[Spits] Seat rails

[Berger Bob]

This is essentially what I have done, except I hammered the dimples  
flat until the rollers would come out.  the rollers and o-rings on the  
1st seat look fine and will be reused.

Berger Bob
78 Spitfire
St. Louis, MO

On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:31 PM, joe at ados.net wrote:

> On my '73, I was repairing some minor rust in the floors last winter  
> and decided to take on that
> task while I was at it.  There is a little dimple in the metal rails  
> that keeps them from sliding
> apart completely.  I just took a dremel tool and ground down the  
> dimple until the two tracks would
> slide apart.  There are a couple little rollers in there with what  
> looks like o-rings on them.  I
> cleaned them well with a wire brush and reassembled them with a  
> liberal coating of grease.  They
> move much better than they ever did before.
>
> I do recall however that simply moving the almost completely seized  
> up tracks required liberal use
> a large hammer and some well placed wood blocks.  Be careful if you  
> need to do that not to bend the
> tracks or they won't move well when you're done.
>
> Joe Frakes