seat support tool box on super c

Nuts are rusted beyond getting off will have to hot wrench. How are they coming up through trans cover threaded in. And how much trouble is it going to be replace them. Thanks for any help.

Those bolts thread into blind holes in the deck, instead of just cutting them off try heating them and then letting them cool down, then use an impact wrench to turn them out

you can also try heating them red hot and blow airon it to cool it fast then with a sharp chisel and a 5 pound mall hit it so it turns the chisel will bite in so you can turn it

I'm pretty sure you're talking about the bolts at the bottom, inside the box that hold it to the deck. I've looked mine over with an eye to taking it off. If they had god heads on them, you could remove the seat mounting plate on top(another challenge) and get a socket on an extension down to them through the slots from above. If they're rounded or rotted off, are they such that trying to get an undersize or metric socket on them might work? If not, it likely will mean having to work through the hole at the back and will be a real pain in the neck any way you go at it. To get in there with any tool is a challenge. If they're rounded off, it's even more so.

Worse comes to worse, I suppose you could get in there with a cutting wheel on a Dremel (tedious, but small, cutting wheels are fragile)or a die grinder (better, if you can get it in there AND still see what you're doing) and cut the heads off, then proceed with your favorite combination of heat, penetrants, welded nuts, extracting gadgets or drilling to get them out.

That's about all I can come up with off the top of my head. I'll be watchin' with interest here hopin' to learn something.

Thanks alot seems im going to have my work cut out for me as they are rotted and disfigured will keep you posted on progress

On my 200 when I removed the nuts which were very rusty and up to 2 sizes smaller and half gone. I was able to put the socket in the area through the big hole in back with and extension through the seat slot. Drive the socket, impact style with thick walls, on the nut witha a hammer. They all backed off with an impact wrench. I used multiple sockets metric and american.

When i had mine off to paint it, the only thing that would touch it was these bolt outs, they work very well in removing just about any fastener.

Andrew

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I like your approach. If it was mine, depending on the condition of the bolt heads, I might try heating them first and, after they'd cooled a little bit, make sure they got a good dose of penetrant so that it would draw down into the thread as they finsihed cooling. All before I tried putting a wrench to it. Six point sockets are to be preferred and if they're impact all the better for beating them down on. For every one that comes off with a wrench, that's one that doesn't have to be cut off and all the potential for a mes that goes with that.

Good to hear that the bolts line up with the slots for the seat slider. I figured they must, but haven't had one off yet to confirm that.