Seat adjustment woes...

adrenalnjunky · Post by **adrenalnjunky** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:53 pm

Ok--another little issue crept up this week -- Was out with the wife, and decided that I had had too much Guinness, so I handed the keys to her.

I don't ride in my passenger seat all that much, so I go to recline the seat a few clicks, and when I pull on the lever, the thing comes off in my hand

The whole end of whatever rod it attaches to twisted right off with it.

This happen to anyone else??? How do you fix it???

Post by **HenryJ** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:04 pm

Hasn't happened to a crew cab here yet I don't think, but here is the fix- GM seat fix , or Replacement Seat Recliner Lever , or the next option is to buy a new lever and upgraded recliner assembly from GMpartsdirect -

part# 89039091 (recliner) and part # 89039093 (new style handle)

adrenalnjunky · Post by **adrenalnjunky** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:46 pm

my driver's side failed at about 18,000 miles too--I wondered why the service manager didn't think twice about replacing it, and why they happened to have that part in stock. Seemed like a specialty item to me.

I'll just get the cheaper of the 2 aftermarket kits I guess.

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:15 am

I had a '92 ranger that would go through them like oil changes. I think I replaced it five or six times in the 3 years I had the truck. Funney thing is you don't realize how important the back of the seat is until you try driving without it.

There's really nothing to the replacement and I'd recommend going ahead with replacing the whole recliner assembly rather than just repare the lever.

KCustom · Post by **KCustom** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:20 pm

My friends Jimmy did the same thing at about 30K miles on the drivers side...

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:57 pm

The sad thing is that this problem dates back before my 97'ZR2 that had the driver's side do the same thing! Everyone on the repair side knows it is a design defect and GM still cranks out the faulty design with no recall. I love my S-10s but, one of these days someone will get hurt due to adjusting while driving and some ambulance chaser will cause all our costs to go up thru a civil suit.

coffeedrnkr · Post by **coffeedrnkr** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:08 pm

Ya mine broke too. I almost murdered my friend. Went to walley world and got me some 1.99 vice grips been using them ever since. found the upgraded handle on ebay but didnt want to shell out the 35 bucks, ill do it later.