Well, I've got a FEW mod projects going here all at once. My kitchen table is littered with car parts as I try to get a bunch of upgrades done to the car while my wife is away with her family... trying to make some Christmas Presents for her.
One of them is a headrest mod... It may also morph into a passenger side lumbar support mod, we'll see if it goes that far though.
First thing to do is to remove the headrests...
Yes, I see that I have something on the back to clean off, I think it is actually salt/dust transfered there by my 6 year old...
To do this, I found it easiest to sit in the back seat and look at the headrest...
Lift it to full height, where it won't go any higher, and then look for the two little holes in the sides of the small plastic pedistals that surround the head rest posts...
Here is a close up:
With the holes located, I un-twisted a small 'heart shaped' paper clip my wife had laying around... I knew it was a very hard/stiff wire, much stiffer than your run of the mill office paper clip.
When inserting the wire, you've got to hold it steady so it doesn't slip off downward at an angle. It takes some considerable force, but you can eventually push in with one hand, and lift just that side with the other hand... go to the other post and do that one too.
Here is a shot down the post hole after removing the post. you can clearly see the metal lock covering the left side of the hole, this catches the bottom detent in the rod.
And here it is, with the clip inserted and pushing the lock out of the way... the other rod has the same mechanism.
Yea, I also see the crap here in this shot, I don't know what that is... I obviously need to vac and detail the car...
I've got both head rests removed now... They are a little small, I'm installing bigger head rests...
Here is a preview shot of the next step in my little mod fest...
I've unhooked the J strip at the bottom of the seat back...
On a side note, what have people done to repair the rear seat location floor vents? In this recent cold snap, I reached into the back seat with my right hand, and barely clipped the fins with my thumb... snapped one of the bars right out of the vent... been trying to think of a way to replace those with a different design.
It was at this point I thought I'd investigate the possibility of adding the factory driver's side lumbar to the passenger seat... we'll see... I've got a spare driver's seat with lumbar that I may try to swap into this seat frame. But that's another project!
One of them is a headrest mod... It may also morph into a passenger side lumbar support mod, we'll see if it goes that far though.
First thing to do is to remove the headrests...
Yes, I see that I have something on the back to clean off, I think it is actually salt/dust transfered there by my 6 year old...
To do this, I found it easiest to sit in the back seat and look at the headrest...
Lift it to full height, where it won't go any higher, and then look for the two little holes in the sides of the small plastic pedistals that surround the head rest posts...
Here is a close up:
With the holes located, I un-twisted a small 'heart shaped' paper clip my wife had laying around... I knew it was a very hard/stiff wire, much stiffer than your run of the mill office paper clip.
When inserting the wire, you've got to hold it steady so it doesn't slip off downward at an angle. It takes some considerable force, but you can eventually push in with one hand, and lift just that side with the other hand... go to the other post and do that one too.
Here is a shot down the post hole after removing the post. you can clearly see the metal lock covering the left side of the hole, this catches the bottom detent in the rod.
And here it is, with the clip inserted and pushing the lock out of the way... the other rod has the same mechanism.
Yea, I also see the crap here in this shot, I don't know what that is... I obviously need to vac and detail the car...
I've got both head rests removed now... They are a little small, I'm installing bigger head rests...
Here is a preview shot of the next step in my little mod fest...
I've unhooked the J strip at the bottom of the seat back...
On a side note, what have people done to repair the rear seat location floor vents? In this recent cold snap, I reached into the back seat with my right hand, and barely clipped the fins with my thumb... snapped one of the bars right out of the vent... been trying to think of a way to replace those with a different design.
It was at this point I thought I'd investigate the possibility of adding the factory driver's side lumbar to the passenger seat... we'll see... I've got a spare driver's seat with lumbar that I may try to swap into this seat frame. But that's another project!