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Greetings
I have a 2006 E-150 and I recently took off both armrests to get some seat covers on. I was unable to re-install the armrests as the mechanism seems to have been designed by devil.
When I went to screw back in the the torx bolt, there simply was no nut or receptacle of any kind in the seat to screw into.
What am I missing here?
Any thoughts or expertise is greatly appreciated!
God Bless Henry Ford! Drivers side armrest 2006 Ford E-150. Unable to screw back in torx screw.
If it is due to no nut, you can buy a rivnut tool and put a threaded insert in the seat to thread in a bolt, I found that pretty much every Ford came from the devil, if I die and go to hell, I expect I will spend eternity working on Ford vans
Thank you @maples01
I will look into that.
But I am still curious as to the design of the mechanism. I unscrewed the torx bolt from the seat, yet when I went to screw the thing back in, there was nothing to screw into.
I don't remember losing a nut or hearing anything coming loose and falling....
I wonder if there is a schematic of the design floating around somewhere...
i trashed the crappy ford seats and put in a 2001 doge rams seats with the center seat. best upgrade yet
why anyone would want to repair those seats vs putting in ANY OTHER good seat...
I've had the rivnut come loose on me in some situations, if you could get an old school lawn mower wheel nut, back when they had teeth, get that behind it and it could hold itself when you tighten the bolt, if you can get it behind there. I'm wanting to recover my seat, now you have me not wanting to attempt it, with my luck and all.
You should be able to fish the nut out of the seat with a good flexible magnet
You should then be able to reinstall the armrest with the nut held in place with needle nose vise grips
This used to happen just about any time you removed an armrest
Thank you all for your responses! I am very appreciative!!
So it appears the design is flawed. Ford could have properly welded the nut into place but they spot welded it and the nut breaks off from the seat over time.
I don't have the time or resources to re-weld the thing as suggested in the youtube video.
I will probably try to fish out the nut using a magnet, but I know this will involve destroying some of the foam of the seat.
Perhaps I will buy 2 seats fro the scrap yard....?
But my van is old and rusting, running like a champ at 170Km, but rusting pretty bad nonetheless.
Alas, I think I will just end up getting used to driving without the armrests. It was extremely annoying at first but I have slowly gotten used to the torture and perhaps I won't even notice the abuse in a few short weeks!! lol....Sound familiar???
I mounted sienna middle row seats for driver/front passenger in my travel van. $70ea on car-part.com. Mine are the regular non recliner ones. Ea seat has 2 armrests that work! I kept the ford factory seat belts and pre tensioner.
My work van still has the seat with the failed armrests. Will be a winter project.
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