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, [email protected] 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
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