I looked in tech section, does any one know if the cable that connects the lever on the front seat to the latch that releases it to fold forward to allow access the the rear seat is available ? (bi-fold bench seat)

 

It is an EASY repair- First, unzip the bottom of the cover, and remove it. Then, remove the bits of the old cable. Then make yourself a new one using .041" stainless safety wire. Slide the safety wire right through the same conduit the original cable used.You can adjust the tension once it is in place, as I recall... Once in , put the cover back on. Takes about half an hour or less... And a lot easier and less costly than trying to look up an original! All you are doing is direct connecting the handle to the little catch... I had to do it on my old seat a while back.(Later I transplanted the twin buckets with the floor console)

Scott

 

there is no ?zipper? looks to be more like a mulling strip, narrow strip that joins the front and back bottom edges together, worried that if it breaks coming off then i will need that also, even if i can just find something close to the factory ends that are crimp-able to cable , the sharp edges of the lever are going to cut a cable

 

There is a zipper for that cover- at least there was on mine: just gotta find the tab... As to where it passes through the lift & latch, I think I used a piece of plastic vacuum tubing slipped over the wire. As to "crimping", all you need to do is three or four twists or wraps of the wire around itself... It does not even have to be tight. All it does is lift the latch a little. Just make sure it is long enough to allow the latch to drop back in place properly, and short enough it lifts enough to allow the seat to move!

Scott

 

Later ones had the plastic strip instead of a zipper - or maybe it was the seats with 1-piece backrests, not sure. The '95 XL I had apart recently had the plastic strips sewn to the cover, and the snap-over U-channel holding them together - this one slipped apart just fine, I suppose it could break, but this one didn't.....

And yeah, a replacement wire is what I used - I slipped a little piece of copper tubing over it, through the holes, and tried to crimp it down, but ended up with twists to hold it. It appears to work fine - I also tried to make a bushing out of tubing to armor it in the hole, but it didn't really work - but like was said, not much tension on it, I think it'll hold up for quite a while as-is.