Rear seat back bracket

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I wanted to increases the storage area available in the boot and use the rear of the back seat as a cargo barrier. So I made a little J shaped bracket to make the top of the back seat to be vertical.
This goes in between the hook on the seat and loop that the seat back hooks onto.
I made it out of a slotted piece of 25mm x 3mm flat steel and bent one end over to fit over the loop. It is secured by a screw, in a tapped hole, which stops it sliding off the loop.
The other end has a hole in it that the hook on the rear seat latches onto.

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David

[Pecky]

Updated Rear seat back support

In an effort to maximise the load space in the back of the car I decided that it would be useful to have the rear seat back vertical instead of semi reclined. I had made metal J brackets but wanted something easier that anybody could use.
I found that two Zenith 6mm Galvanised Hook and Eye Turnbuckles available from Bunnings for $3.11 each does the trick. With the addition of a couple of Zenith 1/4" Zinc Plated Mudguard Washers available from Bunnings for $3.98 to stop the hook falling off.
• Unwind the hook from the turnbuckle and fit the washer on the threads and screw it back in a bit.
• Unwind the eye from the turnbuckle to match the length of thread on the hook.
• Unlatch the rear seat back.
• Push the eye end of the turnbuckle in the seat back latch and relatch it.
• Put the hook end of the turnbuckle over the U shaped bracket.
• Wind the turnbuckle in as far as it will go so that the hook end doesn’t slip off the U shaped bracket.