super duty seats in bronco?

im trying to put a set of super duty bucket seats in my bronco, has anyone done this before? also one of the bolts broke off in the floor is there a way to get it out? thanks

For the broken bolt it might go through a nut plate and the bottom of the bolt might be visible form under the bronco. Not sure but you might be able to get some vise grips on it from the bottom and run it out that way if here is enough to get a hold of.

Mike

Mike G said:

For the broken bolt it might go through a nut plate and the bottom of the bolt might be visible form under the bronco. Not sure but you might be able to get some vise grips on it from the bottom and run it out that way if here is enough to get a hold of.
Mike

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Soak it with PB Blaster for a day or so before trying to get it out from the bottom. Other wise you will have to carefully drill it out and run a tap through it. Worse case is that you have to use a nut and bolt in it's place.

As far as the seat goes, you will probably have to swap the mounting rails.

Good luck,

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Fred has a good point but before drilling & retapping the hole I'd try an easy-out. You can pick one up at most auto parts outlets or Sears location. It's basically a large reverse thread tap looking thing. If you soak the broken shaft in penetrating oil & drill the center then try the easy-out you may well be able to back it out without destroying the threads. It might not work but I honestly think it's worth the effort to give it a shot before committing yourself to drilling it out & maybe having to jump up a thread size.

I would not even consider doing it until I'd soaked the broken stub in penetrating oil for at *least* two or three days while getting in there to hammer it with a hammer & drift at least once or twice a day to set up vibrations allowing the oil to penetrate the threads.

Just my own thoughts on the situation.

If you can get somebody to help you, try having them pull on the carpet to seperate it from the floor a bit and climb under with a small plumbing torch (propane or mapp gas) and gently heat it a bit while its soaked in penetrating oil. Heat around the bolt, not the bolt itself, and only just enough that it's like really hot coffee (200 degrees i guess), that seems to help penetrating oil soak in. I've done that on numerious things.

Another method I have had sucess with in the past involves canned air dusters for computers. If there is a nub of the bolt sticking out, turn a can of air duster upside down, and put the tube right up against the bolt, the liquid co2 is something around 70 degrees below zero. then grab the map gas torch and heat around the bolt, to heat the threads it's locked into and very very quickly try and loosen it. You only have a couple seconds that it works for but i've gotten things loose that way before.

On my truck the nut welded to the floor actually ripped up, I welded a nut to a fender washer (the really really wide ones), and jb welded it to the underside of the floor.

seats are now in except the one broken bolt

madmax said:

that it's like really hot coffee (200 degrees i guess),

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Where the **** are you getting your coffee ?

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What year did you put these into? I have a '94 that I want to replace the seats in. The stock seats leather is getting bad and the armrests are done for. I've tried to locate some Ford OEM seats to replace them with to no avail.

Robert

Robert_n_ak said:

What year did you put these into? I have a '94 that I want to replace the seats in. The stock seats leather is getting bad and the armrests are done for. I've tried to locate some Ford OEM seats to replace them with to no avail.
Robert

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mine is 94 seats are out of 2001 super-duty,if you want leather find an Excursion Limited, or a lariat.... you take off the Bronco bases, remove base from the newer seats, drill holes in the bottom of the seat to line up with the bronco seat base holes, then bolt the bases on and bolt them on the floor it only took around an hour to do both