Small stuff today. Been finishing up the current DRZ project, waiting on one wire to show up tomorrow and I can wrap that up for now. Today it was time to give the Land Cruiser some attention. 10mm_nut was completely transparent about the non functioning motorized passenger seat when I bought the truck for him. He explained, and I've found, that these things strip their gears out routinely and is a common issue. Common enough that a company called Gamiviti makes replacement gears for them.
First pulled the seat and started taking things apart following the directions in the Gamiviti youtube video. Lots of screwy things to remove but pretty easy, just follow along and stay organized.
Usually it's just one gear, but both of mine on the passenger side were stripped. Thankfully I ordered enough gears to do both gears on both seats. Here's a new gear next to two worn gears.
I also took Gamiviti's suggestion to install a set screw to keep the end cap (also provided by Gamiviti in their kit) to keep it from coming out again. It's pretty loose so seemed like a good idea to do it.
Works like it's supposed to now. Now my son will be happy to have a little more legroom when he rides again.
I'm pretty much an expert on this process now so the drivers seat will be easy next weekend. See, I was putting in the last screw in the front trim piece when the screw slipped out and went down into the seat. As I was fishing it out, there was a washer in there next to it. I started looking over my work and it looks like one of the washer's I installed on the drive shaft came off while I was fiddling getting the motor on. Had to take it all apart again to get that washer back in there. I was kind of glad that I dropped that screw actually.
Then I rearranged things in the garage so I could get the GSX-S out and go for a rip. Beautiful day for a ride.