Carpet Trouble Seats
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Heel & Toe
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Carpet Trouble Seats
So i am ripping the carpet out today and ran into some trouble with the seats. I push the lever to move the seats forward but they will not budge. I got the two front bolts out but cannot get at the rear ones. I tried to get some lube on the rails but they are hard to access. Do I need to remove the two bolts with the large phillips heads in the base of the seats? How can I get those dang seats to move forward?
Team Owner
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From: Crossville TN
Sit your butt in the seat, pull the release lever so the rail is not locked, then pull yourself forward with your feet as hard as you can. Release the lever and you will be locked in the front position. Logic, my boy...you need logic. 
{...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
{...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
Race Director
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From: Lenoir City Tennessee
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I agree. Set in the seat and work it forward and back to get the seat to move for you. When you do get the seats out it sounds like you need to get the tracks off the seats and clean that old hardened grease out of the tracks.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2001
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From: TEXAS - you mean there are other states?
Sit your butt in the seat, pull the release lever so the rail is not locked, then pull yourself forward with your feet as hard as you can. Release the lever and you will be locked in the front position. Logic, my boy...you need logic. {...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
{...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2006
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From: Round Rock Texas
Sit your butt in the seat, pull the release lever so the rail is not locked, then pull yourself forward with your feet as hard as you can. Release the lever and you will be locked in the front position. Logic, my boy...you need logic. {...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
{...and momentum... you know; the mass of the a$$.....}
Pro
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Usa
So i am ripping the carpet out today and ran into some trouble with the seats. I push the lever to move the seats forward but they will not budge. I got the two front bolts out but cannot get at the rear ones. I tried to get some lube on the rails but they are hard to access. Do I need to remove the two bolts with the large phillips heads in the base of the seats? How can I get those dang seats to move forward?
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2010
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From: Kinston, NC
Not sure what that lever thing is you're talking about, but you just need to move the little center toggle **** forward... the seat will stop moving when it has reached the forward stop.... right..?
Team Owner
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From: Crossville TN
If you are not sitting in it, the seat will stop moving when the front of the bottom cushion hits the tranny console...way before it locks in the front position. That's why he can't get to the back bolts. 
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