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Rear seat removal?

MprDoc
03-07-2009, 01:48 AM
OK, im restoring my '66 Satellite and I can not figure out how to get the back seat out! I have been told its simple "push-pull" deal but whenever I try it doesnt seem to budge. Am I just not given it enough "umph" or what? I always feel like im gonna brake something if I jerk on it to much. Any advice from someone whos done this before would be greaaaaat!

BuckNeccid
03-07-2009, 04:02 AM
If you're removing the bottom, try squatting on your feet in the rear floorboard, facing the seat, and then pushing with your knees against the front of the seat bottom. Once you get some pressure on the seat, lift upward. There are some hooks welded to your floorboard that one of the seat rods fit into. The seat has to go back to clear them, then up. If it's the upright portion of the seat, look at each corner of the bottom where it meets the floor, there is a hook on each side to catch the rods. Sometimes these hooks are bent over to retain the seat in place. Just straighten the hook, pull the bottom of the upright forward, then lift the seat upward off the upper hooks.

Gary67
03-07-2009, 05:24 AM
On a 66 Satellite the rear back/upright portion bolts in on the bottom, you have to remove the bolts first then it will drop down off the hooks that are in the top surround. The rear cushion/bottom has to come out first to get at the bolts as stated above, push the bottom toward the back/trunk and pull up quickly in one continuous motion. If you aren't quick enough on the lift the seat will just go back into the bracket. I scanned a diagram that shows the position of the brackets...

69 Runner
03-07-2009, 02:31 PM
One thing. Depending on how well the seat bottom fits, it may be caught under the "hooks" on the floor. (remember, the ends turn DOWN)

So what you may have to do is (in one motion as best as possible) push down, back, then lift up.

If you're trying to push the seat bottom back and it doesn't move back, then you will need to do the "down, back, up" as I stated