Anyone remove an original Bench Seat from a Double Eagle 185?

[N2013]

Thinking about removing the sleeper/bench seat from my 99, Double Eagle 185. Adding a pedestal. What needs to be unscrewed for the box to come out? It’s original. I’ve taken the dozen screws out from The bottom of the box
But it’s still in there pretty solid. Are these sealed to the floor as well?

 

[Stizzla]

In my 176 it was caulked on. Need to carefully get an olfa in there.

 

[RiverBoy]

was that your previous boat or the one you have currently? @Stizzla

 

[doubleeagle]

Took my sleeper out of 99 185 DE. 6 screws and popped right off

 

[doubleeagle]

No concern here with lost storage.

 

[N2013]

Took my sleeper out of 99 185 DE. 6 screws and popped right off

What did you use to pop it out? Did you have to apply any pressure underneath?

 

[ab1752]

If you can, use a length of rigger cable around 2 lengths of wood to effectively saw the seal off. They probably used something awesome like 5200 so try and saw through the seal as it looks like you can access around the entire bench.

 

[doubleeagle]

I just put a flat wrecking bar under and just pryed it up. It came up easy, from what I can recall