av8r4aa
09-23-2008, 09:24 PM
Hey Guys
Just learned something super easy and makes the seats much tighter.
I just swapped the left butt pad for the right. My side is now very comfortable. But on the right side, the seat was not very tight and rattled
while on the road. I got to looking at the design of the (not so) comfort seats.
It looks like the locking mechanism of the back pad to the seat section is the
release lever on the sides of each seat. The ones that you lift to allow
access to the rear 2 seats.
I turned up the lights and put on my old fogey glasses and looked closer.
The J hook catches on the metal cylinder and locks the seat from tilting
forward and leaning back. On my seats there is a black plastic wrapping around
the catch cylinder. Mine appeared to be worn down. I was getting metal to metal contact.
I grabbed a pair of not marring pliers and rotated the black plastic .
I now have virgin plastic for the J hooks to slide over and lock down on.
Now, the front seats, when you fold them back and lock , they do not clunk anymore.
Also the circumference is larger ( with the black plastic rotated) so the seat does not wiggle any more.
See, its that easy, 20 seconds to a much tighter midsection! :redspot
Spring number "9" is what is pulled to release the locks.
That "J" locks on to the seat stud and holds the back upright.
Just rotate the black plastic around the base stud to a new , unused section.
There is no disassembly required, simply pull up on the release lever and tilt the seat forward.
Hop in the back seat and look down , there are the 2 catch metal cylinders.
Just learned something super easy and makes the seats much tighter.
I just swapped the left butt pad for the right. My side is now very comfortable. But on the right side, the seat was not very tight and rattled
while on the road. I got to looking at the design of the (not so) comfort seats.
It looks like the locking mechanism of the back pad to the seat section is the
release lever on the sides of each seat. The ones that you lift to allow
access to the rear 2 seats.
I turned up the lights and put on my old fogey glasses and looked closer.
The J hook catches on the metal cylinder and locks the seat from tilting
forward and leaning back. On my seats there is a black plastic wrapping around
the catch cylinder. Mine appeared to be worn down. I was getting metal to metal contact.
I grabbed a pair of not marring pliers and rotated the black plastic .
I now have virgin plastic for the J hooks to slide over and lock down on.
Now, the front seats, when you fold them back and lock , they do not clunk anymore.
Also the circumference is larger ( with the black plastic rotated) so the seat does not wiggle any more.
See, its that easy, 20 seconds to a much tighter midsection! :redspot
Spring number "9" is what is pulled to release the locks.
That "J" locks on to the seat stud and holds the back upright.
Just rotate the black plastic around the base stud to a new , unused section.
There is no disassembly required, simply pull up on the release lever and tilt the seat forward.
Hop in the back seat and look down , there are the 2 catch metal cylinders.