Seat bolt torque specs

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Does anybody know what the bolts for all seats are supposed to be torqued to?
 
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Wow, i would have though it would be a lot more than that.
 

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Mine had red locktite on the floor bolts. They felt a lot tighter that 30 pounds getting them out. I ran a tap through holes and the bolts through a die before putting them back in and used antisieze on them. I know you're not supposed to re-use them, but heck with that.
 
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Mine had red locktite on the floor bolts. They felt a lot tighter that 30 pounds getting them out. I ran a tap through holes and the bolts through a die before putting them back in and used antisieze on them. I know you're not supposed to re-use them, but heck with that.
I’m definitely reusing them but I was planning on putting blue loc-tite on them rather than antiseeze
 
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30 for the rear and 21 for the front ones
So I just saw this again on a cummins site about a 4th gen truck, And that is for the front seats. When taking the bolts out it seems a lot more than that but that could be because of the red loc-tite that they put on them. It then said 63 for the rear seats. Wonder why there are so much more.
 

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On my truck a couple were rusty underneath so I wanted something coating the threads. I had to use a breaker bar to get three of mine out between the loctite and rust.
 

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Torque specs are normally assigned by thread pitch, size, and grade of fastener. Here's a link that may help some folks: https://www.portlandbolt.com/technical/bolt-torque-chart/

It's important to note that bolts aren't torqued based on how much force it takes to remove them...So something that goes in at 30ft/lb with red locktite might be 100ft/lbs coming out with no heat to break it. Lots of comments about how tough things are to get apart, but that matters not to the OP's question.
 
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