Seat Dismantle Guidance and/or pics
Discussion
Currently finishing the full re-trim and the final part is to repair the bolster and replace the trim on it, and the sides of the seat next to the removeable helmet/cushion bottom.
To save the cash my trimmer has advised me to remove the trim, repair the bolster and drop it off for finishing.
So how do I best take the seat a part. Any advice and the best method, where the nuts and bolts are and how I access them and pics hugely welcome.
To save the cash my trimmer has advised me to remove the trim, repair the bolster and drop it off for finishing.
So how do I best take the seat a part. Any advice and the best method, where the nuts and bolts are and how I access them and pics hugely welcome.
The foam on the side bolsters is a one piece moulding that runs up and over the head rest and is moulded around the steel rod bolster braces. To get them off, you need to cut the cross stitching along the underside of the bolsters and around the inside of the head rest hole. The steel braces are bolted top and bottom to the seat frame. There's a bolt and nut at the bottom near the back rest pivot and then a bolt at the top into a threaded insert in the front of the top corners of the seat frame.
The bolster braces themselves are made of two pieces of steel rod, with a flat plate connecting them at the bottom, that the bolt goes through. The upper ends are welded end-on at right angles to a small piece of steel strip that the bolt at the top goes through. There are a couple of other pieces of plate welded between them as braces inside the foam.
The plate at the bottom is way too thin for the job and is the usual issue when it snaps. One of the steel rods on mine had also snapped about an inch from this plate.
I split the foam from mine by slicing it along the bottom edge so I could weld without risk of setting it on fire. I then glued it back together and John (Trim Technician) put some scrim(?) around before he did the trimming.
I haven't got any pics of the seat but hopefully that helps a bit.
The bolster braces themselves are made of two pieces of steel rod, with a flat plate connecting them at the bottom, that the bolt goes through. The upper ends are welded end-on at right angles to a small piece of steel strip that the bolt at the top goes through. There are a couple of other pieces of plate welded between them as braces inside the foam.
The plate at the bottom is way too thin for the job and is the usual issue when it snaps. One of the steel rods on mine had also snapped about an inch from this plate.
I split the foam from mine by slicing it along the bottom edge so I could weld without risk of setting it on fire. I then glued it back together and John (Trim Technician) put some scrim(?) around before he did the trimming.
I haven't got any pics of the seat but hopefully that helps a bit.
Curdster said:
Marcus super. I didn't want to start cutting the stitching before seeking advice so many thanks. I have read somewhere that I can use a penny washer to repair with weld, the bolster, if it has only snapped at the bolt bracket. I will take pictures incase it helps others.
Please do take and post some pictures, it's on my list - just not got round to it yet....
TBH the frames are pretty basic inside and mine weren't particularly well put together. It's also worth checking the base as the elastic strips running front to back on mine were fastened with metal hooks straight into holes in the fibreglass shell. The fibreglass had cracked in a couple of places and one of the hooks had pulled through.
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