Seat lever fix

On my Cab Plus 1988, passenger bucket seat lever to slide seat forward just snapped off, see photo and scroll to the right (plastic cover is removed for clarity).

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OK, fixed it. I used a 2-inch flat coner brace from Home Depot.
Here's the part that broke off; I did bend it a tad over the years as my kids kicked it in, so that likely accelerated its breakage.

Here I'm holding the corner brace over the remaining seat lever part.

I ground down the one "arm" a little to fit into the gray plastic handle, and tapped it in.

I drilled two 1/8 inch holes in the remaining part of the lever, to align with the two holes in the corner brace (I slid a piece of wood in behind the broken lever to protect the seat from the drill bit). Then I sanded the corner brace a little and spray-painted it black.

Holding up against the broken part

I slid the gray cover on before installing the rivets because I already had the gray plastic handle tapped on. Photo with the two 1/8 inch steel rivets in place but not squeezed tight yet.

Photo after installing the rivets

I painted the rivet heads, and here's the final result.


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Later, I added a second L-bracket, the single L-bracket was bending occasionally, and needed to be reinforced. So now there's two L-brackets riveted to that part of the seat bracket instead of one. It looks almost exactly the same.

Earl says we have to upload pictures: