Seat, mounting bracket, and pedestal repair and/or replacement

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by soulseller

My V came with 2 Todd Freeport 200's that are probably salvageable with a little bit of work. The problem is that the mounting plate and sliders on one of them is completely broken and is currently hanging on with some ductape and bubblegum, the other one is not too far behind...

My big question is that the pedestal on the captains side chair is loose, I tried tightening the screws but they just spin freely, I tried taking them out, but again they just spin. I'm assuming there are nuts on the backside but as far as I can tell the underside is completely inaccessable, any suggestions on how to remedy this issue?

Yeah, but it's gonna be a genuine pain in the @$$...take ALL the fasteners out and replace w/the stainless steel toggles made for that application...they are not "butterfly" toggles...straight w/a plastic break-away strip..

Here ya go...http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...7&classNum=563

It MIGHT be you can get ONE under the pedestal w/out removing all, but if you can do it, it'll be a pretty good trick...be sure you bed the pedestal flange back to the deck when you reinstall...I like 4200 for that job...