Part / Name for part? Rear-seats

[ecrotty]

Part / Name for part? Rear-seats - Updated with pic

I'll do my best to describe this...

Since I don't know the proper name of the part, I can't say it and have you all know what it is I am talking about.

That said...

When you need to raise the rear seats in a '99 4Runner (or all third gens I would imagine), there is a plastic piece screwed into the bottom of the seat which attaches to some looped string (best I can come up with at the moment) that you put your index finger through to pull the seat up.

The portion of the seat that I am referring to that you bring up is the part of the seat that you would put your butt on. Or the part you would raise to lower the seats. Look at it however it makes sense.

Hoo boy, I'm doing an excellent job with this. I guess I'm really frustrated that I managed to snap it off.

So - My question to the gurus is this ... What is that part properly called? The raiser-of-the-butt-portion-of-seats-with-a-finger-part? Better yet, does anyone know the part number so i can get a new one? Or even more super duper better, anyone have a spare one by some odd chance?

Thanks.

(I know some letters of part number are seen but I cant seem to find anything based off it)

 

[gapboi210]

I am guessing seat release strap? Did you break the plastic or the strap?

 

[lee]

my factory service manual calls it a "rear seat cushion holder"

there is no part number specified.

 

[ecrotty]

Ding ding.

Thanks for the "rear seat cushion holder" part.

That's what makes the most sense as that now since it is missing.. The seat doesn't seem to "catch" quite as much as it did before.

.. I guess you need to get an entire bottom portion of the seat for that...

Or a junkyard. I know what I must do now

Thanks VERY much for the help.

In the mean time, I'm going to give a little super glue a run.

(and yes, the plastic broke off in two)