Has anyone, besides me, had a hard time installing your seat on your wing? Well I have ALWAYS had difficulty installing the seat on my 06.
Well after a great deal of time, I would way hours but that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but none the less, it took way too much time to install the seat.
So after attempting to install the tapered bolts I removed the seat cleaned up the threads and started over again.
I think the problem was and has always been that the plastic piece on the bottom of the seat pan, that is supposed to go under the metal piece that crosses from left to right over the fuel tank and under the seat wasn't going together properly.
First as I looked at the cross bar I noticed that the bar was somewhat bent down so I pulled it up to make it easier to slip the plastic piece of the seat pan under the cross bar. Then I tried to install the seat but it refused to go forward far enough for the seat bolts to go in.
So in a conversation with my neighbor he suggested just cutting the plastic piece, in question, off. Sounded reasonable so I did about 30 seconds of investigation and found that the plastic piece wasn’t going under the metal cross piece, there were indications that the seat was resting on the bottom of the plastic piece. So out came the little saw and off came the plastic piece from the bottom of the seat pan. Five minutes the seat was installed.
And no I don’t worry about the seat coming off, there are 4 good size bolts holding on a plastic seat.
P.S. Sorry this is so long but I couldn’t figure out any way to explain it.
Sorry there are no pics. If you want to see what I’m talking about I would suggest you take your seat off and see and look.