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Yes--check the release cable. My fix...
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Posted by ragtop93 (more from ragtop93) on Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:06:45 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Fix the seatback release cable..., '88 900s owner, Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:27:13
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was pretty simple--here's what you need to do:
1)move the seat up as far as possible--you'll need room to do this
2) look under the seat covering for a zipper--unzip it
3) roll up the seat leather/vinyl until you can see the seat fold locks (and above the seat release lever while your at it)
4) there are two locks for each seat--basically a "cam" with a cut-out that hooks around a short stubby metal post.
5) check the steel wire cables that run from the release lever to each of the cams. Verify operation (or lack thereof) of each of the two cams. The one on my drivers seat (toward the door) was frayed and not connected to its cam. The cam on the opposite side was still connected.

THE QUICK SYNOPSIS: Splice the end of the frayed cable. Use a piece of heavy gauge wire to hook into the fixed cable and down to the release cam.

THE DETAILED FIX:
a) I took a 16 gauge splice connector (from my electrical box) and spliced it onto the end of the frayed cable.
b) the "S" shaped metal part that used to connect the wire cable to the cam was still there (in the cam) so I took it out and used it as a guide to fashion a similiarly bent piece from a heavy gauge clothes hanger and left about 5 inches of wire above that.
c) I cranked the cam to its "open" state (to give some working room)
d) I make a gap in the wire cable so that there were an equal number of individual wires on each side and slipped the "new" clothes hanger cam-connector through it and into the cam.
e) I then bent the top of the hanger wire so that it hooked over the cable release and then cut off the remainder.

All told, after I came up with this solution, it only took about 25 minutes of futzin' with it to make it work.

If the cross-over cable is broke (the one the goes behind the seat to the other side), I suppose the fix would be similar unless there is not enough cable to make the fix.

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