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Saturday, December 2, 2017

2 December - Front Bench Seat

In order for me to paint the inner roof and fore/after pillars, I removed the front and rear seats.  While removing the front bench seat, the passenger side track literally fell apart.

The track uses two pieces of metal that have ball bearings and rollers.  One end of the seat tracks roller and ball bearings fell out of the track.  After gathering up the parts, I attempted to put the assembly back together.  From what I've discovered it looks like this seat track has had this problem for awhile.  I had noticed that the passenger side doesn't always slide/move properly.

While looking at the parts of the seat track, one of two ball bearings was missing.  Which could explain why that track was difficult to move sometimes.

So I didnt have a 1/4" ball bearing handy but I did have one that close to that size.  So I removed that remaining bearing and put two of the same kind in the metal clip slider with the roller.  I greased everything and re-assembled.  I have not tested it yet, since it needs to be in the car and that will probably be tomorrow after the chassis saver dries.