Stuck Seat SM630

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.

Awesome - appreciate the help. Will give that a shot

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

Strange that the forks on the cable retainer don't point in the other direction.

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.