head rest raise

[shanon]

Hi all,

How does one raise the head rests on stock front seats. I have two converted to office chairs (very comfy!) and cant figure out how to release the head rests to raise them up a schosh.

A release button somewhere?

TIA!

 

[decoupe]

Office furniture? Can you post a photo of them?

 

[deQuincey]

no release button
use your favourite penetrant oil in spray
let it make some derust and deblock diring a fotnight
and then pull it up and down clamly and strongly

 

[shanon]

Ahhh! thx DQ.

E9 office/studio/man-cave chairs

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii303/shanonE9/CAM02292_zps9df08183.jpg

They go nicely with my V8 coffee table ;-)

 

[decampos]

They look great.

My headrests would not budge. It was as though they were welded in. After soaking with penetrating fluid (as deQuincey said, leaving for a fortnight), I had some luck with careful use of scissor jack wedged between the seat and headrest.

 

[decoupe]

Those are great! I need to figure out how I want to use the rear seats I have left over.

Doug

 

[jmackro]

shanon:

Your's may not be jammed - it might just take more force to raise them than the weight of the chairs. Try pulling them up with someone sitting in the chair.

 

[Nicad]

Those are great! I need to figure out how I want to use the rear seats I have left over.

Doug

Buy a Corvair….they fit

 

[Nicad]

shanon:

Your's may not be jammed - it might just take more force to raise them than the weight of the chairs. Try pulling them up with someone sitting in the chair.

I can see punching your own lights out doing this

 

[bill]

The headrests get stuck solid with, you would be surprised, a very small amount of corrosion. I used penetrating oil and let them sit for at least two weeks. I actually took the seat-back apart (I was re-upholstering anyway) so I could get at the frame: standing on the bottom cross-member and pulling on the headrests wouldn't budge them. Eventually I cut the headrest frame in half and had to twist each side to break the corrosion. Both seats got the treatment. Hopefully yours aren't as stuck.

 

[Stevehose]

Way cool!

Ahhh! thx DQ.

E9 office/studio/man-cave chairs

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii303/shanonE9/CAM02292_zps9df08183.jpg

They go nicely with my V8 coffee table ;-)

 

[rsporsche]

Way cool!

a big +1