Originally posted by MikeW

Interesting. Aren't there two different types of mechanisms? I thought the mechanism with the big fat knob that you twist was from the earlier cars yet that diagram shows it as up to July of 1973. Mine are the kind that have a small lever on the side of the seat bottom. According to the production changes list over at zhome.com these flip-forward seats were introduced around 10/71 (although mine are 9/71).

Hi Mike:

The label with shows "Up to July 73" is just the section of the microfiche in which BOTH types of seat are shown.

Carl

The red arrows are pointing to the seat slider bars. That is correct on all my Z's as shown in your diagram. I'm speaking of the the recliner lever on the seat bottom nearest the door.

Vicky

Thx for the pic, my drivers seat has the recline lever and the slider lever on the right, in the pic the slider lever is in the rightand i think the recline lever is on the right to, mine dosent have knob...o and the seat below the recline lever has like a type of white lever (like if it supposed to be used form behind??) and my passenger side dosent have the white small lever ht i cent find the used because th lever i stuck o something that i cant use it (i been putting wd40 all night). they both look original

ill try to get a pic soon to show it better

Originally posted by Zrush

Carl

The red arrows are pointing to the seat slider bars. That is correct on all my Z's as shown in your diagram. I'm speaking of the the recliner lever on the seat bottom nearest the door.

Vicky

:stupid: :stupid: $hit! I see what you mean now. I was thinking "retract" rather than "recline". As sblake01 would say, "My bad!"

I agree, for RECLINE on Type Two seats, the lever should be on the outside (near door). But for RECLINE on the Type 1 seats the knob would be on the inside.