I cut mine several years ago for room under there for a couple of subwoofers. It's a little tricky pulling out the bed and getting it back in, but a small price to pay for the sound improvement and storage flexiblility increase. What seems to happen is if you don't pull perfectly equally in the middle of the seat bottom, one side will tend to get askew and bind. Easily remedied by back tracking and starting over. No stabiliity issues once it's down however.. I guess you really need to assess how many times per year you actually pull that thing out and return it. I do it less than once a month, so it's not that big a hassle. Happy 4th America Max At 10:24 PM 7/3/2005, Doug in Calif wrote: >Anybody ever cut this bar away? > >I believe it keeps both sides of the z bed mechanism in synch as you pull >the seat out and make it into a bed and back to a bench. > >If you cut the bar out how bad is it to pull the operate it? > >It has no support for load whatsoever. > >Somebody has to have cut it out before. > >I guess I could scribe it well and cut it in the middle and reweld it back >if need be. > >I would really like to have it not be there. > >Thanks. > >Doug |
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