AdrenalifeRX7

Hey,

This is a little problem I have had since I removed my sound deadening material a while back. Well I removed both the driver and passenger seats to do this of course. I put the passenger seat back in fine. When I went to put the 3rd bolt in on the driver side it would not tighten down. So it's stripped. Being a dumbass I wanted to see if it was the bolt or the thread hole on the floor, so I put the 4th bolt in the same whole and stripped that too. So basically what I'm saying is that I have 2 stripped bolts, and one bad thread hole on the floorboard. Now I'm sure I could buy 2 replacement bolts but that should only allow me have 3 bolts to hold the seat down. Is that okay? What would I do about the stripped hole? I really want to use all four bolts to hold this seat down. Right now there's only the 2 rear bolts holding the seat, so when I step on it I get whiplash, lol. Any idea's?

NATE

MikeLMR

don't drive it like that ... its extremely dangerous to have the seat floating about ... especially in an accident !

The only thing I can suggest is to have a look and see if you can get access to the threaded parts to replace them by welding some nuts in place of them orI suppose you could use a helicoil kit to repair the threads ... that would probably be the easiest method

Suparslinc

Get a thread cutter or tapper, whatever its called. I think the seat bolts are 14mm; you could cut the threads to 9/16" or 5/8". That must be the helicoil thing MikeLMR is speaking of. . .

10sec rx7

the seat bolts are M8x1.5 thread, there is a nut on the inside of the bit that it bolts to, you may be able to tap it out with a M10 tap.

dale

AdrenalifeRX7

K thanks guys

poweRX-7

kinda off subject, but i was just wondering if you have to unbolt the seats in the fb to get them out? i haven't tried to take my seats out yet, but i didn't think that you had to unbolt them.
jeff

AdrenalifeRX7

yeah you do. there's 4 bolts holding down the bracket and I believe that that's the only way to get the entire seat out.