[DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem

[Charles Engles]

Dear Michael,

 

 

                     I think that is the best suggestion yet.   We're on it!
Thanks.

 

 

                                    Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

 

 

 

 

From: michael at michaelshortt.com [mailto:michaelsavga at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 6:32 PM
To: Bill Moore
Cc: Charles Engles; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem

 

Have you removed the two bolts that you can remove and tried to raise the
loose end enough to access the release device.  It really is a rather simple
piece, just a pivoted arm held in place by a spring. An extra long flat
screwdriver should work to pry the arm's cam notch out of the slide hole.

Michael Shortt

With regard to plan B, if it comes to that, you'll want to pull the carpet
back to prevent a fire when welging the nuts back on ( I'd use New nuts).

On Jul 20, 2013 7:05 PM, "Bill Moore" <Bill at incendium.com> wrote:

Get a pillow.

Cheers,

Bill Moore

Calgary, AB.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at poca.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf
Of Charles Engles
Sent: July-20-13 4:48 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem

Dear Forum,





                    My brother's Pantera has Pantera seats.  The little
lever arm uner the seat that rotates up to permit adjustment of the seat
fore and aft fiendishly broke off so that the driver's seat is "permanently"
adjusted where it is.



                     My first plan to simply unbolt the four bolts holding
the seat down was defeated when inspection showed that only the front two
bolts were accessible.  The stuck seat is adjusted so that it perfectly
blocks any access to the rear two bolts.  Sigh.  There is no way to get a
handle on the remaining stump of the broken lever arm.  It is too short and
too deeply positioned.





                     Plan B: is to take a cut off wheel or equivalent (and
he is open to suggestions) to the nuts welded to the underside of the floor
pan and frame rails where the seat bolts "bolt into".  With the currently
(spot??) welded nuts then *loose*, they could be simply removed from the
underside of the bolts, which would permit the seat to be lifted out .
With the seat out, we could attack the problem of the broken seat adjustment
lever arm.   Also, the previously spot welded nuts could then be promptly
welded back and all would then be in order.



                    Anybody see any problem with Plan B?   Anybody have a
simpler strategy?





                                    Warmest regards, Chuck Engles



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