5065E seat bolts work loose

crowbar032 · Oct 28, 2014

I'm having trouble keeping the bolts that hold the seat on the tractor tight. There are only two bolts, I guess the movement side to side just wiggles them loose. The front one seems to come loose faster than the rear one. There isn't a lock washer on them, but I'm not sure it would to any good. I'm going to use a crapton of locktite and really torque them down if no one has any ideas or it's just my tractor with the issue. I guess another alternative would be replace with a stud and put a lock washer and nut on the top.

I've re-tightened them a dozen times. Anyone else have this issue? Correction or fix for it?

JD5210 · Oct 28, 2014

My suggestion is to put some Loctite on them and see how that works.

Tx Jim · Oct 28, 2014

Ditto on the Loctite

Pepsiboy · Oct 29, 2014

crowbar032 said:
I'm having trouble keeping the bolts that hold the seat on the tractor tight. There are only two bolts, I guess the movement side to side just wiggles them loose. The front one seems to come loose faster than the rear one. There isn't a lock washer on them, but I'm not sure it would to any good. I'm going to use a crapton of locktite and really torque them down if no one has any ideas or it's just my tractor with the issue. I guess another alternative would be replace with a stud and put a lock washer and nut on the top.

I've re-tightened them a dozen times. Anyone else have this issue? Correction or fix for it?

crowbar,

I would suggest using lock washers AND some type of thread lock on them. ( Such as locktite ) Let the thread lock set up for at least a couple hours, then ROCK AND ROLL. :2cents:

Dave