Gruffudd

Thanks for the help! Just today found the time to have another crack at it. Your advice freed the lock cylinder itself up perfectly smooth, but it still wouldn't release the seat so I took some panels and a passenger peg off for an explore, and managed to reach the cable. Pulling on the cable released the seat and with it out of the way I can see now that the problem is that the cable sheath doesn't seem to be secured at the key end. So the lock pushes the cable which flexes rather than effecting the latch on the other end if that makes any sense? Do you know how it is meant to be arranged/secured? Clearly it needs something to hold the cable sheath firmly. At least for now I can finally start on extracting and cleaning the carbs

Hi, I have recently bought a '96 Royal star xvz13a, it's been sat a few years so naturally needs some carburetor work. But to get to them I need to get the seat off first of all and the latch seems to be stuck. I did have the seat off before buying it when checking it over and it was a bit stiff, so once I bought it I oiled the heck out of it, wd40 followed up by acf50 down both latch and lock. It seemed to be operating smoothly so I put the seat back on and it's been stuck ever since. Tried jumping on the seat while wiggling the lock, to no avail. So any advice for either getting it off or alternative destructive ways? I'd prefer to fix it so I can keep using the original key lock, but it's holding everything else up so I'll take any solutions you have. Bonus question does anybody have the measurements for the windshield mount for this model? Originals seem unreasonably expensive, so I figure a little improv fabrication would be the easiest solution. Any other suggestions for how to get a windshield fitted to a 96 xvz13a without the original bracket would also be more than welcome.