Got a buddy back home that trades his 96 wide glide in on a 99 Ultra Classic, He was trying to git the seat off and notised a spring under the back tour pack and was asking what it the spring for. He wanted to git to the bolt holding the seat on. Anybody got any answers . Thanks !

 

Someone will correct me if I am wrong...

The spring is supposed to be connected to the passenger headset plug. It keeps the plug in place.

 

The spring is attached to the head set hook up for the passenger and allows the plug to be pulled out/spring loaded to make it easy to plug in the head set while seated. It is not attached to the seat. A long screwdriver can be used to remove the phillips screw that holds the seat by running it between the tour-pak and back part of the seat. You can also purchase a thumb screw to replace the phillips which then allows for finger tip removal without a screw driver. Any HD dealer will have the thumb screw. You dont really need it. I dont use mine so the seat can just be lifted out of the bracket that goes under the tank.