After 5 1/2 hours working like a snail in this heat and humidity I finally got some things to fit properly. After 2 hours trying to make the fold down rear seat locking latches to work in my 74 Hornet Hatchback annd almost getting them to work properly yesterday I gave the one that was the problem another try. After an hour of tweaking the seat locks and unlocks and folds down like factory new.
Not to make light of ypur problems, but you may be guilty of a warm'n'fuzzy false memory... :-)
To be blunt those !@@#)#$!!! blasted seat latches worked for crap, right from the factory! if you got 'em working great, you're at 200% improvement over the factory!