halik

I'll be doing some seat replacement in the next couple of days (despite the weather, my brother got me a monkey suit)... what exactly does it take to unbolt the stock seats?

Po924S

It depends on which model you have. Is it a early car(1985 and lower) or is it a later car (1985.5 and above)? If it is an early car there should just be four bolts, one at each corner. If it's a later car, it will have six bolts. The seats are fairly easy to remove.

halik

1986 NA - i take the seat had 2 rails, 3 bolts each?

schwank

Late cars have 6 bolts, but they are actually allen head inset bolts and not hex head bolts.

I think it is a 5 or 6mm bit. I use a set of small craftsman offset bit drivers to get at them. It's not hard at all with the right tools.

Po924S

Yea, it should only have three on each side. You can easily see how there removed if you just look at the rails.

eshane

Slide the seat forward, unbolt the rear bolts. Slide the seat back and unbolt the front bolts. Take the seat out.

IGROWL

I just did this. Three bolts on each rail, two behind the seat one in front on each rail. The size is 6mm for the allen wrench. Be carefull not to strip the bolt or the head.

hobiecat

I have an 87 and the driver's seat only had 4 (FOUR) bolts!!! Maybe my PO took the seat
out at some point!!! Grrrrrrrr.

Good thing I have some spares...I guess.

gizmozoid

I had 3 on each side. Taking it out was easy, but putting in new bottom-mount Sparcos with a slider was a pain, I couldn't get the back inside bolt in very easily since the seats wouldn't slide as much and they didn't recline which made it harder to reach around the back.

Tom R.

make your life easier, before you start by a 6mm allen that fits on a socket. break teh bolt with the regular allen. curse a bunch, and put band aid on finger you just cut. then use allen on socket to get rest of bolt out.

installation is the opposite except for band aid. dont remove it till the job is done.

plyhammer

DON'T STRIP THE BOLTS. I can't say this enough. If you strip one, you will have to go and drill it out and there isn't a great deal of room to get a drill there.

Z-man

+2 or 3, or whatever- -- just be careful.

-Z