I pulled the passenger seat so that I could clean the tracks and put a new side (height) adjustment handle on. Unfortunately the U-Pull seat I bought didn't have a height adjuster for the passenger, and I find when I look closely that the fore/aft adjuster handle that I had planned to graft in its place is different. Bent, vs straight. I had been going to cut the handle off the front and weld it to the side, but that bend in the plastic is a problem. Well, if you're going to weld do it right! I went to my scrap bucket and found a length of 3/8 rod. Was chromed, and I think had been part of a tool that I found somewhere, but it was all rusty. I used the torch to bend it into a triangular shape about the same size as the missing handle. I then broke off what remained of the plastic handle and welded the triangle to the end of the metal lever. A coat of rattle-can black and the thing even looks almost like it ought to. The tracks are getting solvent-tanked, and then will get greased.
I love the smell of acetylene in the morning! -- Jim
