how2 replace interstate seat

I'm having a hard time getting the seat back on my I/S--the rear guide slides in OK and it locks into the front OK but the middle piece that's supposed to slide under the holder doesn't; it acts like it's on top of the bracket.

I've tried different combinations of bending the seat and putting pressure on it to slide it under the bracket to noavail.

TIA

Jeff,

I am no help to just wanted to say, I am having the same problem. I have had alot of starting problems lately, Which the folks here helped me solve.

I had to take the seat of several times to charge the battery. The first two times it was no problem. Now I cannot seem to get is secured correctly.

JimO' from Valrico

I don't know of a trick to make it easy.  I just press down on the center of the seat with one hand and the back of the seat with the other as I slide the seat into the brackets.  It takes a couple of tries and the correct choice of words.  

As to taking the seat off for charging, why?  I just have a pigtail, with inline fuse.  I use the pigtail for heated clothing and charging with Battery Tender. Take the seat off once to put the pigtail on, and never mess with it again for charging.  Be sure to get polarity right!

Peter

That's exactly the flash of genius I had, and now I have the pigtail in there and use the same connector on the heated clothing I'm making (DIY!!!)  as on the Battery Tender Jr.

but now I can't get the seat to latch.

Plus I'll need to get in there from time to time to futz with stuff, such as the fuse for the battery tender.... unless I relocate that....

thanks

[Jim O'Hara]

Peter,

I ordered the battery tender the other day. You must have been reading my mind!

[ossiningvalkyrie]

Oh boy
I dont remember a fuse on the pigtail
did I mess up?
I dont run anything that draws current, yet

[keith]

hey isn't  the seat a two piece seat so there is no need to remove back part?  i have a two piece mustang seat on my 99 I/S and I to had a hard time putting the back seat on what i found is if you attach the the rear bolt first and then with a long ellen wrench you can go between the front and back seat and tighten the front two bolts last. but after review and looking at the owners manual it is a one piece seat but according to the book there are only three steps. 1.insert prongs into seat stays. 2. push down on front seat. 3 install the strap band and tighten the attaching nuts securely. looks like the the seat should slide back into the prongs and then you should be able to lock down the front and then put straps on. a little diffrent then mine. well hope this helps.

but it's not sliding under the middle prong/bracket... help!!!
:banghead: :banghead::banghead:

['KC']

And I thought that I was the only one who had a problem getting it back on. I found that I had to put pressure on the middle area of the seat to get it under the center mounts, but that's about it.
I have a corbin dual tour saddle for the I/S, and it is especially hard to get the front latch to catch on it. Have fun guys.

I think the pigtail I used was the one from Gerbing's that came with my jacket liner.  I know for sure there's a inline fuse.  Maybe the Battery Tender pigtail doesn't have a fuse - but it's easy enough to put one on, except you have to take the seat off again!

Peter

but I'm not really sure how.....

I struggled with this over several days trying all sorts of techniques. I finally got the shop light on one side so I could see from the other side where the middle prong lines up and figured out where to start from. I had to get up on the LH footpeg and put my knee on the high front area of the pillion, right above the prong, and push down and backwards. After trying this several times it slid into place. I was flabbergasted and immediately went for a ride.

The whole point of this was to install wiring--the pig tail from my Battey Tender Jr.--and run my DIY heated ski bib. BTW it worked; it was mid-30's out (and I thought THAT was against state law for the Hill Country!) and I was toasty except for my feet and my face.

BTW I installed a 15A fuse in the pigtail, under the seat of course. After I got the seat on, the banana clip I have on the business end for attaching the line from the pants, although taped up etc, found some way to ground the positive side. I saw a "hot blue spark" and thought, oh no, here we go again, I get to pull the seat and go through this dance once again... but my trusty multimeter reported 13 plus volts so I dressed up the clip and went for a ride.

A Tulsa shield should help the air flow against the head and some DIY foot shields should help the air flow around the feet. There is a link for the foot shield project at http://www.rattlebars.com/mtz/footfair.html
which I found through the Terminal Valkocity site.

A link for the DIY heated clothing is http://home.mebtel.net/~rbutterfield/Heat.html
and another is
http://www.shadowriders.org/faq/electricvests.html

How about for DIY heated hand grips:
http://maniac.deathstar.org/~flash/hotgrips.html

HTH

Check the polarity on your pigtail before using the charger.  Polarity doesn't matter for heated clothing, but it does for the charger.  I'm not sure but I think you have it reversed.  I think the hot prong is the female, and the ground is the male.  

Again, I'm not sure so check carefully.  

If you're using a Battery Tender brand charger, I think there's built in protection against hooking it up backwards. It just won't charge.

Peter

Peter:
I hooked up the BTJr pigtail red to red and black to black on the battery. It's OK. Then I have another run with the same type connecter on the pigtail end that runs along the frame and terminates in a banana plug so that I can plug in several items of clothing. This is the piece that made the arc. After the close call I taped it up as well as I could and went for a ride.

the BTJr works, I charged the battery on this setup a couple days ago

thanks
again

[ossiningvalkyrie]

do you make housecalls?

Are you looking for an experience pigtail hooker upper? or someone with a strong background in seat replacement?

I'll have to pass because
1. I don't do NY this time of year!
and
2. I'm actually a hack

or maybe you were talking to that gentleman behind me.....

Actually this time of year in the TX hill country, i.e. tonight, we're actually getting some snow. THAT is really mind-boggling.