Seat brace slip up

04/18/2019

Finished, but not.
While I was making the last welds on the floor brace, the ground which i stupidly attached to a seat "mount nut and stud" slipped. Well when the ground slipped it discharged and welded the nut to the stud.
I went to remove it and the whole stud started flexing bad, you could see the metal around the whole stud was weak. Just a poor design from the factory.
Pain in the butt.

Long story short I cut out the stud pulled the nut off in the vice, fabbed a new baseplate and welded the theaded bung to the plate and welded the plate to the seat brace.
Now I need to cut the threads with a tap and die to be totally done.
Next is cleaning and painting.

 
      

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