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I Dont believe it !!!!!

Posted By : Noel Hefford, 18-May-2006, 09:55pm

One of the friction springs in the seat frame has bust. Now the head rest wont stay up without the help of viagra. Pleeeease some one tell me that there is a way to fix this without having to remove the seat covers.

Noel

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I Dont believe it !!!!!

Posted By : Jason Chinn, 18-May-2006, 10:03pm

If it's anything like a Spit seat then it's probably the little metal barb clip in the headrest that's knackered, irreplaceable on it's own, new headrests are available but at &163;70 a pair it's a bit of an investment! It's no big deal to jam a piece fo something in there! Take the head rest out and you'll see what it's like. The headrest is as low tech as they come, there's even a piece of wood in there! I'm going through Spit seat rebuilding at the moment, it isn't that hard, check my Blog for progress. Never had a TR one apart, then again I'd never had a Spit one apart either!
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  Posted By : Noel Hefford, 18-May-2006, 10:39pm
  
  Thanks Jason, but the barb is intact. The problem is a spring steel coil that sits at the base of a square tubular housing welded to the top of the frame inline with the headrest hole. The spring itself is held into the tube with DUCK TAPE. Hi tech? eh what !!!!!!. If you stick your finger down the headrest hole you can feel the spring. In this case two half springs. It forces the post against the side of the square tube. So no spring , no push, no rub, no head rest.
  
  Noel
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    Posted By : Jason Chinn, 18-May-2006, 11:00pm
    
    Duct tape eh? There are only two forces at work in the universe, Duct Tape to make things stop and WD40 to make them go I wouldn't be too shy of taking the covers off - I've done a few seats in my time and I'm always amazed at how easy it can be and how good they end up even using a minimum of new bits!
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      Posted By : Noel Hefford, 18-May-2006, 11:14pm
      
      Oh mate !!! it took me forever to get the damn seams to line up, cheek plates set, and good shape for the fill. You are breaking my heart telling me to take them off again. Particularly for a bleedin spring. please god there has to be another way. Having said that even if i did, ive just been checking, where am i to get another spring from. No Longer Sold keeps popping up. looks like i may have to apply a bit of lateral thinking. I Know. i will follow the Triumph design engineers creedo. DUCT TAPE and hope no one notices.
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        Posted By : Noel Hefford, 18-May-2006, 11:17pm
        
        Does any body know of someone breaking a TR6? please let me know.
        
        Cheers
        
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        Posted By : Jason Chinn, 18-May-2006, 11:54pm
        
        Calm down, you should know by now that if a job's worth doing it's worth doing 3 4 or 5 times before you get it right Duct tape is good stuff though!!
        
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        Posted By : Noel Hefford, 19-May-2006, 00:08am
        
        Found an alternative. I am going to get my 3 year old boy to stuff his fingers down the hole and get the old bits out and a new one in. Failing that i will get the missus to do it. Shes good at extracting money out of my wallet, a spring should not present to much of a problem.
        
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        Posted By : Jason Chinn, 19-May-2006, 07:26am
        
        Trained child labour!! Well done