1994 volvo 850 seatback problem

Below is an addition to a great helper article by bob dietz on
1/2/2005 regarding the

volvo 850 front seat. It works great! The original is the top
article and mine is the bottom part

just explaining the intricacies of the damn right side! Check Bay13
for pix.



An alternative is to heat the ferrule with a butane lighter and pull
it
off the cable housing. Snip the housing back about 3/8". Use a 6mm
deep
socket to drive the ferrule back on the cable housing. The square
drive
should now protrude from the end of the ferrule. Slide the ferrule
back
into the gear drive, swing the latch plate back over the ferrule and
test. It should work as good or better than new. The plastic housing
stretches over time, especially if larger bodied people use the seat.
The
cable routing is quite close to the upholstery padding and gets
stretched
through normal use.

Bob
Thanks immensely! I just bought my 3rd volvo-a 1994 850 turbo, with
both front seats leaning back

and stuck! I used your instructions and it worked perfectly. The
passenger seat was a little

harder since the screws on the gearbox were facing outside to the
right, flush to the plastic liner

inside the leather. I removed the 10mm bolt from the gearbox, by
cutting a square, small hole in

the plastic liner under the leather and inserting a socket. Once the
bolt (and the spring

connecting to the yellow foam rubber back plate on the seat) were
moved I slid the gearbox mechanism

to the left along the square driveshaft connecting both sides of the
seat placement gears and

removed the phillips screws, pulled off the cover (after removing
clamp on driveshaft), removed the

cable, cigarette-lightered it off, cut 7/16 off, reheated and replaced
ferrule. Then it slipped

back inside the gearbox and I tested by applying griplock pliers to
the top end near the ferrule

end, slide gearbox back to the far right, replaced (temporarily) the
10mm bolt and turned on switch!

All worked so I moved box back to left, applied screws, replaced
gearbox to the 10mm bolt on the

right using standoff and made certain the driveshaft was even on both
sides. The shaft will move to

ALMOST completely out to the right but is stopped from coming out by
an indentation in the end. I

reinserted the shaft into the square slot on the left rear side by
jiggling switch a bit to get a

tight fit and then used a few taps from a hammer/chisel on the right
side to secure the shaft. Then

I put the retaining ring back on the left side of the gearbox/shaft,
pulled the seatback back down

and secured underneath by plastic ties. Do be careful! When doing
the driver seat I pulled the

inside gear cable too far out of the rubber cable and had a little
time getting it back into the

motor from which I pulled it. I moved both seats back as far as they
would go and then forward, to

original seating position, by "nudging" switch on seat side a bit at a
time until they came to the

12 o'clock position. Took about 1.5 hours but could redo in 40
minutes. Total cost: $1.00 for

cigarette lighter. Hope it works for you as good as for me.
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