i just posted about this, with pictures on what i did to fix it. only way i know of is drilling it out. i drilled mine out i snapped 3 of the 8 bolts. put new bolts, washers, and nuts on. it works like a charm.

 

Link please? I'd really, really like to avoid drilling, but if all 4 of the 4 rear ones are going to snap between both fron, may as well just drill them.. Fortunately the fronts are nuts which were pretty lose on mine. Next to no effort in loosening those.

 

all the ones that broke for me are the rear ones, spray wd 40 is your only hope, maybe heat them up some. otherwise u will be drilling them out lol

 

I'm gonna spray it with PB Blaster twice a day everyday for the next two weeks. I bet the other ones will snap though, leading to the same thing.

**** it though. If they have to be drilled out, so be it. It's not like a drill bit has never been taken to the body of my car. I have 4 bolt MM caster camber plates.

 

i guess i didnt make a thread, i thought i did. but i did put it in my project link in my sig. a picture of the bolts, and the new seats in. works good no wiggles or anything tight in there.

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lol

 

Based on the location and that it's sheared off flush- just drill it out. That's your best bet.

 

I'm glad you chimed in WickedSnake, just to ask about your sig.

Does "May God have mercy on the soul who's holding the key." mean that your car is basically a bastard of a car, giving whoever owns it tons of problems?

 

It means my car is possessed by some sort of otherworldly demon, that causes perpetual bad luck and problems for whoever has the curse of owning it.

Also a line from this song, which describes my relationship with my car quite nicely-

 

Yea man just drill it out. If you use a punch to center the bit before hand you shouldn't hit the body. Just make sure the bit size is one or two smaller or you'll be tapping new threads too! Lol!

 

If the seat bolt is one that goes through the floor and sticks out the bottom, if there is bolt still sticking out the bottom side, you can weld another bolt onto the end of it and use that bolt head to turn the bolt out through the bottom. Did it on my Jeep when I pulled the seats out. Just an idea.

 

Out of all the bolts of the front two seats, I only had one snap. I ended up just drilling it out. But I would try hammering the hell out of it on the head (from the bottom.. so I guess that would be the opposite end of the original head..), after soaking it in WD40 Then use a vice grip to try to get it to twist out. Good luck!

 

Same thing happened to my car. Get a tap for the size of the stock seat bolt, drill out to the size required for the tap and the slowly tap out the remainder of the bolt and re use the original threads. Thats what I did and it worked perfectly.

 

I had the best results drilling out bolts using a left hand drill bit, it usually loosens the bolt as it drills and then they screw out with the drill before you have to drill all the way through.

You can get left hand drill bits from McMaster-Carr .

I'd grind the stub flat on top then center punch it and make a starter hole with a small bit then hit it with the bigger left hand bit.

Man I'm glad I don't live in the rust belt anymore, I used to fight these kind of problems all the time but now that I'm in Kali every bolt on my car looks brand new.

 

But mine don't seem to have snapped

I seem to have the same problem: The two rear bolts on my front seat won't come out.

They were very hard to turn initially, but then loosened up to some extent. But they just continued to turn forever, albeit with a little bit of resistance. There was no sudden snapping; the heads of the bolts are still on; and the backs of the seat tracks are still tightly secured by them.

There are no bolts visible underneath the car. So now I'm at a loss as to what to do...

 

I had this happen to me. It's so weird.

I had to center punch the bolt but the head would spin when I drilled. I put a wrench on it and held it there by putting my foot on the wrench then drilled it out. Replaced it with stainless steel bolts washers and nuts from home depot.

To resecure the seat Had a friend hold the top down from spinning with a wrench while I went under and threw a washer, lock washer, and nut on. Wasn't fun.

 

I have never had any luck with easy outs. I would drill out the bolts.