Help..broken seat bolt

[jdonovan]

I broke one of the bolts that hold the back of the front bucket seat of my 66 Barracuda. I was lucky enough that I was able to drill out the threaded part in the seat frame. Anyone know the part number or have some kicking around that they would like to sell?...thanks in advance..Joe

 

[mcnoople]

I am assuming it is the pivot bolt at the joint between the back and bottom.

That looks an awful lot like a seatbelt bolt, maybe the same as the middle belt anchor in the rear on cars with 3 rear belt. They used a longer one when it has to anchor 2 belts on one bolt.

I bet that bolt can be found on any mopar seat pivot up until they switched to metric and even then they might not have change the size and thread. I know some late 80's and early 90's mopar stuff still used SAE fasteners when 98% of the rest of the car was metric. I would take the bolt and head to a auto junkyard and pull some seat pivot bolts for comparision, prime targets would be 70's era trucks since they will all have seat that fold forward. Good luck

 

[KitCarlson]

That is a shoulder bolt. They are specified by shoulder diameter, length, thread size, thread length, and grade. You might see if Fastenal has one that fits your needs. I can not determine thread size or other dimensions from the picture.

 

[mcnoople]

Yup, it is a shoulder bolt and fastenal does sell shoulder bolts. But I don't think you will be able to find a shoulder bolt through fastenal that has the ultra short hex head like his original. About the only place the short head shoulder bolts of that approximate size are used is seat belts and seat pivots.

 

[RedFish]

If I'm not mistaken Year One has those bolts. I bought the bolt and special tension washers but it was a long time ago.

 

[67Dart273]

If you can't find one right away go down to your local hardware store and look through "those bins" for various spacers and bushings. It at least would get ya "on the road" while you look for a "real" one.