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Front Passenger Seat Reclining Lever Removal

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I am installing seat heaters into my 98 SVT. I am trying to get the reclining lever off the passenger seat so I can take the seat apart but I can't figure out how. I see a wire of sorts that looks like it may hold it into place but I've tried moving it to see if it helps but no luck, maybe I am doing something wrong?

If anyone knows how to remove this please let me know.

Thanks
 
nevermind....

I got it. Just needed to remove the entire wire. Didn't notice the other side was also holding it.
 
Did the same thing on mine, started a thead and then figured it out, lol. It's a C shaped clip that needs prying off to one side for future reference...
 
yeah, I didn't notice it was in the other side as well. Just thought I had to remove part of it to get it to come off.

Also, that passenger seat is a kinda a PITA to take apart. I figured the driver seat would be more difficult but the passenger is the most. Once I figured it out it wasn't bad but I looked over that seat for a while :crazy:

When you installed the seat back heating element, how did you do yours? It looks like the cushion can just be pulled right out of the seat back. I figured I would just pull it out, cut probably 3-4" off the heating element and then glue the heating element to the cushion and reinstall the cushion/heater into the seat back. Not sure if that how other contour seats look but thats the way my SVT seats look.
 
I just pushed the leather up and jammed the seat heater up there, and straightened it out. For the bottom, I just pulled the foam right out.
 
yeah, my fear of just jamming the heater up there is it maybe slipping and getting bunched up behind the seat cover.

How did you just pull the cushion out of the bottom? My bottom cushion was held to the cover with a total of 11 hog rings. Don't think I could have really gotten to them without disconnecting the cushion from the seat base first.

I didn't get a chance to work on the seats today unfortunately.
 
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