David,

I've never had this happen, but if you remove the seat (slide all the way
forward, then lift the rail latch with a screw driver per Bentley), you
should be able to check out the seat tilt latch.    I would guess that
either the latch is stuck (have you tried forcing the latch handle back to
the latched position?), or the latch spring or linkage  is broken.

Dave

At 11:11 AM 1/20/99 -0800, DAVID MOST wrote:
>In my new '87, the back part of the passenger seat moves back and forth
>freely without locking in any position.  While some might like this
>feature, I'd like to know if it can be fixed or if I have to find another
>seat.
>
>Has anyone had  a front vanagon seat do this?  I can't quite  see the
>mechanism, so I'm hoping someone has done this before.
>
>Thanks,
>david
>