How do I tighten driver's seat
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Burning Brakes
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How do I tighten driver's seat
The driver’s seat in my Vette is becoming loose, rocking back and forth a little. How do I tighten it up and what tools do I need?
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!
Drifting
Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Las Cruces NM
Re: How do I tighten driver's seat (jay17)
It's probably either loose where the seat track it bolted to the floor boards or where the seat frame is bolted to the track.
To get to the bolts that hold the track to the floor, youll have to remove the 2 plastic trim pieces. They're held on by one of those little push in plastic fasteners. Take a flat blade screwdriver and pull the fastener out. Then the trim just pulls foward. You might have to wriggle it a little. There's a 13mm(if memory serves) bolt on each corner. Move the seat all the way back to access the fronts and all the way foward to get to the rears. You're gonna need to use at least a short extension on a couple of them to make life easier. Just tighten these bolts down.
The ones that hold the frame to the track are under the seat cushion(if it's the same as the earlier seats). To get to these, remove the bottom seat cushion. I don't know how to do it on the later seats, so you'll have to have somone with the newer style seats tell you how to do that. You'll see 4 more bolts there holding the seat to the frames.
Not sure how much diff the newer ones are from the old seats, but that should get you started.
Chris
To get to the bolts that hold the track to the floor, youll have to remove the 2 plastic trim pieces. They're held on by one of those little push in plastic fasteners. Take a flat blade screwdriver and pull the fastener out. Then the trim just pulls foward. You might have to wriggle it a little. There's a 13mm(if memory serves) bolt on each corner. Move the seat all the way back to access the fronts and all the way foward to get to the rears. You're gonna need to use at least a short extension on a couple of them to make life easier. Just tighten these bolts down.
The ones that hold the frame to the track are under the seat cushion(if it's the same as the earlier seats). To get to these, remove the bottom seat cushion. I don't know how to do it on the later seats, so you'll have to have somone with the newer style seats tell you how to do that. You'll see 4 more bolts there holding the seat to the frames.
Not sure how much diff the newer ones are from the old seats, but that should get you started.
Chris
Burning Brakes
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From: Bergen County NJ
Re: How do I tighten driver's seat (okinawa86vette)
:iagree: Chris is spot on.
Just remove the bottom cushion for the '94 seat to expose the bolts for the seatbase to frame. I believe that they are 13mm also.
If tightening all the bolts doesn't fix the problem, then take a close look at the seat frame. Mine had some welds that broke loose which resulted is slop in the mechanism and rocking of the seat.
Just remove the bottom cushion for the '94 seat to expose the bolts for the seatbase to frame. I believe that they are 13mm also.
If tightening all the bolts doesn't fix the problem, then take a close look at the seat frame. Mine had some welds that broke loose which resulted is slop in the mechanism and rocking of the seat.
