My rear seat mount where it comes through the fiberglass deck is somewhat loose cause by the hole being larger than the aluminum seat mount. This causes the seat to move around a small amount when seating and rattle when on plane.
Has anyone experienced this problem and found a solution?
Yep...I got some thin aluminum...I think it was from dryer vent material...like a solid piece of thin aluminum to extend the vent. I cut it to shape, mounted it so it was just below flush with the deck, then used a couple of hose clamps to secure.
You can get a new bushing. Easy to replace. Just google pedestal seat bushing.
It’s not the seat bushing...It’s the clearance between the aluminum seat post and the fiberglass hole in the deck.
From BCB. This is how you do it.
This is from 2012:
This is caused from leaving the rear seat in place all the time. The aluminum seat pole with time wallows out the fiberglass just a bit and makes it loose. It creates a space between the fiberglass deck and the seat pole. We have nothing that will be a quick fix. What we have done here is wrap masking tape around the alum. seat pole under the deck from inside the battery compartment. Then from the top side pour resin or an epoxy based filler into the void to tighten up and fill that void. The tape on the bottom side just acts as a dam to keep the resin or epoxy from running down the seat pole and not building up. So the tape is wrapped around the poll to build up thickness.
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Merc V8 200 4S
Sorry, misread itOriginally Posted by willwork4fish
I filled the gap on a 08 model with epoxy and its as rigid as can be now.
2015 Phoenix 819
Epoxy is a great method.
Did this on my 09 Puma and it worked like a charm.
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