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Subject:Re: seat "guide pieces"
From:Derek Drew
Date:Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:06:33 -0500

Loosen the four bolts that hold the seat swivel on under the seat.

These bolts, unless you have changed them, I think, are the crushed
kind that is Ok to leave loose. Or, use blue Loctite on them.

I've been driving around on loosened bolts since 1994 or so, and I'm
glad for it.

At 07:09 PM 2/21/2008, you wrote:
>Does anyone have a pic of these installed and working properly?  I lubed the
>seat tracks and they are working better, but still not like butta. 91GL.
>Thx, Michael.
>
>On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <
>scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> > He's talking about these little flat pieces of plastic that are in the
> > regular seat tracks.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> > Richard A Jones
> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:22 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: seat "guide pieces"
> >
> > > when you say "slide", do you really mean "rotate/swivel"??
> > > cause the "upper guide pieces" i see in the ekta have to do with the
> > > round swivel plate, not the fore-aft slider rails of the normal seat.
> >
> > No, look for 251 881 213--item #8 in illustration 126-00 of ETKA.
> > It goes in the forward/backward glide rails.  One for each side.
> >
> > Richard
> >

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