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Expert: - 2/23/2008


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I have a 1963 Mercury Monterey and I am trying to get the front seat out. It is a powered bench style seat and the motor for the power seat is running but the seat is not moving. I would like to get it out to investigate, but I can't see how it comes out. There are bolts going trough at the front and back but there is no head on the bolts to turn them out. Do you know if you have to somehow unbolt it from the track or is there a special tool to get at them from the bottom where there is a rubber "puck" and then a large metal washer type of nut?? Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Thanks,

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I think that the large rubber puck that you have found is the body to frame mount.I think a little more investigation under the car will find 4 bolts that run up through the floor to the seat tracks. Removed these bolts and the seat should lift out.
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All automotive including antique and collectible. However if the car has been modified I can only answer in general terms and maybe get you pointed in the right direction.

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Automotive tech instructor. Syndicated auto columnist 1970's though the early 1990's. Syndicated auto radio talk show, Ask Brad About cars, CBS Radio 70's through 90's TV Show "Last Chance Garage" 1980's PBS-TV syndicated. Auto instructor for the following companies: Fram Autolyte Holly Carter AMF Ford Motor University Of Conn Blue Hills Technical School Sugar River Technical Center Grew up in a family garage in Needham Mass and turned wrenches from the age of 14.

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Manchester Union Leader, Nashua Telegraph, Motor Service Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Popular Mechanics (Saturday Mechanic early 80's), Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and lots more.

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More than I care to remember. Basically Franklin Technical Institute in Boston, Northeastern University, Fitchburg State Teachers College, Tufts University, and a lot of factory schools along the way.

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Moto Award winner. And much more.

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