Power seat tracks misaligned

[Romo]

I have a '99 and removed the front seats for lubing and cleaning. I had the PS seat bolted down and moved the tracks forward to get access to the worm gear, but did not have the DS bolted down and the tracks became misaligned. Only the LH worm gear has moved. I re-installed to hopefully realign and the power FWD/REV only operates for about a 1/2" and will not operate any further. Note: the gears made a bit of a grinding noise at the end of the range when I first moved the DS. without realizing only 1 track was moving.
Any ideas as to what has "misaligned" now and how to resolve.

 

[awesomeissquid]

I was playing with my seats a few weeks back as one of my motors is bad. The motor to the far right of the picture is the one that controls the seat track. I have not done this before, but from looking at the mechanism I would disconnect the motor as a first step. The top side (in the picture) of the motor has the black connection. That is a somewhat flexible connection which you should be able to remove from the track connection and then get the other side off from the bottom side. From there, I believe the front of the track should have a nut which rotates the screw that adjusts the track. I would apply pressure to the track and rotate the nut to try to get it back aligned. Then reconnect the motor and test it out.

 

[Romo]

I was playing with my seats a few weeks back as one of my motors is bad. The motor to the far right of the picture is the one that controls the seat track. I have not done this before, but from looking at the mechanism I would disconnect the motor as a first step. The top side (in the picture) of the motor has the black connection. That is a somewhat flexible connection which you should be able to remove from the track connection and then get the other side off from the bottom side. From there, I believe the front of the track should have a nut which rotates the screw that adjusts the track. I would apply pressure to the track and rotate the nut to try to get it back aligned. Then reconnect the motor and test it out.

Kinda what I was thinking. Thanks, I'm gonna give that I try.

I was playing with my seats a few weeks back as one of my motors is bad. The motor to the far right of the picture is the one that controls the seat track. I have not done this before, but from looking at the mechanism I would disconnect the motor as a first step. The top side (in the picture) of the motor has the black connection. That is a somewhat flexible connection which you should be able to remove from the track connection and then get the other side off from the bottom side. From there, I believe the front of the track should have a nut which rotates the screw that adjusts the track. I would apply pressure to the track and rotate the nut to try to get it back aligned. Then reconnect the motor and test it out.

Yup, that worked just as you expected. THX Squid!

 

[awesomeissquid]

Sweet glad you got it back in place!