KH Fusion Freeride problem

Loose the split washers, they are preventing you from tightening your
nuts properly.

Tighten the nuts on the seat like you are putting a wheel back on a
car, tighten the nuts, then tighten them again, than tighten them
again. Tightening some nuts can take pressure off other bolts when they
are tightened allowing you to tighten the other nuts more.

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Excellent, thanks. I remember reading somewhere that you shouldn't
overtighten certain KH seats due to them stripping. Is this true for
this seat as well?

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I don't really see how you could strip a KH seat. The bolts that connect
to the seatpost go through the steel stiffener plate with square holes
to keep the carriage bolts from turning.

It is probably more important to have all the bolts have equal tension
than having the nuts cranked down supper tight.

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I've broken the bolts off by overtightening.

I recommend a dab of loctite.

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You can strip the square part of the bolt so that the bolt wont be
anchored to the seat anymore.This is a real pain because it is hard
then to get the stripped bolt off.

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saskatchewanian said:

Tighten the nuts on the seat like you are putting a wheel back on a
car, tighten the nuts, then tighten them again, than tighten them
again.

That's a bad idea. I did that once, and it ended up snapping the bolt
clean in half. Twice in a row!

That was a while ago, more recently (just the other day in fact) I had
a problem with my KH Freeride where the threads on one bolt were
slightly stripped out, so I figured I would just take the seat apart
and replace the bolt.

However, the rear bolt holding the bumper on was also stripped, in a
different way. The hex shape in the plastic seat base was stripped out
(bolt was fine) so that when I turned the nut it just spun forever, and
couldn't get the bumper off, and therefore couldn't get the cover off.

In the end I ended up being forced to actually cut the bumper off, just
to get the seat apart to replace the first bolt! All this on a
relatively new KH seat that I won at Moab last year but have hardly
used.

Long story short I guess, there are plenty of ways to strip a KH seat.
Just snug all the nuts down then go another turn or so past that. As
already mentioned, when you tighten one down a lot it loosens up the
others, so go back and check them all....

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