mclarida
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How do you remove the head rest from the seat back on a SHO. I am putting on seat covers and it needs to be removed to put the cover on. Thanks-
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T.O_SHO
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I dont think they came stock with rear headrests....IIRC The way to put them in is to slightly pull the backrest out a little bit and they should slide in/out...
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Misunderstood your post, sorry...
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Misunderstood your post, sorry...
Yamaha V6
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There is a retainer clip buried in there.
mclarida
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I meant to say the front headrest..they are a real pain to ty to get out-M
excidere
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Since you are replacing the cover anyways, cut a slit on the backside of the seat just below the plastic covers that the headrest legs go into, then you should be able to see the foam and the bottom side of the leg slides and the headrest legs, from their youshould beable to access the retainer clips. you will also have to remove the plastic pieces from the old cover to glue them to the new one...
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Ok, are you saying that the headrest are a oneway installation and you can't remove them without cutting into the cover? I just took a junk seat apart to see how these things work. One side had a oneway plastic barbed clip on the bottom of the tube the rods run through. Does this clip not release without destroying it or can is there a magic combination to get the headrest out? I want to figure out how to take it off with cutting so I can somehow pull the seat leather up and off to put on driver side seat that has the bolster wearing out. Can this be done?
Ok, are you saying that the headrest are a oneway installation and you can't remove them without cutting into the cover? I just took a junk seat apart to see how these things work. One side had a oneway plastic barbed clip on the bottom of the tube the rods run through. Does this clip not release without destroying it or can is there a magic combination to get the headrest out? I want to figure out how to take it off with cutting so I can somehow pull the seat leather up and off to put on driver side seat that has the bolster wearing out. Can this be done?
smokin joe
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I have done it with mine without hurting the covers. Put the head rest all the way up, unscrew the black plastic covers the headrest legs go through, then carefully pull the seat cover down and away just enough to get at the clips with a screw driver to push them out. The clips can be reinstalled with new head rest.
smokin joe is correct, but be aware that since the plastic clips are now some 15 years old, they have an irritating tendency to break rather than bend enough to allow you to pull the headrest out. So, I'm saying be careful and don't do this in your driveway when its 40 degrees out - make sure everything is warm.
ummm is it still 2005?
smokin joe
SHO Member
Haha never even looked at that! Well now they know 
Perfect, has anyone ever pull the driver seat cover off and replace it with another cover from the passenger side? Goal, is to replace a worn out driver bolster with a better one. If so, do you need to reach up inside the seat and undo the keeper wires that hold the air sack inplace? Or?
smokin joe
SHO Member
Yeah I remember you have to reach up and undo/cut some wire that holds it in place, if you use a passenger cover on the drivers side you will have to cut out for the seat controls and on the inside by the center console you will have a cut up spot from where it was cut for the passenger controls to be mounted. Wait unless your just using the top part...
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I don't think we are on the same page. The leather back for both driver and passenger seem to be the same. If you take the seat back apart from the bottom seat with the 3 bolts, you can unzip the cover and it appears with some manuvering you can get inside the seat and unhook the 6 wire retainers on the air sack. If you don't release these it appears you cannot pull off the cover. The only way to get the cover off is to get the headrest off. This is why was looking for the solution to get them off without destroying the clips. I have dissected a donor seat to see all this but I want to do this without cutting anything. Once I opened it up you could see that the cover was attached to the material that is connected to the lumbar air sack. There is a 10 " wire on both sides running through a channel that holds them together. The only problem is that when they put it in at the factory it goes in but won't come out as there wire catches the top of the channel like a barbed hook. Thus you have somehow disconnect the lumbar air sack from the metal chasis as it keeps the whole thing from sliding off. If anyone has done this before chime in.
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What's wrong with discussing information that was posted a few years ago, it's still great information that still applies to the cars we're still driving? The stuff on shotimes and most other write-ups out there are even older than '05.
shocar, for what it's worth, the "fix" for this on shotimes was posted back in 2002, when some of these cars were still under warranty. The person who submitted their experience with these headrests had his dealer fix the problem since he was still under warranty. I doubt your car is warrantied, but I imagine you could still source the part's...
"I complained to my dealer that my passenger headrest was rattling quite a bit when there was nobody in the RF seat. They used 2 each of part numbers FOOY-54610A18-A (retainer) and F2DZ-54610A16-A (sleeve) and now there's no more rattling! And it was all covered under warranty! Everybody who's been cramming paper wads down in there to stop the noise take heart. Sit in a '96 and check the headrests -- Ford installed the cure for them at the factory."
-Squeaks, Rattles, and Noises: http://www.shotimes.com/php-bin/mod...e=article&sid=124&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Thought. Anyone swapped a gen 3 headrest into a gen 2 seat?
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The challenging part is un-doing the hog-rings (C-rings) that are on the wire support frame. You gotta reach up in there and cut or open those hog-rings, while avoiding having your blood leak all over because (for some stupid reason) the edges of the metal seat frame are very sharp!
What I did was to take apart the bad one first, so I could learn how on a cover that I didn't care about, then used what I learned to take the good one off w/o ruining it.
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