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Old 09-30-02, 07:14 PM
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Unhappy Seat help

When I brake fairly hard my drivers seat slides forward on its tracks. What causes this? I need to fix this because I'm taking the car to a road course oct. 12th. I don't need my seat sliding forward on me breakin for a corner lol.
Old 09-30-02, 08:49 PM
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Your probably going to have to remove the seat and look over the mechanism... It could be broken.
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hrmm..... may have to put a cable on it to hold it for the time being..
Old 10-01-02, 06:29 AM
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sounds like your spring that keeps the mechanism tight has come loose. you might be able to fix it without taking the seat out. the spring attaches in the front.
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That's a neat trick.....Could fake out your passenger, eh?

Anyhoo, take the seat out. Four bolts, one in each rail corner. Take a look at the bottom....Cheez, not her seat bottom, the bottom of the car seat, dummy...
Note that there's a mechinism that rocks up and down, and meshes with the slide rail. There should be a wire that crosses the from one frame rail to the other so that both mechinisms release at the same time. Bet yuh the wire is either broke or come undone....If not, then clean and lubricate....

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Good to hear from ya Cowboy!

Last time we heard from ya, Silver was for sale.
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I was wondering about the seat too. Thanks Denny, yeehaw!
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On mine, it never does this, but the handle will sometimes stick in the up position if i don't manually push it down, so if its not engaging, that coule be your problem.
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Sounds like my car seat. I had to take it out and tighten all of the bolts, so try taking it out and see what happens.
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