[DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem

[Mike Drew]

Ken,

That is a brilliant idea. 

If enough of the end of the bolt protrudes through the nut on the bottom, you can use a dremel cutoff wheel or a hacksaw to make a slot in the end. Then it is easy to turn it with a straight screwdriver. Righty righty will allow you to screw the bolts right up into the cabin until they pop free. You will have to alternate back and forth between them. 

Once the seat is out it should not be too hard to weld the handle back together. Then line everything so Alex the gorilla doesn't break things again! :)

Mike

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On Jul 20, 2013, at 17:53, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:

> why not just drill into the bolts from the bottom and tap something (not round) into the hole to turn the bolts?  
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> Dear Forum,
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>                     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.
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>                     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.
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>                     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.
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>                     Anybody see any problem with Plan B?  Anybody have a
> simpler strategy?
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>                                     Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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