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re-positioning the seatback release lever 120-130

posted by  TomTom on  Thu Nov 27 00:09 CST 2008
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Hi all!

My 1970 RHD 2-door Amazon comes with the seat-back release lever on the 'wrong side' for the driver; it's located on the inside of the seat, which makes it difficult to do that nifty movement when you have both hands full, and you want to tread on the lever and push the back with your knee, to get your two bags of shopping onto the back seat in one easy movement. I think it may have been positioned as it is so that the driver of a LHD car can let people into the back easily, without leaning right over, but I find that I would rather it was on the outside of the seat.

So...is this just a question of getting the right spindle, with its lever on the outside, and swapping it in, or are there pitfalls with this? THanks for any advice.

Tom








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    posted by  alschnertz on  Thu Nov 27 02:24 CST 2008
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    Not positive about the 122 seats, but if it's like a 140 seat, you can swap the mechanisms. I'd suspect the 122 seats can be done that way as well.

    I have swapped seatbacks on my 140s to equalize the wear and have noticed that most parts are easily interchangeable between the right and left seats. The exception being the lumbar adjustment wheel because that would entail removing the upholstery.







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    re-positioning the seatback release lever 120-130

    posted by  walrus3 on  Thu Nov 27 01:39 CST 2008
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    Is your other front seat the same way, or opposite?
    Maybe your seats are switched.
    Otherwise your assumption is correct - you just have the wrong hand spindle.
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    George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!







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