92 arm rest , broken how to remove armrest part

[EliteConcept]

my bracket on the arm rest is broken.
my friend has a 94 explorer that he is willing swap the brackets with me...
is there a way i can remove the soft part of the arm rest from the bracket or is it all just one peice?
if so how do you seperate the two peices?

thanks
ryan

 

[Crankcase]

The bracket can be removed, with great difficulty. The pin holding it on must be cut, or a special tool is needed to pop the armrest section apart...There is alots of threads on this somewhere....

BTW, New metal replacement brackets from Ford are $50.00

 

[toad]

Check this out on Jeffs page I used it as aguide when doing mine.
www.glue.umd.edu/~singletn/web/pages/armrest.html

 

[ld50]

Mine was all buggered up when i bought it. I took it off (you need a torx bit) and driiled a hole in a thick piece of metal and jammed it in where the old broken part was. then i tightened the sucker real tight! Cant move it back now, but there isn`t room for anyone to sit there anyway on account of the shifters and shat.

It`s easy to remove. the bolt is on the inside.

 

[Crankcase]

Originally posted by ld50
Mine was all buggered up when i bought it. I took it off (you need a torx bit) and driiled a hole in a thick piece of metal and jammed it in where the old broken part was. then i tightened the sucker real tight! Cant move it back now, but there isn`t room for anyone to sit there anyway on account of the shifters and shat.

It`s easy to remove. the bolt is on the inside.

Is that the arm rest for a bench seat?I don't see how that would solve the regular arm rest problem

 

[ld50]

Yeah the 60/40 split bench or whatever. Also the latch was broken, so I cut two of the springs so the darn thing would stay closed.