R32 Removing Rear Seat W/out Damaging Retainers Or Seat

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Les Lothringer's Approach to Removing Rear Seat in R32 GTR & GTSt, without damaging Retainer or Seat.

May be applicable to similar Skyline models.

- Duration: One minute one person to remove.

- Difficulty Level: Easy once you know.

- Special Tools: Bent Flatblade Screwdriver to release the Seat Retainers - 2 of.

- Other Tools: Large pliers, gas flame, possibly hammer & anvil. Background music of your choice.

- Parts: None.

- What Can Go Wrong: Hard to go wrong but you never know. Using a short crowbar to lever up the seat will damage the retainer and the seat; may possibly bend the floorpan.

- Reference: None used.

- Note Disclaimer below.

Approach:

1. To make a Right Angled Screwdriver Head, take one Flatblade Screwdriver, 5 mm wide blade, heat over gas flame to red heat, use pliers or hammer & anvil to bend 90 degrees, 15 mm from centreline of screwdriver. Quench in cold water - see Pix #1.

2. Refer Pix #1.1, #2 & #3. To release Seat Hook, place screwdriver between the Seat Hook, inside Retainer. Lift screwdriver handle to open up Seat Retainer while lifting seat. Perform both sides to remove bottom seat.

3. Removal of rear seat back is self-evident.

4. Fitment is by sliding seat Hooks into Retainers.

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- Les Lothringer's Disclaimer [short Form]: This describes my approach. If you choose to follow it and make a mistake, remember - at all times, it really is your fault, your risk and your cost. If you choose to follow it and get a different outcome, that's because you need to know more than what is described here. If you choose to follow it and something subsequently and in the rich fullness of time goes awry, you bear the consequences, deservedly or otherwise but probably deservedly. Recognize that your car may have been worked on by a previous owner who knew less than you do [scarey!!], who may not have applied good workshop practice or whom may have been a qualified workshop technician operating to unrealistic "industry standard job time" pressures and so took yet to be revealed shortcuts with unfortunate or even dire consequences or perhaps prepared the car for sale under instructions from a previous owner to "keep it cheap mate". If you lack the confidence, ability, manual dexterity, clear eyesight, intelligence, mental clarity, patience, emotional stability, knowledge, focus, correct tools, time and a firm, level under-cover location free of rain, flood, high winds, blizzards, sand storms, ground instabilities, ionizing radiation, blood sucking insects, inadequate lighting, excessive noise, distractions of any kind, subterranean volcanic activity, very low flying aircraft, terrorist actions, foreign invasion, etc etc etc, or otherwise believe in the power of prayer to keep you from screwing up in the performance of these tasks or even worse, possess a wife [or wives] or partner [or partners] pestering you to complete the work in what seems to her [them] to be more than a very reasonable affluxion of time, engage someone who does not. No responsibility accepted for srorre, omissions, misguided and unjustified assertions. Every car can be different. Your car may have design defects courtesy of the manufacturer [probably does] or aftermarket manufactured parts applied [quite possibly and made to another engineer's standards or maybe a committee of engineers with the usual interference from cost accountants (I did cost accounting)] or outstanding campaigns issued against it, as yet unapplied or applied incorrectly or components designed / manufactured under no intention of being serviceable [built-in obsolescence].