front seat gear swap (Broken Seat/Missing Cap Issue, pt. 2) (1 Viewer)

[irwinsg]

This is what I foundi think those are the washers inside the gear housing, I saw them, they look ok. Where I'm stuck is the washers on the outside, on the shaft itself. The worm gear drives the little white plastic gear, that gear turns the shaft, the shaft moves the seat back and forth. There are washers on the shaft, upstream and downstream of the gears, outside of the white housing. They both have slightly different specs on their ID.

 

[ppc]

That all looks proper to me. The two washers on each side of the gear case keep the gear floating a slight amount on the shaft.

 

[irwinsg]

That all looks proper to me. The two washers on each side of the gear case keep the gear floating a slight amount on the shaft.

Makes sense. I need a set for the drivers side, only have them for passenger side. I fabbed one up out of an old washer with a drill and a set of offsets but it's a mess (see second pic). Does anyone have any idea what the sizes or part numbers are?

 

[concretejungle]

but my question is how do you get the little trim plate on the front, back on when the two little screws are located below the cushion almost as if you need a flexible screw driver?!

 

[irwinsg]

but my question is how do you get the little trim plate on the front, back on when the two little screws are located below the cushion almost as if you need a flexible screw driver?!

Got to tilt the seat all the way up at the front, then tilt the back forward before you unplug it.

 

[CCRider]

So I just swapped out the gears and all was well until.....I reconnected the electrical. Push the "lever" forward to move the seat forward and it moves back. Pushing it back moved it forward. WTF? Of course I checked the connector. Any ideas?

 

[nakman]

So I just swapped out the gears and all was well until.....I reconnected the electrical. Push the "lever" forward to move the seat forward and it moves back. Pushing it back moved it forward. WTF? Of course I checked the connector. Any ideas?

I haven't heard of this one before.. did you figure it out?


Reason I'm back on this thread is I was doing another seat repair today on a customer's rig... and when I went to install the driver seat I noticed an issue with the bolt hole alignment in the floor. I've seen this before and have always cautioned folks to cycle the seat back & forth before tightening anything down, just to make sure the seat itself isn't causing the slide mechanism to be under any excessive load. Well in this case, I had to yank on the leg with just about all I had to get the bolt line up. Without the bolt, and it's off by a good 10mm... here's a pic:

My theory is that at some point in this seat's life, someone thought it was a good idea to sit on it on the garage floor... and/or maybe it got dropped a little bit in the process. But when this bolt was in place, the newly repaired seat would travel forward, but bind up instantly going backwards... if I took that bolt out it would run in both directions. So the obvious solution is to either try to bend that leg back to where it should be, or just waller out that hole... we went for option B.

Literally pushing sideways with the step drill, pretending it's an end mill... but in a hot minute that hole was much larger than it was before, and the bolt could be installed by hand.

And then all 4 bolts could then be tightened, and the seat operates again in both directions. I'm not sure if that's been documented before, so there you go.


edit: I also made a quick video of our new press tool...

 

[CCRider]

I haven't heard of this one before.. did you figure it out?

@nakman Yea, I figured it out.....Turns out that the entire gear mechanism can be installed backwards (L&R). I didn't even think about that when I reinstalled it. Chalk another one up to trial and error

Reason I'm back on this thread is I was doing another seat repair today on a customer's rig... and when I went to install the driver seat I noticed an issue with the bolt hole alignment in the floor. I've seen this before and have always cautioned folks to cycle the seat back & forth before tightening anything down, just to make sure the seat itself isn't causing the slide mechanism to be under any excessive load. Well in this case, I had to yank on the leg with just about all I had to get the bolt line up. Without the bolt, and it's off by a good 10mm... here's a pic:

Literally pushing sideways with the step drill, pretending it's an end mill... but in a hot minute that hole was much larger than it was before, and the bolt could be installed by hand.
And then all 4 bolts could then be tightened, and the seat operates again in both directions. I'm not sure if that's been documented before, so there you go.

edit: I also made a quick video of our new press tool...

My theory is that at some point in this seat's life, someone thought it was a good idea to sit on it on the garage floor... and/or maybe it got dropped a little bit in the process. But when this bolt was in place, the newly repaired seat would travel forward, but bind up instantly going backwards... if I took that bolt out it would run in both directions. So the obvious solution is to either try to bend that leg back to where it should be, or just waller out that hole... we went for option B.

Option B.....good choice!