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Craig, thanks for bringing this up. After 4+ years of not working properly, my
seat now works! Saturday evening I pulled my passenger seat out, plopped it on
the living room floor, and my cats and I began inspection. Here's a copy of my
notes, hope it helps. Make a printout, get your seat, and follow along.
Put the seat in front of you with the back of the seat facing you, as if you
were sitting in the back seat facing forward. Tilt the seatback forward. Down
the side where the slide handle is (the round release knob) is an elbow at the
base of the seat back. Above the elbow on the inside you'll see a cable. The
cable is held by a bracket secured by a Phillips screw. Loosening the screw
allows adjustment of the cable. Move the bracket up to allow more pull on the
release lever. Your cable may have stretched and doesn't pull the flapper out
all of the way, which causes the release pawl (hook) not to retract fully. Thus
the seat is stopped by the pawl on the release knob side or the second release
pawl (the one on the opposite side) isn't being retracted as far as it could be.
If the cable adjustment won't help look under the seat. The main rod is elbowed
in the see-saw lever. My see-saw lever has two holes on the main rod side but I
had no easy way to put the main lever in the other hole. The second rod on the
see-saw lever is in a slot. What I did is take a small screw, put a wide washer
on it at the head and put it in the slot (in the part of the slot furthest from
the length of the main rod) so it would push the secondary lever back more
towards the release knob side. I secured the screw with a self-locking nut.
The screw and a slight upward adjustment of the cable bracket fixed the problem!
The mechanism is very simple, just look at it, push the cat's curious nose out
of the way, and fiddle. Anyone with some mechanical aptitude can rig up
something to have the pawls retract more.
Toby Erkson
air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
modified '72 Squareback 2.0L
stock '75 Porsche 914 1.8L
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Subject: Re: Restoring Seats
Author: type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date: 10/25/96 9:34 AM
My passenger seat doesn't fold forward either. I haven't taken the
seat out and thoroughly looked at things, yet, but maybe I will this weekend...