Some kind of psychic force bent one of the hinge plates in my center seat base today. The right-side hinge plate on the left-hand center seat was very bent and I couldn't fold the seat back to upright (I can't imagine what caused the bend - nothing that I'm aware of could have hit just this hinge and not the one just to its right for the right-hand seat. I was moving a sofa-bed, and had a large sheet of cardboard protecting the upholstery and there is no evidence of an impact on the cardboard. This is 1/8" steel - I'm really at a loss to explain how it happened...) I wound up taking out the hinge pins in order to get at the plate and bend it back to an approximation of its old self. Now I can't get the seat-back to align so that I can reinsert the hinge pins. The Bentley manual is useless for this. Any clues on how to get the hold-it-upright latch to stay out of the way so that I can get the holes to line up and the pin back in? Any idea what the little Mickey-Mouse-head-shaped rubber thingy is for? I'd prefer not to have to pull the upholstery off to accomplish this. TIA bcnu - Grungy (John Gladu) (Houston, TX) Opinions are just that INTERNET: jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu VOICE: 713-997-1117 '60 dddPanel walk-thru (The Bozobus)-----resting - melting 1600dp---- '89 Vanagon GL----------------------------good!----------------------- '90 Vanagon GL----------------------------good!----------------------- '68 & '69 Bugs--(Frunobulax & Bertha)-----on vacation (engineless)---- |
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