seats sliding
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yes, my drivers side does it as well. There is a post somewhere on here look under "rocking seat" seat movement... seat play...etc.... you will find it. Someone even made a webpage of directions on how to fix it. It's not superhard but I think it looks like a few hour job to remove the seat and disassemble the tracks and make these spacers... I personally wonder if you could liquid steel some horshoe washers in the gap as the directions show to get the play out of the seats. Here is the link: http://robbs.js-x.com/ken/vette1/
Last edited by ricks98vette; Jun 22, 2006 at 11:06 PM.
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Seat Slide Fix
I had the same problem. My dealer wanted 1k per seat to fix them. I did both in one hour.
Four bolts and one plug, and the seat is out.
There are two slides, driven by one motor, via flexible shafts. They are aligned equally, front and back. The trick is to offset them by the amount of slop in the seat, mine were about 3/16".
On the front corners of the seats, there are right angle adapters for the flexible shafts held on by 2 screws. Remove one. Now you can turn the shaft for the slide on that side by hand. With a carpenter's square, you can easily see the offset of the slides. It doesn't matter which one you offset or which direction. One will hold the seat forward and the other aft.
Reinstall the seats, and you are done.
Four bolts and one plug, and the seat is out.
There are two slides, driven by one motor, via flexible shafts. They are aligned equally, front and back. The trick is to offset them by the amount of slop in the seat, mine were about 3/16".
On the front corners of the seats, there are right angle adapters for the flexible shafts held on by 2 screws. Remove one. Now you can turn the shaft for the slide on that side by hand. With a carpenter's square, you can easily see the offset of the slides. It doesn't matter which one you offset or which direction. One will hold the seat forward and the other aft.
Reinstall the seats, and you are done.
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St. Jude Donor '06
with both of the guys above! The first solution is gaurenteed to work but it takes forever to get the white ***** out of the rail. I abandoned this method and optioned for the second solution. I did it on both of my seats (i turned one of the flex shaft 2 full turns), and it turned out great! HOWEVER, my seats didnt rock that much (maybe 1/4") my buddy has a 2000 vert and his passenger seat rocked about 1/2". I turned the inboard flex shaft 2 full turns and although it took some of the slop out, it didnt remove it completely. Unfortunately, we didnt have time to take the seat back out to turn the shafts a few more turns.The second method takes abou 10 minutes (including removing the seat and reinstalling it completely)
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From: Just North of Buffalo NY
Originally Posted by Stealthy4
with both of the guys above! The first solution is gaurenteed to work but it takes forever to get the white ***** out of the rail. I abandoned this method and optioned for the second solution. I did it on both of my seats (i turned one of the flex shaft 2 full turns), and it turned out great! HOWEVER, my seats didnt rock that much (maybe 1/4") my buddy has a 2000 vert and his passenger seat rocked about 1/2". I turned the inboard flex shaft 2 full turns and although it took some of the slop out, it didnt remove it completely. Unfortunately, we didnt have time to take the seat back out to turn the shafts a few more turns.The second method takes abou 10 minutes (including removing the seat and reinstalling it completely)
Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by OUR97
Removing the white ***** is not necessary. The other method works just fine and if you have the whole seat apart, removing the flex shaft is easier.
either way, just removing the small motor from the flex shaft and putting a few turns on one rail works great.
Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by ebubman
the driver's seat in our y2k rocks slightly. wish i had the cajones to try this. ???? bub
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From: Melburne FL
Originally Posted by Stealthy4
Just hold out for a few more days. my buddy is comingback over with his 2000 and ill fix it the rest of the way. When i do, ill take pics so you can do it yourself. The fix requires a couple of torx screw drivers but those are fairly common
thanks
Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '06
Basically the quick mod allows you to offset the two tracks from one another by twisting one of the flex shafts (which is connected to the threaded rod). There were some questions about binding tracks but general consensus was that its OK as long as you dont turn the flex shaft too many times. Heres the link...
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...=easy+seat+fix
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...=easy+seat+fix
