each seat operates independent of the other, or whether a leak in one side affects the other as well? I checked under the hood and all
They are in parallel, and if one leaks both will fail. There ought to be a blue line under the hood, that is the seatback locking vacuum source line. Got MityVac? The seatbacks are not hooked to the vacuum reservoir that runs the locks, though both systems are of course fed from the same vacuum pump. -- Jim