Seat rails

The wheels inside can get "flat spots" on them.

You might think about making some new rollers (or purchasing, but I don't know which of our great vendors has the inner wheels) to make them roll more smoothly.  Not hard to do on a lathe.

Rocky

rocky posted:

The wheels inside can get "flat spots" on them.

You might think about making some new rollers (or purchasing, but I don't know which of our great vendors has the inner wheels) to make them roll more smoothly.  Not hard to do on a lathe.

Rocky

 

That's what I did

You may get more responses if you put this in the appropriate "Technical Information Forum"

Good thinking rookie mistake.

 Thanks 

And welcome to the forum!

When I rebuild mine this year I made new rollers from a Delrin rod & lubed them  good with some odor free lithium grease. Working great so far. 

To explain, stock rollers were steel, coated with rubber. The rubber flat-spots and skids, causing  even more flat spotting. About any hard material will work for rollers. Too-soft plastic will also flat-spot, and metal rollers of any kind in an unused passenger seat will 'click' against the steel rails, which some owners of well-muffled cars find annoying.  I wouldn't grease or lube the rollers: it attracts dirt which will interfere with the rolling.

Finally, do NOT discard the square spacers at each end of the rails. Those raise the rails up enough to clear the carpet. If you don't use them, tightening down the rails directly on the carpet will bend the bottom rail on each end, causing the two parts of the rails to not slide easily. If you really need that extra 1/2" or so of height from the spacers, cut slots in the carpet so the rails lay flat against the steel floor when bolted down tightly. Ferrari seats (maybe others, too) don't use rollers- they use flat sliders with strips of poly in between. They also bend without carpet spacers.