Having trouble with 2019 RTL seat bolt removal - help? Ideas?

[casey111]

Hello everyone. I am trying to remove the stock seat on our 2019 RTL. Each side has a bolt and a hex nut in a square plastic housing. On one side, I somehow pulled the nut out of the square plastic housing. When I turn the bolt, the hex nut spins with it. I can't seem to access the nut to hold it when removing the bolt. I am wondering if it is cross threaded or something.

Does anyone have an idea on how to remove this bolt and nut? I tried from both above and below the seat. There is not much room to get anything in there to hold the nut when loosening the bolt.

Thanks all!

 

[CopperSpyder]

Hello everyone. I am trying to remove the stock seat on our 2019 RTL. Each side has a bolt and a hex nut in a square plastic housing. On one side, I somehow pulled the nut out of the square plastic housing. When I turn the bolt, the hex nut spins with it. I can't seem to access the nut to hold it when removing the bolt. I am wondering if it is cross threaded or something.

Does anyone have an idea on how to remove this bolt and nut? I tried from both above and below the seat. There is not much room to get anything in there to hold the nut when loosening the bolt.

Thanks all!

If you take the back part of the seat off (passenger back rest) you will have more room to work on the nut and bolt on the lower seat that may help if you have not done that.

 

[casey111]

If you take the back part of the seat off (passenger back rest) you will have more room to work on the nut and bolt on the lower seat that may help if you have not done that.

I did remove the passenger back rest. I can access the bolt head this way, but the nut is inside the plastic parts that the seat mounts to. Thanks!

 

[usmc4507]

did you find a way to get the bolt out and if so any pics by chance to show how?

 

[Lew L]

I did remove the passenger back rest. I can access the bolt head this way, but the nut is inside the plastic parts that the seat mounts to. Thanks!

Please remember to stuff the holes with rags. A dropped nut may never be recovered. All those under seat bottomless pits are now filled with bits of foam---- the under seat area stays so much cleaner.

Lew L

 

[Peter Aawen]

I did remove the passenger back rest. I can access the bolt head this way, but the nut is inside the plastic parts that the seat mounts to. Thanks!

If the nut is spinning in it's little hole, the edges that are meant to hold it still have been ripped out anyway, so you might just want to force a socket of the right size in there to hold it still while you undo... :dontknow: . I'd be using a little mechanic's mirror on a stick (or if you don't mind the image being a bit smaller, a dentist's mirror?!) to check out what's actually going on first tho; but I've worked on a few Spyders with seat mounting points that no longer stopped the nut from spinning, and they've all succumbed to a Sidchrome Deep Socket.... can't remember which size tho, but it shouldn't be too hard to check if you've got a Spyder handy?!? :thumbup:

 

[PW2013STL]

Have you tried a flat screwdriver with the tip between the plastic nut and the mount?

 

[FrogmanDave]

Have you tried a flat screwdriver with the tip between the plastic nut and the mount?

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