Power seat stuck all the way back.....any suggestions?

is the motor making any noise at all when you push the button?

Yeah, I get a click. I lifted it up from the front and douched the worm drive and slides with WD-40. I even applied pressure with a breaker bar while trying to slide in either direction.

I don't know what else but you probably saw this:
http://z31performance.com/showthread…wer+seat+stuck

and this

http://z31performance.com/showthread…wer+seat+stuck

thought I posted this earlier, and maybe it didn't show up. this is from my 87 FSM on body section of seats; I think those bolts can be reached by lifting the vinyl skirt where the switch is located.

For the motor after a painful trying to troubleshoot the switch, the power supply which were both good, I removed the motor and the brushes were worn to about nothing. Cleaned and reinstalled and it worked again for maybe at least a little while.



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Thanks for links Rick, I had found them before. Seems to be the tactic I'll be going with....

Greg ill bet the track got misaligned had the same problem on a range rover I know its not a z but if the mechanism is the same that might be it
their was a plug holding the drive gear to the worm gear that came out so one track moved and the other didnt witch misaligned the track.

I got it squared away. Chris: it wasn't quite that but I did have realign the tracks after disassembly, which did prove to be rather challenging. Basically had to destroy the tilt mechanism to get the seat out. Once out I disassembled the worm gears and cleaned all the coconut fibers out of the mechanism, lubed and re-installed. Monumental pain in the ass, would not look forward to doing this again. The power seats were like twice as heavy as a manual seat and unnecessarily complicated, is that really something that was needed in a sports coupe in the 80's? (or 90's, 00's, etc)