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Cant take off seat! need some creative help

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#1 · (Edited)
i bought my bike second hand btw...anyway i was attempting to install my clear alternative tails today which requires that i remove my front seat but the allen bolts just keep spinning for ever when i try to take them off...im thinking they are stripped or something...please post some ways for me to get around this...maybe someone sees something i cant and knows a way to remove these faulty bolts
 
#2 ·
try taking the rear seat off and see if just maybe you could get ur hand down behind those bolts see if the backing is just spinning as well? i dont know just an idea
 
#4 ·
Try sliding in a flat head screw driver between the bolt head and plastic. Turn the screw driver as you turn the bolt. Sometimes for me it's only the bottom threads that get stripped and if you can pull the bolt as you turn it the good threads might catch.
If it doesn't pull up at all, then the bolt is fine and it must be the nut it's going into. If nothing is holding it from spinning, then nothing is holding it down and since I'm sure the you've tried to just pull it out....right???..then the nut it's going into must be spinning as you turn. You'll have to find someway to hold it.

In a last moment of desperation, you could drill it out.