This is the second in a series
of articles about dressing up your F150 with UPR Billet products. The first
article was about under hood billet and the installation was both easy and
straight-forward. This article is about replacing the seat lumbar adjustment
knobs with billet knobs.
At first glance this seems to
be an easy task. However, taking the stock knobs off without damaging them
is not as intuitive as it might seem. The stock knobs are pressed on very
tightly and it’s difficult to get anything behind them to grip them without
scratching or gouging either the knob or the plastic cover behind it. This
article aims to provide a very easy approach to this.
What is needed is something
which is tough enough to pull the knob off and soft enough not to damage
them. Additionally, any hole in the material needs to stretch over the knob
and then be small enough not to slip back off when pulling on the knob. Take
a tube sock and cut a 1.5 inch long hole in it about half way down the length
of the sock. Slip the hole of the sock around the lumbar knob. Pull the
knob off using this. It will require quite a bit of pressure to get the knob
off but it will come off. There aren’t any bolts or screws holding it in
place, just a pressure fit.
Here’s the seat with the knob
removed.
The UPR knobs are not press fit
knobs. They have a small allen head bolt which must be tightened down to
hold the knob in place. I added a little clear silicone to help hold the
knob in place. Silicone has the advantage of filling in the gaps without
actually glueing the parts together which is useful should you need to remove
the knob in the future. Slide the knob into place and tighten down the allen
head bolt.
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