Seat Backrest Front - 60 Percent Bench Disassembly / Assembly: Disassembly
WARNING:
- The safety belt pretensioner is a pyrotechnic device. Always wear safety glasses when repairing an air bag equipped vehicle and when handling a safety belt buckle pretensioner or safety belt retractor pretensioner. Never probe a pretensioner electrical connector. Doing so could result in pretensioner or air bag deployment and could result in personal injury.
WARNING:
- To reduce the risk of personal injury, do not use any memory saver devices.
NOTE:
- If a seat equipped with a supplemental restraint system (SRS) component is being serviced, the SRS must be depowered.
NOTE:
- The air bag warning lamp illuminates when the restraint control module (RCM) fuse is removed and the ignition switch is ON. This is normal operation and does not indicate a SRS fault.
NOTE:
- The SRS must be fully operational and free of faults before releasing the vehicle to the customer.
- Depower the SRS. See DEPOWERING AND REPOWERING .
- Remove the affected seat. See SEAT FRONT REMOVAL / INSTALLATION
- Remove the 60 percent armrest. See SEAT ARMREST FRONT - 60 PERCENT BENCH REMOVAL / INSTALLATION
- Remove the 60 percent seat backrest assembly. See SEAT BACKREST FRONT - 60 PERCENT BENCH REMOVAL / INSTALLATION
- Release the backrest J-clip.
CAUTION:
- Use care when separating the seat back trim cover from the hook and loop strips or the hook and loop strips may be torn from the seat back foam.
- Invert the backrest material and release the hook and loop strips.
- Remove all the hog rings and remove the backrest trim cover from the backrest foam pad.
- Lift the lower end of the backrest foam pad off the backrest frame.
- Slide the backrest frame down and out of the backrest foam pad headrest pocket.