Fixing a Lazy Boy Recliner
 

I have a 1976(approx.) Lazy Boy. The chair is in great condition except the back supports have broken and now when you sit in the chair you lie down instead. Does anyone know of a way to fix the back supports or of a place where I can get instructions or a manual on how to fix this. Thanks in advance for any and all help that can be provided.

I once spent a day carefully taking apart a lazyboy recliner to replace the same parts that are likly broken on yours. It wasn't a lever operated recliner- when you wanted to recline, you grabbed the arms and pushed back with your shoulders. Roughly the same age.

I had to cut the flap that covered the internals, but it was easy enough to tack back in place. The whole mechanism was pretty easy to figure out, a couple bolts, a couple hooks. The chair was made mostly of a hardwood, with metal moving parts. The uprights that were broken were wood, and pretty integral to the whole operation. I cut out and bandsawed approptiate replacements, had to drill one hole, and put everything back together.

A month later it broke again. My replacements were the weak link. The fucking thing went to the dump that weekend.

Your call. I never intend to try furniture repair again.

You just need bigger guns! My dad and I repaired his old lazyboy a ton of times. A bracket similar to that which you speak of was broken... we took another piece of steel cut in to shape in our shop and welded the beast on.

-- $2 for steel, $2 for bottle of water to put out the fires you are going to start with the welder (not to metion that we have an old stick welder), and you get a fixed chair!

thanks for the help guys i'll give them a try.

I brought a twenty year old laz-y-boy brand recliner to the laz-y-boy furniture gallery with a similar hinge problem AND and an obviously abused broken foot rest. Both problems were fixed for free?

Took seven months but they were fixed no charge.

-bear