RE: Trashed driver's seat mount; now what?

["Dupree, Jim" <dupree@alldata.com>]

We have at the shop a tool set called a "Nutter" or something like that. It
is roughly equivalent to a pop rivet with threads in it. It comes with a
variety of thread sizes. A precise sized hole needs to be drilled and the
tool with the nut insert on is installed and squeezed like a pop rivet only
you don't make it pop. When the inner part has expanded then you unscrew the
tool from the insert. You might have to go to a larger diameter bolt than
was originally used because of the size of the existing hole. I have only
used it 10 or 12 times over 5 years but it sure saved me a few of those
times.
Good luck
Jim Dupree


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Chris Newbold [mailto:cnewbold@earthlink.net]
		Sent:	Wednesday, August 18, 1999 8:31 PM
		To:	quattro@audifans.com
		Subject:	Trashed driver's seat mount; now what?

		So I was trying to remove the driver's seat from my 1993 90
		to bolt in a 5-point harness. The front of the seat is held
		to the floor with two 6mm hex socket bolts which go down
		through the floor and engage nuts which are welded to the
		other side.

		The first of these bolts broke free fairly easily; the
second,
		however, turned into a real mess. First, the hex socket
almost
		stripped out (as these things seem wont to do). I finally
got
		a sold fit and applied torque, and more torque and even more
		torque, but nothing budged. Then the welded nut broke loose.

		So, I had this bolt which just spun in the hole, and no way
		of reaching the nut. Realizing that I'd already reached the
		point of no return, I cut the bolt head off. The nut and
what
		remained of the bolt fell into the cavity beneath the floor.

		How do I fix this? I have no idea how to secure that one
side
		of the seat, short of cutting a hole in the floor pan from
		below so that I can put another nut on. I don't like that
idea
		at all...

		This seems like another triumph of Team Doorhandle(TM). (It
		seems as if quite a lot of LockTite had been applied to
these
		bolts, so that may explain why the weld failed...)

		Help!

		-Chris
		1993 90CS 5sp 79k miles