[blueridge57]

I am a newbie and I needed to remove the rear seat in my 69. Did a search and the consensus was you have to muscle it out.. Well Im old and weak so I gave up fairly quickly. I wrapped two pcs of 2x4 in towels and placed one against the rear seat and the other again the front seat and placed a scissors jack between the two. Expanded the jack slowly until i could the seat up off the attachment. Repeated on the other side and the seat was out.

 

[KevinW]

I have used the scissor jack trick successfully too!

 

[ChuckD]

Science triumphs again!

 

[DOUG G]

Brains over brawn 🍺 🍺 🍺

 

[MD69]

Genius! Wish I’d seen this earlier. Here’s another simple method. Use a nail puller (a little different than a crow bar), turn it as shown in the second picture with the “teeth” into the carpet by the seat hook. Pull up on the handle to push the seat backwards and pull the seat up. One side of the seat came out with a mallet, but the other side was stubborn.

 

[rogerh]

Just to be clear what the front, rear seat attachments look like, here is a picture. The seat needs to be pushed back and then lifted up and toward the front and out.

 

[SoCal805]

good hack OP. It can take quite the knee kick against rear seat to move it back enough to release from hold down.

 

[68Nickey]

It’s tricky , it’s tricky ,tricky , tricky ..
DJ RUN DMC …. 😂😂😂

 

[fairfax1000]

Revenge engineer nerds.

 

[Vega$69]

Piece of cake. Push with your knee and lift. Jesus. I’m 72 and can do it. No prob.

 

[57vette]

Not to hijack the thread, but for the guys who have done it numerous times, is there a trick to getting the rear seat back to "latch" on the package shelf clips and sliding the two "fingers" at the bottom of the seat back into the slots? LOL... I can get one side fine but I think I need someone on the other side pushing back maybe? The rear seat bottom isn't too bad if you use your knees and brace your foot against the base of the front seat.

 

[fairfax1000]

Piece of cake. Push with your knee and lift. Jesus. I’m 72 and can do it. No prob.

Easy there fruitcake, that guy isn’t here anymore and let’s keep it that way.

A video demonstration of you performing this or pictures of each step would be extremely beneficial for those of us who struggle with this.

 

[Randy Mitton]

Work smarter not harder lol

 

[rogerh]

Easy there fruitcake, that guy isn’t here anymore and let’s keep it that way.

A video demonstration of you performing this or pictures of each step would be extremely beneficial for those of us who struggle with this.

That is a very good idea. A video from the people that have this problem figured out, would be invaluable. This is a video on using a hammer (which I don’t recommend) to get the bottom seat loose and removed.

Deleted the video because no one believes the mallet is the way to go.

 

[Vega$69]

Do not use a hammer. Put the front seats forward and put your leg in the rear footwell and push where the dude hammered and lift. Sometime just pushing with the palm of you had works.

Anouther way that works well is to place a bottle jack sideways between the rear of the front seat and the lower rear seat frame. With rags to protect the seats on both ends of the jack. Slow extend the jack and lift the seat out of the retention bracket. I use a hockey puck on the small end of the bottle jack against the rear seat frame.

 

[3d cad]

I love the scissor jack solution.

 

[fairfax1000]

Do not use a hammer. Put the front seats forward and put your leg in the rear footwell and push where the dude hammered and lift. Sometime just pushing with the palm of you had works.

Anouther way that works well is to place a bottle jack sideways between the rear of the front seat and the lower rear seat frame. With rags to protect the seats on both ends of the jack. Slow extend the jack and lift the seat out of the retention bracket. I use a hockey puck on the small end of the bottle jack against the rear seat frame.

Now were using bottle jacks and hockeypucks.

 

[57vette]

Definitely don't use a mallet LOL... unless you don't care if you split the vinyl. The whole thing with the lower clip is to put your knee right where the clip is and sort of arch your foot. It only has to go back an inch or so and at the same time lift with both hands under the frame. With a fresh white interior I like the padding in my knee with my jeans on LOL, but I suppose you could pad up the scissor jack. Still find it easier using the knee because you can do both motions (hands and knee action) at once.

 

[SY1]

Blueridge it takes a little muscle but much easier once you study and understand what you are dealing with nefore attempting this task or it can get frustrating quickly. Since you are new to this take a close look at the hook in this pic. One one each side of car same location each side. The seat frame is made up of round steel wire and the lower foward wire is retained by these 2 latches.

Note the ramp design of catches this is important. Move front seat forward. Sometimes on some first gen Camaros I can do this from outside the car. Usually I have one foot in car, push down hard on the rear seat top front edge right where the vinyl piping is on the seat cover and directly over the location of the seat catch. Compressing the seat while at the same time pushing rearward on the seat piping frame corner until you feel resistance, at that point maintain rearward force (you have the seat in that lower area of catch where it starts rising and going aft) maintaing rearward force slowly start removing all downward force allowing frame wire rod to ride the catch upward, slight help with your spare hand lifting below the seat to help seat rise in the catch. KEEP YOUR HAND AND FINGERS CLEAR OF THE CATCH SO FINGERS DONT GET PINCHED. When you hit that back upper corner of the catch you will know it, at that point keep your spare hands upward force on seat frame bottom so seat doesnt drop back down. At this point you have the seat frame wire rod resting in the top rear 90 degree area of the catch. Maintain some upward force with your hand that is still under seat frame and pull forward on lower seat frame guiding it out of catch. As you clear the latch tilt seat front upward so rear riser in seat clears the seat back and SUCCESS!

It is really pretty simply if you understand it is just a rolling action down, rear, up, forward. But also understanding when to apply what force to make this circular motion needed to "roll" the frame out of the latch. May sound dumb but draw a pic of the latch and tape it to the seat back so you understand actions needed as you are performing the task.

I have seen guys, bent over seat beat on it, cursing and fighting with this task over and over. But once you do it and understand the force and design it becomes really easy. I am old and just had a knee replaced that I can't kneel on for another 9 months. Still pretty confident I could still get the rear seat out without any trouble or help using this procedure. I have never needed tools, but that doesn't mean they don't make it easier, they may. Some 1st gens may be harder than others.

 

[fairfax1000]

Blueridge it takes a little muscle but much easier once you study and understand what you are dealing with nefore attempting this task or it can get frustrating quickly. Since you are new to this take a close look at the hook in this pic. One one each side of car same location each side. The seat frame is made up of round steel wire and the lower foward wire is retained by these 2 latches. View attachment 303835

Note the ramp design of catches this is important. Move front seat forward. Sometimes on some first gen Camaros I can do this from outside the car. Usually I have one foot in car, push down hard on the rear seat top front edge right where the vinyl piping is on the seat cover and directly over the location of the seat catch. Compressing the seat while at the same time pushing rearward on the seat piping frame corner until you feel resistance, at that point maintain rearward force (you have the seat in that lower area of catch where it starts rising and going aft) maintaing rearward force slowly start removing all downward force allowing frame wire rod to ride the catch upward, slight help with your spare hand lifting below the seat to help seat rise in the catch. KEEP YOUR HAND AND FINGERS CLEAR OF THE CATCH SO FINGERS DONT GET PINCHED. When you hit that back upper corner of the catch you will know it, at that point keep your spare hands upward force on seat frame bottom so seat doesnt drop back down. At this point you have the seat frame wire rod resting in the top rear 90 degree area of the catch. Maintain some upward force with your hand that is still under seat frame and pull forward on lower seat frame guiding it out of catch. As you clear the latch tilt seat front upward so rear riser in seat clears the seat back and SUCCESS!

It is really pretty simply if you understand it is just a rolling action down, rear, up, forward. But also understanding when to apply what force to make this circular motion needed to "roll" the frame out of the latch. May sound dumb but draw a pic of the latch and tape it to the seat back so you understand actions needed as you are performing the task.

I have seen guys, bent over seat beat on it, cursing and fighting with this task over and over. But once you do it and understand the force and design it becomes really easy. I am old and just had a knee replaced that I can't kneel on for another 9 months. Still pretty confident I could still get the rear seat out without any trouble or help using this procedure. I have never needed tools, but that doesn't mean they don't make it easier, they may. Some 1st gens may be harder than others.

Waiting for the malletless video presentation.