RE: Jetta Gli Recaro seats - 1" drop

["Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@gte.net>]

Thanks for the How-to! There's a set for sale near me, and I was thinking
about getting them, but was worried that they'd be too high. Now I just
might have to go get them!

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Richard and Michelle
> Pizzulo
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 2:59 PM
> To: Chris DeLong; Rich Deede; scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> Subject: Jetta Gli Recaro seats - 1" drop
>
>
> Well, after a about an hour of staring at the underside of my
> Recaro seats I
> finally figured out a way to get about another inch or inch and a quarter
> lower in the back.  For those interested please continue to read,
> and I will
> attempt to describe how.
>
> As we all know, the Recaro seats that many of us have tend to
> ride a little
> high.  From what i see other than switching the brackets on the
> bottom (must
> have donor seats) or cutting the base and welding shorter there
> is one option
> left available.  If you look at the worm gear that spins to raise
> and lower
> the seats you will see about 6 washers and 2 thick nuts with hex
> nuts to hold
> them in place.  By moving some of these washers you can get a little more
> downward movement on the height adjustment.
>
> 1st get the seat out of the car, and flip over on a towel or something in
> front of the car.  Then take a wire about 10 feet long and
> connect it to your
> pos and neg battery terminals.  Connect the other end to the
> power harness of
> the motor on the seat (use spade clips).  Take hex keys and
> remove the 3 bolts
> holding the motor to the seat frame, as well as the hex nuts
> holding the fat
> nuts (thats funny huh?).  Take the nut farthest out on the worm gear off.
> Hold the electrical switch and work the worm gear out (you may
> have to move
> the other fat nut up a little to keep it from binding).  After you get the
> worm gear all the way out of the box,  slide the motor off the
> splines at the
> end of the bar and work the bar downward.  Remove the fat nut and
> the three
> thin washers above the L bracket and leave the ones below (closer to the
> motor).  You will see that one of the thin washers you removed is
> a bearing.
> Place it on top of the other three washers and then put one of
> the other thin
> washers that you removed on top of that.  Insert worm pole/gear
> back into L
> bracket and thread into box.  Place the motor back on the spline
> and work gear
> back in.  Replace hex bolts holding motor to frame.  Now turn the
> seat over
> and sit in it while holding the button to lower the seat down.
> Once all the
> way down disconnect spade clips, flip seat back over and thread
> one of those
> fat nuts back on and all the way down on the box.  Put the seat
> back in the
> car and compare it to the one sitting next to it.  There should
> be about a 1"
> in drop in the rear.  It's a lot of work, but seems to have made some
> difference.  Total time about 1 hour for the first one and 30 min for the
> second one.
>
> This was actually an easy process, and all the parts are still
> usable if you
> ever wanted to put it back togetehr.  Please feel free to ask any
> questions as
> I am sure these might have been some unclear instructions.  Man I
> could really
> use a smaller steering wheel - anybody got one?  I think I will eventually
> have to cut these brackets and set the seat all the way down on
> the floor of
> the car cause the steering wheel drags my knees, and I'm pretty
> damn short!.
>
> -=Rick
> 84' 8V Wolfs
> Mobile, AL
>
>
>
>
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