[DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem

[B Hower]

I had bant rails and could not move my seats. The bolts came down through the dropped flow pan to nuts tack welded below floor. I cut these off to allow removal of seats and now I have nuts tacked to seat rails and bolts come up from the bottom.

Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be ! )


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From: The DeTomaso Registry Guy <detomasoregistry at gmail.com>
To: 'Charles Engles' <cengles at cox.net> 
Cc: List DeTomaso <Detomaso at poca.com> 
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Dumb Techno Question: Pantera seat problem


Have you inspected how the arm lifts the tooth (or cog) out of the lateral
track?

I suspect you might be able to move it with vice-grips?

Chuck


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From: detomaso-bounces at poca.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf
Of Charles Engles
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:48 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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