S- Type seat headrest refitting

[prangerman]

I took out the passenger one today - don't ask why - and now I can't get it back in. I seem to remember that when last year, shortly before swearing I would never ever take one out again, I extracted the driver's seat headrest I just spent a happy 45 mins or so fiddling around with it until it finally went back in.

 

This time the passenger headrest absolutely refuses to respond to persuasion,threats and acts of violence. It wouldn't be so bad but I hope to take a friend along to Tuesday's NW Kent meet. He has never been in one before and is looking to buy later this year. I don't want the abiding memory of his first blat to be concussion from the roll bar.

 

Any constructive suggestions on how to get it back where it belongs?

 

Peter

 

In Memoriam DMG

[philwaters]

They are carp 😔

 

You may find that there is a small roller set down about 1" from the top of the seat. The headrest is meant to contact this and it guides it down. These (or at least mine) can fail and then get in the way - needing a poke with a screwdriver to allow re-fitment.

 

My passenger one has failed completely and now the headrest wobbles about and is really annoying - it makes quite a lot of noise. I sorted this by winding a couple of layers of electrical tape to the headrest and rammed it in - but it was then impossible to removed easily - you can't win.

 

Phil Waters

[prangerman]

Well I took out to the garage a full set of screw drivers, a hammer, and various other assorted tools of torture which I conspicously layed on the boot cover in sight of the seat and the haedrest.

 

I had a brief but terse talk with the seat back and fitting, and after one bash with screw driver and hammer on the small roller and several beatings of the headrest into the hole it is meant to sit in, the small roller finally acknowledged who's boss and the headrest in back in place.

 

The headrest now sits in place rattling like a good'un so I have pushed the seat back as far as it will go and raised the headrest to wedge it against the roll bar to stop the annoying rattling vibration. But I think I have made my point. Inanimate objects must realise that life and evolution puts me way ahead of them, although there are a range of household objects and appliances which also have not seemingly accepted the point. The old dismembered hoover which hangs in my garage for vacuuming out the tintop had to learn the lesson the hard way. Viscious unco-operative brute that it was...

 

(I'm feeling better now - really.)

 

Peter

 

In Memoriam DMG

[Whiz-kid]

Well I'm surprised you managed to get it out in the first place!

 

When I took mine out (eventually) I used some copper ease to aid it in and out without it being too slippery.

 

Seems to have done the trick.

 

Adrian

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

Since managing to extract mine, they now flop about far too freely.

 

When I fitted the JJ Draught Reducer, with the head restraint posts threaded through the loops on the lower part, I have had to make some polystyrene spacers to keep the head restraints at the right level above the seat backs to position the mesh where I want it !

 

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