Seat adjust handle bends

[cober]

What to do with this fold handle? I bend it back and this thing bends after couple of times I jump into my vehicle.
Eventually it's gonna break.
What can I do?

 

[tinman_72]

I bent mine back. I always enter and exit the vehicle using the running board to make sure my @$$ goes in first and does not touch the handle. This has worked for me for about 5 years or so.

 

[cober]

it only works for me to enter but on exit I bend this damn thing back

I think maybe weld a metal plate to strengthen it...

 

[wollimann]

To strengthen/weld it with a metal plate you have to drill out two rivets,
the hardest part. Make two inside threads use good bolts.

 

[410Fortune]

Once they break I replace them with a strap

I use black webbing material from an old backpack and make a
Loop. I secure it to the metal hinge with a piece of baling wire … now I can enter and exit the seat without worrying about catching the metal handle

The strap Has worked awesome for many years

 

[Squirrelmaster]

Once they break I replace them with a strap

I use black webbing material from an old backpack and make a
Loop. I secure it to the metal hinge with a piece of baling wire … now I can enter and exit the seat without worrying about catching the metal handle

The strap Has worked awesome for many years

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This is brilliant! I have been trying to figure out how to fabricate a new arms for my '99 to replace the broken ones that would also be strong enough to tolerate my butt sliding over them. I had a design, but fabricating it with the tools at my disposal was going to be an annoying amount of effort. Some webbing straps is a much simpler design!

 

[410Fortune]

My trucks are all lifted so those handles don’t last weeks getting in and out

Necessity leads to invention

 

[J_C]

Once they break I replace them with a strap

I use black webbing material from an old backpack and make a
Loop. I secure it to the metal hinge with a piece of baling wire … now I can enter and exit the seat without worrying about catching the metal handle

The strap Has worked awesome for many years

Dammit! Mine broke, I made a replacement lever out of plate aluminum, but hadn't gotten around to installing it. Your idea is so much better that I'm just going to throw that away and use a strap.

 

[cober]

Once they break I replace them with a strap

I use black webbing material from an old backpack and make a
Loop. I secure it to the metal hinge with a piece of baling wire … now I can enter and exit the seat without worrying about catching the metal handle

The strap Has worked awesome for many years

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Great idea! But it's a pity we can't see actual pictire how you attached this cloth

 

[410Fortune]

It’s pretty simple I sewed the material into a loop with needle and thread (or you maybe able to already find a loop in the fabric maybe even one with a grommet on one end)
And then I poked a hole in it where the heavy stitching is and ran bailing wire through it, a couple of wraps through the first rivet hole
That is all it takes
I was surprised how well it works and there it has been for many years now

 

[Squirrelmaster]

I took 410Fortune's idea and did a little bit extra to attach my strap: Photos - HOW TO - Replace Broken Seat Recline Lever With Looped Strap