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To all you guys that answered my call to arms. I just got through with the front seat repair to my 90 245. I was sitting in a hole before.
Heres how it went. As instructed I removed the seat. I even disconnected the heater wire. It actually rolled right out of the front door. I tilted the back toward the passenger seat and pulled the bottom out, no problem. Put the seat on my bench in the shop lowered the back so the seat would lie flat on the bench face down. I found one spring broken. The hook had broken off. I imediately found a coat hanger. Then decided to go the the hardware store with broken spring in hand, to purchase a new spring. Decided against that as I looked at the broken spring. Got two pair of pliers.... now this is where you need to start highlighting if you are going to make this repair yourself, one pair of channel locks and one pair of slip joint 6" pliers, I started to work on that spring. I first bent one of the coils out and away from the rest. Then I bent that coil into a new hook. Then as instructed I bent the ends of the support grid under the seat so the springs would not slide off again. I hooked the springs on one side then I reinstalled the springs of the other side, take note here, with an old distributer wrench where the box end is bent at a ninty degree angle. I put the wrench through the grid and hooked the spring hooks to the box and leveraged the wrench on the seat track and hooked the springs to the other side of the seat support grid. Now here is the critical part, you must get this down just as instructed. A 12" by 12" section of carpet, commercial grade 1/4 inch nap, the color VINYARD, I slid this piece between the support grid and the foam cushion.
Boy is my seat comfortable.
Thanks to all.
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