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Seat lever fix

Last Updated: Feb 24, 2015
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On my Cab Plus 1988, passenger bucket seat lever to slide seat forward just snapped off, see photo and scroll to the right (plastic cover is removed for clarity).

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OK, fixed it. I used a 2-inch flat coner brace from Home Depot.
Here's the part that broke off; I did bend it a tad over the years as my kids kicked it in, so that likely accelerated its breakage.

Here I'm holding the corner brace over the remaining seat lever part.

I ground down the one "arm" a little to fit into the gray plastic handle, and tapped it in.

I drilled two 1/8 inch holes in the remaining part of the lever, to align with the two holes in the corner brace (I slid a piece of wood in behind the broken lever to protect the seat from the drill bit). Then I sanded the corner brace a little and spray-painted it black.

Holding up against the broken part

I slid the gray cover on before installing the rivets because I already had the gray plastic handle tapped on. Photo with the two 1/8 inch steel rivets in place but not squeezed tight yet.

Photo after installing the rivets

I painted the rivet heads, and here's the final result.


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Later, I added a second L-bracket, the single L-bracket was bending occasionally, and needed to be reinforced. So now there's two L-brackets riveted to that part of the seat bracket instead of one. It looks almost exactly the same.

Earl says we have to upload pictures:

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Created By: Cusser