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E-Type seats - need some advice

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I hate to admit this but I am having trouble removing the seats from an E-Type. It has been well over thirty five years since I had to do this and I KNOW that it is a pretty straight forward effort but, well, I come to you guys on bended knee. I can overhaul a Jag cylinder head in my sleep but this stupid thing is embarrassing.

1967 Roadster that underwent a bazillion dollar rehab in the mid and late nineties but has been driven almost no miles since then.

The re-habber redid the interior and in doing so screwed up two things. The seat cushions are too tall and you have to have x-ray vision to see through the w/s header and there are some screws protruding from the bottom of the cushions that are really messing up the flooring material. I need to get the seats out to deal with both of them.

What in the heck am I missing?

Jack
 
From what I see in the books and have done in the past, is lift front of seat pad and pull forward. Bolts are then exposed to get seats out. If you need frames out move them forward and to the rear and get the bolts out that go thru the floor. I always found that I looked at the header when driving any of the top down cars. I can only see straight out in coupes and 2+2s. Your rehabber might have screwed the seats to the frame instead of inserting them. Most trim shops that are not Jag friendly would not know that.
 
Tried the "slide the seat" routine to expose fasteners but none are there. Weird! Weird! Weird! I'll go look again though.

Jack
 
with some slides, you have to hold the adjustor lever open while you slide them all the way off or they get stuck at the adjustment stop, with my slides the bottom part had bolts welded and the only way out was underneath to undo nuts :frown:
 
Got it! Thanks!

FWIW I didn't remember about the FRONT posts. The rear fasteners were obviously there but I couldn't see the front ones. I suppose that is because they aren't there. :smile:

If you remove the REAR 7/16" fasteners the rear of the cushion will lift up and you can slide the rails off of the front posts. There are no fasteners for the rails at the front. Instead the rail fits over a sort of mushroom shaped pedestal and can easily be slid off toward the back.

Sorry for wasting everyone's time, but now I will remember for another thirty years of "then end" which ever comes first. LOL

Jack
 
Glad you got it. Hard to remember exactly how they are. Especially when after years of different owners and repair shops they sometimes are altered. Hope the rest is easy.
 
Each seat is bolted down with two screws in the rear. Slide the seat fully forward. Remove the two screws now exposed at the rear of the slides. Once these are removed, the seat and slides together move back about an inch and that loosens the two front lock tabs. Then lift out the seat.

They started this in '65 through the V12's.

Phil.
 
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