Rear seat

[Perri Dyer]

Hi everyone, 

I’m wanting to get my rear seat re-installed, I wasn’t there when it was taken out, I got all new bolts/washers and nuts, but the part number 914024-6 wasn’t in the system at spruce and I can’t seem to find that part. It says bushing in the parts catalog but no other info. All help is greatly appreciated, also I would really like to find some pictures/videos of installing the bench seat since I hear it’s a pain. I did a search everywhere on here and the net and don’t really get any good info/tips to installation.

66’ M20E

[outermarker]

Since you have a bolt size you get a bronze bushing and cut it to size.

[Utah20Gflyer]

I feel your pain!  I had some avionics work done recently and my back seat was removed when I wasn’t there.  I volunteered to put the interior back in and when I got to putting the rear seat back in I didn’t have a clue on how it went in.   Fortunately between Mooney space and some trial and error I got it back in.  My seat backs have a fixed pin on one side and a spring loaded pin on the other so I think I have a different set up than you do.  There weren’t any bushings involved. 

[Perri Dyer]

19 hours ago, outermarker said:

Since you have a bolt size you get a bronze bushing and cut it to size.

I did come up with a bushing, my next issue is the order of items for the install. I can't tell from the picture 

[Perri Dyer]

16 hours ago, Utah20Gflyer said:

I feel your pain!  I had some avionics work done recently and my back seat was removed when I wasn’t there.  I volunteered to put the interior back in and when I got to putting the rear seat back in I didn’t have a clue on how it went in.   Fortunately between Mooney space and some trial and error I got it back in.  My seat backs have a fixed pin on one side and a spring loaded pin on the other so I think I have a different set up than you do.  There weren’t any bushings involved. 

Sounds like you have split backs? The bushing I am looking for is the lower mount to the backrest where the seatbelts attach to. I can't figure out the order of putting the parts in. 

[Shadrach]

16 hours ago, Utah20Gflyer said:

I feel your pain!  I had some avionics work done recently and my back seat was removed when I wasn’t there.  I volunteered to put the interior back in and when I got to putting the rear seat back in I didn’t have a clue on how it went in.   Fortunately between Mooney space and some trial and error I got it back in.  My seat backs have a fixed pin on one side and a spring loaded pin on the other so I think I have a different set up than you do.  There weren’t any bushings 

36 minutes ago, Perri Dyer said:

Sounds like you have split backs? The bushing I am looking for is the lower mount to the backrest where the seatbelts attach to. I can't figure out the order of putting the parts in. 

 

Can’t help you with order of install, but I’d think the bushing is for the seatbelt mount.

 

 

[47U]

1 hour ago, Perri Dyer said:

I can't figure out the order of putting the parts in. 

Bolt through the seat bracket, then the bushing, then the through the airframe mount.  On my ‘63C, the upper seat mount brackets attach on the aft side of the airframe mounts.  The seat back has a little more recline and is more comfortable.  

I riveted a couple floating nut plates to an aluminum back plate to slide behind the airframe structure because my fingers don’t fit back there to get the nut onto the bolt threads.  The screw holds the back plate in position lined up with the hole for the mount bolt.

 

 

[Perri Dyer]

excellent thanks that’s what I needed to know, I appreciate the pictures and your great idea, I already dropped one nut into the belly.

[M20F]

Mine is held in by zip ties and jb weld.  Even pulling a 6g snap roll it stays in place.  YMMV. 

[JMDENIS]

Where did you eventually get your bushing from or did you get it manufactured?

[A64Pilot]

Bushings if you can’t find one are easy to manufacture, most often just cut off a piece of steel tube, sometimes aluminum if not real structural, these are actually spacers not bushings.

Only time I’ve seen bronze if it’s a bushing that something moves, usually rotates on in like some kind of roller. That’s usually oil impregnated sintered bronze for lubrication. But bronze would be fine as a spacer too

Even Amazon is a source, and Grainger etc. If there is a “nut and bolt” store in your town they are excellent sources.

I used to make them all the time from tubing