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Take Apart Lazyboy Recliner
A Question was asked about how to get the seat out of a Lazybor recliner
There is a pin on each side at the front of the underside of the seat. To see it, look under the front of your lazyboy here (look clear up to the bottom of the seat):
A Question was asked about how to get the seat out of a Lazybor recliner 
There is a pin on each side at the front of the underside of the seat. To see it, look under the front of your lazyboy here (look clear up to the bottom of the seat):
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Look way up inside near the front of the seat, next to the arm and you will see a flat curved black metal arm the connects to at pin, which is held in place by a screw, as shown in this picture (look for the tip of my finger):
Take the screw out of the pin, then pull the pin out (towards the middle of the chair, in the direction away from the arm. This will free that flat arm from the underside of the seat. When you have the pins of both sides taken out, you should be able to lift the front of the seat up high. Now you will be able to see the screws that hold the back of the seat to the arms. Take out those screws (bolts) and then the seat will come out of the chair. Now take those brackets off the bottom of the seat. If you have a digital camera, I would recomment that you take pictures of each piece as you take it apart. That way you can remember how to put it back together. But if you can't take pictures, perhaps we can still help you put it back together. I've done countless lazyboys over the years.
recliner arms
I have a 20 y/o Lazy boy recliner. It has wooden arms that start at the back of the chair, come forward and then the wood comes down the front of the chair on either side. It has a small fabric arm rest in the middle of the wooden arm.
I can't get the darn thing off the chair. There is one obvious screw near the back of the arm on the underside, which will not move. On the front of the chair I can wiggle the wood but it is attached in a way I can't figure out or see. Either on the outside or from the underside. Help.??!!Looks a wee bit like the current Sarasota and Eva models.
Removing the wood arm top off a lazyboy recliner
Hi Kathy,
It would greatly help if I could see a picture of the chair because there may be several varieties. But I'll tell you the most common method. You may have to dissasemble the chair (take the seat and back out of the arms), but you might be able to acommplish this without doing that. Turn the chair on its side and take the fabric loose clear across the bottom of the outside of the arm, and as much as needed up the back of the arm as well. When you get the bottom of the outside arm loose, then use a wrench and reach up inside the arm to loosen the nuts at the top of the inside arm. There are usually 2 bolts that are screwed into the bottom of the arm top and go through to the inside of the arm. After you get the nuts loose, there may also be a wood dowel at the back end of the wood arm top. To get the arm top off, set the chair up, and, if you haven't taken the seat and back out, recline the backrest so that it no longer covers the rear of the arm. You may then be able to lift the arm off the chair. Sometime you need to insert a flat screwdrive under the arm top at the back and pry the arm top off.
Let me know how it goes.
Best Wishes,
Stephen