Captain Bud

My 1960 seat tracks are rusted/frozen and I need to remove the seat frame to get access to the bolts holding the tracks to the body.
The front cage nuts holding the tracks to the frame are obvious. Where are the rear ones? I've looked and looked and I can't find those bad boys. Can anyone help me locate them?
Thanks,
Bud Weisser

DZAUTO

If your seats are in the full rearward position, the rear bolts are covered up by the frame.
To access the rear bolts, you are going to have to get (ie force) the seat frame to slide forward so that the rear bolts are uncovered.
Good luck!

Captain Bud

That will give me access to the bolts that hold the track to the body. I need to remove the seat frame from the track. The front cage nut is visible but I can't find the rear nut that hols the frame to the track.

DZVette

Bud,
Tom's info is spot on. The attached PDF shows the mounts in my 60 as well as info from the '60 AIM and the ST-12. This should get you going. I've also attached some info on the seat track refurb that i did when I got this car. The tracks were pretty much frozen at the time.

Dave Z

Captain Bud

Dave, the pictures are perfect! I'm concerned when I try to move the seat far enough forward, because it seems stuck in the far aft position, I'll break the mounts in the back. I guess I need to be gentle with it.

Betty Floyd

I used PB Blaster and turned the bolts back and forth a little everyday and they finally came out. It just takes time.

John McGraw

They will move with a big enough hammer! They have large diameter rollers in them, and have never had a set that I could not get to move with a little WD-40 and a BFH.



Regards, John McGraw

Mcmurb

As a fellow 60 owner turning my own wrench on projects just like this, your sharing of your project steps complete with pictures and text as you did is much appreciated. The project alone is hard enough, but to document it like you did is above and beyond and the favor is not lost at least by me.

Well done!

Bart McMurry

DZVette

Bart
Your welcome. I get a lot from here and I like to give some back where I can. Glad you find the info useful.

Bud,

I'm with John above, try some PB Blaster or Kroil if you have it and try to pry the frame back and forth a little at a time. See if you can get the penetrant up into the tracks. The tracks ride on the large rollers and the small ball bearings in the cages keep the assembly centered in the tracks. If you can get under the car you might shoot some penetrant onto the bottoms of the bolts in the nut plates as well.
As Betty said above, patience and persistence.
Dave Z

rich5962

For the internals of the tracks here is another reference as a additional pictorial to Dave's excellent document.........HERE

The above tracks on a '59 I worked on were seized up and I could not get them to move easily with repeated attempts of penetrants, pushing, etc.

When tracks are like this, I use a short 2x4 block in the front inner corners, and as John said , a really BIG BFH, and keep wacking at them to get them to move forward. That's really the only way to get them to move sometimes. Of course when the release handle is raised.

Rich