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Subject:Re: Adjust Rear Bed? (and rear seat re-foam pics)
From:neil n
Date:Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:49:29 -0700

Alistair, DeanR

Thanks a bunch. I bet it's either a hinge to high or the part Dean writes of

Neil cutting battery wood.

On 3/17/13, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>       Is it the entire depth (Front-Rear) of the DriversSide end of the
> BackSeat/Bed that is RidingHigh or is just the Front or just the Rear
> ~ I just looked at mine & what I am getting about your symptoms would
> seem to suggest that either the Bracket/HingeMechanism is somehow
> bolted in ToHigh or that there is something under the seat in the
> storage area that is not allowing it to go down all the way ~ On mine
> there does not appear to be MuchOrAny room for adjustment in where
> those Brackets are bolted to the sides of the StorageBox/SeatStand ~
>       I recall that years ago, the small steel odd shaped spring loaded
> "thingamawhatcys" that are the things that go Click when you are
> converting from bed to seat & cause the seat to take on its L shape,
> got bent or deformed some how on 1 of my Westys but I don't really
> remember just what symptom that resulted in other than they would not
> move freely & so no Click & no L shape.
>

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Neil n

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