt to fender

If anyone knows of other options on "90 and newer touring bikes I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Frank

 

Thats correct, however that's not possible on the early frame IIRC, it won't let the seat sit correctly on the frame as it was designed, that's why the extended tang was used in my case.