Rear

REAR

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service, carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor. Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the DaimlerChrysler Mopar(R) Parts Catalog.

NOTE: The following procedure applies to the seat belt retractors used on any two-position or three-position rear passenger bench seat.





1. Remove from the vehicle the rear passenger bench seat that contains the seat belt and retractor unit to be serviced. .
2. Remove the molded plastic shield from the back of the rear seat. .
3. Remove the seat belt buckle on the right outboard end of the rear seat. .
4. For the left outboard seating position only, unsnap and remove the plastic trim cap (5) from the screw (4) that secures the seat belt lower anchor (3) to the left outboard end of the seat cushion frame.
5. Remove the screws that secure each seat belt lower anchor to the seat cushion frame.
6. Remove each seat belt lower anchor with two washers (2) and a spacer (1) from the seat cushion frame.




7. Lift the webbing (2) for each seat belt to access and remove the plastic push pin fastener (3) that secures the rear seat belt turning loop trim cover (1) to the turning loop bracket at the top of the seat back (4).
8. Remove the trim covers from the turning loop brackets and the seat belts.
9. Remove the trim cover and padding from the rear seat back. .




10. Remove the cover (1) from the back of the rear seat back frame (2).




11. Remove and discard the push nut (4) from the pivot pin (1) at the back of the rear seat back frame turning loop bracket that secures the two turning loops (2) and the two bushings (3).
12. Remove the pin, the two turning loops and the two bushings from the turning loop bracket.




13. Route the seat belt latch plate (1), lower anchor (6) and webbing (3) through the two turning loops (2) and the turning loop bracket at the top of the seat back frame.
14. Remove the screw (4) that secures the rear seat belt retractor (5) to the bracket on the back of the rear seat cushion frame.
15. Remove the rear seat belt and retractor as a unit from the bracket on the rear seat cushion frame.