Getting bucket seats off their brackets / rails?

billzilla · Post by **billzilla** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:29 am

How do you do it? I got one bolt off the slider rail but the other has the nut facing up into the seat and it's practically impossible (for me) to get at. Is that the only way to do it? I messed with the rail and a bearing bracket fell out along with some metal slug or spacer.

I figure this is the only way I'm getting my newer buckets into the car... I'd rather not cut off the welded bolts, grind them down and risk whether or not the other bolt holes will be the exact right size...

billzilla · Post by **billzilla** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:49 pm

Here's a pic showing what I mean:

DeLorean00 · Post by **DeLorean00** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:14 pm

Hmm I just did mine and they had just 4 bolts. Weird.

Don't get rid of those seats! Those are hard to find these days. Why dont you just recover them? Its not too expansive and is pretty easy/

billzilla · Post by **billzilla** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:32 pm

I know, mine has four bolts that connect the seat to the rails. And then four bolts that connect the rails to the floor... It's the two rail-to-seat bolts that point UP into the seat that I can't get at because the springs of the seat cushion prohibit my wrench or sockets from getting a grip!

arrrrgh

billzilla · Post by **billzilla** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:19 pm

Hopefully this better illustrates what I'm talking about...

DeLorean00 · Post by **DeLorean00** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:40 pm

I get what your saying. I pulled my seat out to check and my car has bolt in both spots. Maybe my seats were altered at some point?

Here are some pictures.

DeLorean00 · Post by **DeLorean00** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:41 pm

the other side of the track.

Smellslike1974 · Post by **Smellslike1974** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:41 pm

Im sorry bizilla but your pic made me bust up laughing.

Anyway,ive never delt with buckets so i have no clue,maybe its one of them cleverly built things.Where you screw around with it long enough and your like,"Oh wow didnt see that before"

billzilla · Post by **billzilla** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:09 pm

I wish it was like that! I just don't see how you can get the damned nut off the bolt without cutting or otherwise removing the springs from the way!

But yeah, I can see how it could be amusing. LOL

72Rdrnner · Post by **72Rdrnner** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:24 am

billzilla wrote:How do you do it? I got one bolt off the slider rail but the other has the nut facing up into the seat and it's practically impossible (for me) to get at. Is that the only way to do it? I messed with the rail and a bearing bracket fell out along with some metal slug or spacer.

I figure this is the only way I'm getting my newer buckets into the car... I'd rather not cut off the welded bolts, grind them down and risk whether or not the other bolt holes will be the exact right size...

You have to take the two parts of the track apart, if memory serves me right. There's two plastic pieces, each with a single roller bearing in it between the "slider" (that fastens to the seat) and the part that bolts to the floor. For the life of me though I can't remember how I got the two parts to slide apart, but I must have as the pix show them separated.

Don't know if any of this wll help. I'll dig around some more and see if I can find any more or some notes about what I had to do.

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Getting bucket seats off their brackets / rails?

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