How to: Quick Release Seat

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Loki

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Instead of paying 20$ to buy a kit to release your seat quick, spend 5$. Here is a simple and easy mod we all can do (if you have the tools)

Supplies:
1" or a 3/4" stud 2x
Small hitch pin or whatever you want to use 2x

Tools:
Drill or dremel
Drill bit (I used a 1/16" just depends on how big you want your hole)
some sort of filing device.

1st get all your supplies.
Take out the orignal bolt
screw your stud in all the way
Put your seat back on, and mark where your stud lines up with the top of the plastic on your seat.
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Take the stud out.
I filed down the part I need to drill so it would be a bit easier.
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Clamp your stud to something.
Drill through.
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Next place some threadlocker to the stud
Hand thread it in the hole
Put the seat back on and make sure you can put your pin through, you may have to raise the stud up some.
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Lastly, I did end up cutting my studs to 3/4" of a inch so it wouldnt push up my seat then filed it with my dremel. Looks great.

Easy as pie. Just make sure you have a drill bit that can run through the stud, ive ruined 2 bits and still havent gotten through one. Got to get a better bit. Anyways enjoy new easy access to you seat. :D. P.S. if you cant do this mod, ill do it for you for just 5$, the cost of parts, and shipping (which will be super cheap). So less then 10$ total, promised.

ENJOY!
 
Awsome!, i was looking aroung my barn last night actually and thinking how i should go bout making this! But thanks for answering that! :)
 
I am half tempted to send you $10 just so I don't have to do it and save my self $10 or more for buying the asb ones.
 
Let me know. I just know that some people cant do the mods cause of the tools needed. Or the time. So i figure ill help some of us out.
 
i thought about doing this, but i think it was the coated stainless steel lanyards that drew me to ASB, i like you mod Loki very do-able
 
You inspired me. Here's what I did.
These are 1/4 20 shanked bolts. I think the shank was 5/16 by one inch. You can see some marks on them. I screwed them in, marked them for height, marked for left and right, and marked for hitch pin holes.
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Cost, free. That's the advantage of working on aircraft.

Used the lathe at work to remove the head and round them off like hood pins.
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Cost, free.

Dropped them in the drill press, holes for the pins, and a larger bit to "chamfer" the holes making the pin install easier.
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Installed them, used a pin punch to tighten and locktite to keep them there.
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Here's left and right with the hitch pins installed.
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Yea... I can only use so much work stuff, and I highly doubt they'd like me taking all the shank bolts and hitch pins to mass produce these lol. I'd bet those bolts are pretty expensive though I don't know for sure.
 
Well sirius i can make you some like mine, a bit better tho if youd like. I would just have to find the bolts he used and it wont be so pretty with the round top. Just smooth flat. Or i can make a set out of just screws. I made firebolt some, and theyll be shipped to him monday. Let me know!
 
firefighter! LMAO! PSSHSHSHSH what a dick![up] haha
heres what I DID.... all you need for this mod is... a 40,ooo dollar machine... two shank bolts.... thats hilarious! very nice work dude.. looks clean as fu*k, i would definately spend 20 bucks for yours... [up]
 
loki, way to show a quick ANYONE d.i.y. mod for cheap.[up] some people are more fortunate with on hand tools than others, they are both great write ups tho[up]
 
To find the bolts Firefighter used, look up 1/4-20 x 1" Shoulder bolts. Easily found on sites like McMaster.com or MSC.
 
firefighter! LMAO! PSSHSHSHSH what a dick! haha
heres what I DID.... all you need for this mod is... a 40,ooo dollar machine... two shank bolts.... thats hilarious! very nice work dude.. looks clean as fu*k, i would definately spend 20 bucks for yours...
lol.
Just showing some different options for people that want to DIY.

No way I could tie up machines at work or go through stock making these.

Otherwise, it would have been really ****** of me to come into someone else's thread and start making these as a "kit".[up]
 

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