Seat runners

[Peter Mears]

I have the original style seats from the late eighties. These are mounted on runners for adjustment which in turn are on two lengths of steel. A bend at each end sits on chassis cross rail and bolts through.

The runners are riveted to the steel rails but these are very loose which results in the seats knocking fore and aft.

 

The rivets are huge, so my question is how do I replace them, what kit should I use for such large rivets.

 

Pete

[Kingsley Young]

I used these metal bars to mount some of the original S type seats and used nuts and bolts.

I drilled out the rivets. I think you could do the same.

Kingsley.

[Peter Mears]

The runners lay flat on the floor so the head of a bolt would need to be flat also.

[LesG]

Any chance you can have the rivets drilled out, and then plug weld back through?

[ECR]

Can you get access to the rivet shank ? If you can, belt it with a hammer to tighten it up .....

[Peter Mears]

Thanks for the replies, drilled the rivets out and used a nut and bolt. After spending ages bolting the seat back in it was still shifting. Turns out that the joint between frame and seat was connected in the same fashion. So out it came again and managed to drill out the rest of the rivets and put in bolts.

 

Cant see how these were every designed to last, a big square whole with a large flange headed rivet to take all that wear as the seat moves for adjustment.

 

I expect fixings on modern seats have moved on a bit.