Sorry, brain fart. I can't remember how I took the headrests off some time ago. I went back to all the head rest threads, I pressed the seat from the back, all the spots where the pins should be, and I still can't get the headrests out. Are the pins stuck in there? Maybe the repositioned themselves after I took the headrests out? Will the only way to remove the headrests now be by drilling out the rivets and removing the back seat covers? Thanks, Richard 1984 Mondial QV, US version.
here is the thread, see #16 from Birdman: http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=136423653#post136423653 Birdman wrote: ...First of all, you have to take the skin off the seat back enough to get inside. The rods on the headrest have detents in them. The last detent is designed in such a way as to prevent the rods from coming out any further, thus securing the headrest to the seat. Inside the seat back, the headrest rods go into a tube-like thing that holds the ball bearing that provides the detent action. If you jam another tube/rod of the right diameter (the same diameter of the headrest rods) inside that tube from the bottom to push the ball back out of the way, you can then pull the headrest out. Not sure if the ball bearing then falls out and vanishes...
Here is what I had found somewhere. Each headrest has two rods with detents and there is a ball inside a tube in the seat that clicks into each detent. Problem is that the last detent on the headrest rods is designed so that the headrest can't be pulled out. From inside the seat, you need to ram a thin-walled tube up inside the tube that has the ball in order to push the ball out of the way. Then you can yank the headrest out. Pretty easy, except for two things. 1. It has to be done from inside the seat, meaning the back has to be removed. (Two rivets need to be drilled and the rigid back of the seat taken off. 2. You need a thin-walled tube that is slightly larger in ID than the rods on the headrest and slightly smaller in OD than the ID of the tube in the seat back. We found a little brass rod at a local hardware store that did the trick. Custom tool: $2.79. Figuring it out: priceless. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
