• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Stuck Seat SM630

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Hi everyone - looking for a bit of help. The seat on my SM630 seems to be stuck and I can't get it off. I can see the cable mechanism moving when I'm turning the key so it's at least partially working. Dont know if something else is jammed. Possible to bug someone on here to post a picture of the locking mechanism as well as the underside of the seat so I attempt to finesse it off rather than brute forcing it?

Thanks in advance
 
I think if you grab the black cable and pull it should release. You will have to remove a side panel first. The cable jacket probably came unhooked from the bottom of the latch.
 

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Unfortunately pulling on the cable housing probably won't do anything- didn't work on mine. The end of the housing (at the side panel key lock) is up against it's seating point, so pulling on the black housing won't pull the lever that needs to be pulled. It may on yours, though, but the cable housing should be immobile.

It'll be easy though. Now that you see (in Kirby's pics) the lever that the cable is actuating you can either push it aside by inserting a piece of coat hanger (w/ a little "L" on the end) under the rear of the seat (off to the side) or remove the side panel and fish around behind the key hole to pull the cable from there (perhaps w/ some needle nose pliers as that "box" that the lock is set into is covered on all four sides...but not covered well at the corners of that box.)
 
Ran into this after I had installed the Seat Concepts foam and cover. It would argue with me when I tried to take it off.

Figured out a system to aid removal.

Try pushing down on the back end of the seat while you're turning the key and then lift up. It allows the latch to fully release the seat pin.
 
Thanks again for the photos and suggestions. Finally got around to doing this and I tried the coat hanger but just found it easier to go through the opposite side of where the keyhole is and used a long screwdriver to push against the release and it popped right away. Culprit was the cable sliding out from the release mechanism
 

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My cable came out of place and I had to use a screwdriver also to remove my seat. I put some safety wire around the ends of the forks to stop it from happening again.
 
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