Middle Front seat mountings

A nooobie post, and apologies if it is a bit basic. Trying to remove the centre seat from my 90SW to fit a cubby box. Everything I have read says that the seat bolts are fixed on the underside, and should just undo. Mine don't seem to be fixed so the bolts just twizzle around, never comming undone.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a secret to getting these undone? Or is there some way of accessing the underside?

Any help would be appreciated.

Mine did the same so I held the end of the bolt with a vice grips and loosened the nut with a spanner. I done all of it from underneath the landrover.

You can get at the underside of the bolts really easily by removing the black panel that goes over the transmission tunnel part of the seat box- in between the front seats. Then you can get at the underside of the bolts.

Thanks to both of you for these suggestions. Will give it a try later and let you know how I get on.

Both options worked. The key was to remove to middle seat, and that gave access to the bolts underneath the body. There was a load of wires and stuff under the middle seat, which apparently is where a diagnostics tool can be plugged (?).

Having removed the middle seat, then tried to fit the cubby box. Box was too long and too narrow to fit in the gap! If the back of the box was rammed against the stored jack base then the front was fine, if the back was set up in such a way as to allow access to the jack base, then the front was in danger of severing all of the electrical gubbins.

Which ever way we tried the holes in the cubby bore no relationship to the holes left by removing the seat.

So now I am wondering if my ebay bargain cubby was such a bargain? Whether it is normal to fit a cubby and drill new holes, whilst leaving the old seat bolt holes empty?

Any wise words appreciated - thanks again in advance.

(Hopefully this is of use to other noobies?)

I made my own cubby box so I made sure that the old seat holes lined up. I'm not sure what the bottom of your cubby box looks like but would bolting a metal plate to the base of it and and then drilling the plate to match the holes left by the seat work?

Thanks for the suggestion Jim. Have had a look and that might work, however it would need to be a box section rather than a plate, as the box would be to low without a spacer of some description.

If I don't do this, and drill new holes, what do you think about the old seat mounting holes? Any suggestions on how to plug them so they don't rust?

Photos of fitted cubby boxes anyone? Just trying to see if I have got it totally wrong.

Finally got it fitted. Seat holes were filled with Zinc screws and bolted on the underside. Inspection cover drilled and then the cubby stands on 4 plastic feet (supplied). Tricky to tighten the bolts on the underside, and the edge of the inspection cover means that I couldn't put a washer on the nearside.

Feeling ridiculously chuffed with myself now.

PrivatePit said:

Finally got it fitted. Seat holes were filled with Zinc screws and bolted on the underside. Inspection cover drilled and then the cubby stands on 4 plastic feet (supplied). Tricky to tighten the bolts on the underside, and the edge of the inspection cover means that I couldn't put a washer on the nearside.

Feeling ridiculously chuffed with myself now.

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I bet its full of junk after a month.