Re: [Amc-list] Jeep Clutch Hydraulics

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

That's probably not a bad idea. I can try and figure out who to report it too.
I figure that the main cause of this one was a large driver before we bought it.
There was a fender washer over the one stud that held the seat bottom to the track.   Obviously installed at some time after the nut pulled thru. 
   The seat bottom fram is a primary tube aroudn the front and sides and a cross tube rear.
The rear tube was broken completely loose and laying in the bottom trapped by the cover.
The U-tube was cracked almost complely loos from the sheet metal bracket going to the track. The right rear bracket for the seat back was held in place by one 1/4" weld.
  Basically the whol think was held together by the bolts of the seat tracks to the floor and bottom brace and the cover! I've seen broken recliner mechanisms in the 60's-70's AMC's, some frame damage.  None of them as bad as this frame!
--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> --- Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>  I
> > had it apart as the seat frame on the bottom was
> > totally fragged! It fell apart when I unbolted it!
> > My wife said she didn't notice anything wrong with
> > it, but one good jolt and she would have been in the
> > back seat ! :]
> > 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Just a suggestion, but don't you think you should
> report this to Chrysler?  Sounds like a safety item to
> me.  In the aviation world there are Service
> Difficulty Reports which are meant for reporting
> safety related issues.  Many times they result in
> airworthiness directives which often have mandatory
> complliance deadlines for affect planes.  Cessna had a
> seat rail problem a few years ago, where the pilots
> seat would break free of the anchors sometimes at very
> inopportune times.  Naturally, the pilot would tend to
> hang on to the control wheel resulting in a steep
> climb and stall.  Several people died in such
> accidents.
> 
> Of course in the auto world these car call recalls.
> 
> Signed.
> Joe Fulton, worry wart.
> Salinas, CA
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