911 seat removal; my experience

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

I've had to do a fair bit of seat swapping in the GF's 1982 911SC lately. I ran into some interesting problems, and thought that I might share some of my solutions.

I removed the seats from the car by removing the sliders from the car's chassis. They are held on by four M6 bolts, which require a 10mm wrench. Or rather, they would, if you could get a regular wrench on them. Since they sit down inside the rail, I couldn't get a wrench on them. I tried a 10mm socket, no good. So I tried a 1/4" drive 10mm Craftsman socket. Still no joy.

On what I thought was a slim hope, I dug out my Snap-On 1/4" drive 10mm socket. It was small enough to fit on the bolt head! Unfortunately, it was tall enough that I couldn't get both it and a ratchet onto the bolt head.

Finally, figured out that I could easily access the front bolts by sliding the seat back, and once those two were removed I could slide the seat forward far enough to access the rear bolts. It took me quite a while to get to that point, though, and I'm sure I made up more than a couple of swear words trying to get those two rear bolts out!

When installing, I get the two rear bolts installed first, and tighten them pretty much all the way. I find that there is just enough "give" that I can muscle the seat around enough to line up the front bolt holes once I've done that. And it's not like I can really get a wrench on the rear bolts once the fronts are in place anyway...

The sliders are held onto the seat frame with M6 Allen-head bolts. The bolts take a small-ish Allen wrench, possibly 4mm. I had one strip the head, so I replaced it with an aftermarket M6 Allen-head bolt I had that took a 5mm wrench. That offers more surface to tighten on, and slightly less chance of stripping the head.

Now I can swap seats in about 5 minutes. Since Lisa likes the "sport seat" for the track, and the normal seat for the street, a quick swap is a good thing...

--DD

[tchanson]

I would also suggest a trip to your local Radio Shack and look for this mini ratchet. Less than $10 as I recall.

Makes reaching the allen bolts and swapping seats a simple task.











Tim

[RoninLB]

I whack the 1/4 10 socket in there.

also raise electric seats.