74 Archer seats

[BurninGas81]

Just bought a low-time 74 Archer. The left seat has the pneumatic lift cylinder and is at proper height. The right seat is couple inches lower and we could not find an adjustment for our initial flight home last night. I need to get both seats to proper height and leveled so my vertically-challenged CFI can instruct me.
Question: does the oem right seat have the same lift cylinder or does it have some kind of mechanism to adjust height, or, am I stuck w/ a low seat? I also think these seats need to be reupholstered/rebuilt as they are original w/ 1100 hrs.

 

[Bell206]

does the oem right seat have the same lift cylinder or does it have some kind of mechanism to adjust height, or, am I stuck w/ a low seat?

Review the attached parts book and see where your aircraft S/N fits into the seating options with Fig 35, etc. Then compare your seat to the pictures.
http://www.aeroelectric.com/Reference_Docs/Piper/pa-28-181_pcv1994.pdf

 

[BurninGas81]

Review the attached parts book and see where your aircraft S/N fits into the seating options with Fig 35, etc. Then compare your seat to the pictures.
http://www.aeroelectric.com/Reference_Docs/Piper/pa-28-181_pcv1994.pdf

Mine's a PA28-180, not 181. I'll check to see if these parts are same. At least this is a start. tx

 

[Hang 4]

You should be able to see if it's a adjustable or not pretty easily by looking under the seat. The fixed PA-28 seat has no mechanism for movement. Just look underneath with a flashlight.

 

[Bell206]

Mine's a PA28-180, not 181.

-180 manual:
https://www.coyoteflight.com/resources/Service_Manuals/Piper _PA-28_Parts_Catalog.pdf

 

[lblandina]

Just bought a low-time 74 Archer. The left seat has the pneumatic lift cylinder and is at proper height. The right seat is couple inches lower and we could not find an adjustment for our initial flight home last night. I need to get both seats to proper height and leveled so my vertically-challenged CFI can instruct me.
Question: does the oem right seat have the same lift cylinder or does it have some kind of mechanism to adjust height, or, am I stuck w/ a low seat? I also think these seats need to be reupholstered/rebuilt as they are original w/ 1100 hrs.

Generally, just the pilot seat had the vertical adjustment.

 

[BurninGas81]

yes, correct, only left seat has the height adjustment. The right seat is fixed height, so we're using a big chair cushion. Pretty weird arrangement to not be able to equal both seats. Right seat you can barely see over the glare screen if you're 6'-0" tall.