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RipleyTheDelica
Joined: 17 Apr 2019 Posts: 10 Location: Worcester
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 20:31 Post subject: Rotating Captains Chairs |
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Hi everyone, I am a complete newbie having just recently purchased a 2006 L400. There are two captains chairs in the middle but I can’t get them to swivel, I can see the lever and have tried this on both seats but no rotation. There are instruction stickers for the seats on the door panel and I can see the reference to the swivel lever, am I missing something really obvious here? They slide, fold up etc fine, it’s just the swivelling I can’t figure out! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!
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Lewis Site Admin
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 16291 Location: Huddersfield
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 21:19 Post subject: |
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Below the back end of the fabric area of the seat, on top of the plastic side cover, is a forward facing lever; Just above the one used for horizontal (sliding) adjustment. That has to be lifted and held up to allow rotation.
I have know some seats requiring the seat base to be folded up to allow them to swivel.
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RipleyTheDelica
Joined: 17 Apr 2019 Posts: 10 Location: Worcester
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 19:43 Post subject: |
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Thanks Lewis, I have tried holding the lever up and also folding the seat and trying but still no luck. Today I lifted the plastic covering to see the mechanism, the cable is still connected and I can see the springs lifting the catch when I move the lever up but it’s still not swivelling, this is the same on both captains chairs, very annoying! |
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Green Grouch Lifetime member
Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 1264 Location: Dorset
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 21:39 Post subject: |
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I've fiddled and adapted a few of these seats now and believe it may be something to do with the position on the rail that the seat is, while you are trying to rotate them ??
Also the numbers 2006 ? sounds like a new Deli ! and may have some new features which are meant to be something to do with safety ??
Like a few on the forum, I've converted these seats to actually be the drivers and passengers seats and I ended up removing a small c clip type attachment which runs in the outer rail to allow them to turn where I wanted them to .
Saying that - I also removed the outer rail...
try again with the seats in different positions on the rail and hopefully something will work. _________________ A Little Knowledge is Dangerous and expensive! especially if your me Mending anything!! |
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RipleyTheDelica
Joined: 17 Apr 2019 Posts: 10 Location: Worcester
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 21:51 Post subject: |
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Thanks for your help, yes it’s a 2006 model so maybe something to do with safety, I’ll try them on each position on the rail and see if that works! |
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Lewis Site Admin
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 16291 Location: Huddersfield
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 21:54 Post subject: |
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2006 date is irrelevant. The internals of the Series 1 and Series 2 are the same. The facelift was was confined to external front end panel cosmetics and some engine and fuel injector pump upgrades. _________________
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Green Grouch Lifetime member
Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Posts: 1264 Location: Dorset
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 22:22 Post subject: |
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Agreed,
However my old 1996 had a couple of tubes, welded through the box section supporting the floor,, done in production, midway along the vehicle which were just right to locate a bracket to support the handbrake cables when I moved the handbrake to accommodate my last front captains seat mod.
My 2002, does not have this facility, so had to drill some holes myself to do the mod on the 2002.,
I would and may put the pictures up soon, but last time i did, the posts disappeared, so the urge to do again is lost.
I'll get on it, when time allows. _________________ A Little Knowledge is Dangerous and expensive! especially if your me Mending anything!! |
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Lewis Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 22:31 Post subject: |
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Interesting info about the tubes. I have a 1999 Series 1 but it doesn't have the tubes in it.
I look forward to seeing the photos. I take it the last lot were on photobucket. _________________
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Green Grouch Lifetime member
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 22:44 Post subject: |
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I'll stick the new one
on soon.
Ref missing post,
It was using photo bucket, which was painful enough using for me, but the complete post disappeared., hence my bad attitude _________________ A Little Knowledge is Dangerous and expensive! especially if your me Mending anything!! |
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Lewis Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 22:53 Post subject: |
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Yeah I had some dissapear a while back, about 340 of them, which I think is down to an issue when servers are changed, as newer BB versions come out.
Unfortunately some of them had photos on that I uploaded to P'bucket and didn't backup, so I lost them when P'bucket changed its modus operandi. _________________
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