1. As Jim C can attest, the broken spring can go through the seat
cover and grab SWMBO's new dress. Not a happy situation. Not a good
thing to have the spring grab SWMBO's behind in any case.
2. Yes, find a passenger seat form a junkyard and put that on yours.
3. Someone repaired a spring with a cable crimp clamp type of thing.
or a piece or tubing etc. Welding is not recommended because of the
temper.
4. Unbolt the seat from the car, pull it out. There are 3 bolts on
each side to release the bottom from the frame/slides. you do have
to be able to move the slides to get to all the bolts.
I think I popped one of my seat springs the other day, very possibly
the first. The seat always had a good bounce to it, and in particular
both sides were pretty well supported. However, I have a tendency to
plop down into the seat, and it gave way a bit more than usual, and is
not very supportive on the door side now.
My seat has been stuck in the full-back position, so I need to take it
out anyway. However, I have a few questions:
1) Am I going to do any further damage by continuing to use the seat?
As in, are the other springs under significantly more tension because
the one is gone? Or will I be okay if I sit more to the center of the
car?
1a) If the springs are indeed more likely to break, is there
something I can do? Bricks under the seat or something?
2) Would I be able to swap passenger with driver seat bottom?
3) Can I fix / replace an individual spring? I've seen a picture of
the seat bottom, but haven't ever had one in hand, so it's hard to
tell if there's a connection point somewhere. I don't have a welder
yet.
4) Will I be able to remove the seat without access to the back? Or
do I need to convince it to slide so I can unbolt the back somewhere?
Thanks in advance for any answers or pointers!
-Tim
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