Sounds odd and I have absolutely no idea if its anecdotal but when I did the pinion seal on the Conti I found that the pinion had no preload on it. ...
with a lot of this stuff I suspect that if you change it on some sort of reasonable interval, exactly what you change it with gets far less critical....
Hmm. We really need to find you a seat back. I would think you can make one of of a sedan with a fair amount of custom work but having the real thing...
When I pulled my ECM to install the Quarterhorse I found the caps were leaking and dumping corrosive crap on the board, so I certainly get the appeal...