Power Seat stuck all the way back

take out the front bolts, tip the seat back and pull as much of the seat stuffing out of the tracks and screw drive as you can reach. You only need enough to get the seat to move once so you can take it out and clean it up.

First off, No breaks for you :lol:.

What I have been doing in the pick and pull, is pulling the two front bolts out lifting up on the seat (probably bending the back tabs a little) and then unplugging the seat power. Then I apply power to the switch. However you may not have access to the switches… There should be a way to remove some of the plastic surrounds to gain access to the switch's wires. Or you can try to remove the back of the seat and apply power from there. Damn, I wish I would have saved my OE seats for these types of questions. I'll rip into the first one I see at the pick an pull. (as long as it is not easily savable)

And yea^ what he said!

nutsaq, you say that there is a common occurrence of seat padding and such falling into the threaded rod and the tracks that could cause the motor to slow down and halt if left there?

I'm not sure if I can even push or tilt the seat back… it's ALL the way back. :-( I'll give it a shot. thanks! I didn't wanna force the seat back because I figured I might break the tabs, but I'm going to give it a shot!

Jason, I'm going to add a severe rake to my S30 so that you can't fit in it! HA! and I'm going to replace the passenger seat with a collection of BOSE audio components and plumb some wires to the engine bay, where they will be hooked up to a high quality microphone, right beside the ITB's.

WHATS THAT… I CAN'T HEAR YOU AT 8000 RPM.


Ok, so if I can remove the plug for the motor, I could probably just use a spare battery, maybe a 9v or a car battery and have it go forward enough. Hopefully it shows that it's just the switch and not the motor. In that case, I would be able to access that remaining bolt for the switch panel too if I can bend it back.

I'll then take the seat out, clean up the bottomo completely, and probably take out the pass seat too and clean under there. Never drove the car long enough to care to give it a clean up.

I had this same problem happen to me on a 86 NA I had in 06. Drove me nuts for several days. I tried everything but I couldn't get to the bolts at all. I had removed a set of leather seats from a parts car so I knew they worked. I had to use the motors and switchs to move them back and forth for removal. But after installing them, I did the rear bolts first. Then I moved the seat back and did the fronts. I got in to drive it and the seats wouldn't go forward again. I removed the side panels and used contact cleaner on the switches, nothing. I went nuts tracking down relays and fuses, etc. Relays are above the fuse panel down by the driver left foot. I determined that I had power by checking thevoltage at the harness under the seat with a piece of wiring with the connector removed from a parts car. I hooked a battery direct to the harness still nothing. I ended up taking it to a auto upolstry shop and they pulled the seat bottom apart and cleaned the motor and worm drive. Cost me $79 for the repair. Now whenever I pull power seats I always clean the track, worm drive gears and rods and spray the motor out with LDS contact cleaner and then blow out with computer cleaning canned air since I don't have an air compressor.

so you never actually pulled the seats off? gaaahd damn :-(

The shop removed the seat cover to get it out and then repaired it. I didn't get a play by play of how they did it. I was in a hurry as I had the car sold already.

:-(

damnz. i guess i'll see what I can do tonight if i'm not tired when I leave work.

thnx for tips

Shoot I always have my seat all the way back. That's the only way I am comfortable :nanan?re Im 1/2 italian but im 6'2 haha must be my german half where i got the height…

Success!
Motor gets power.
Motor moves.
Motor is stuck.
so the seat is gettin' screwed! (literally).

My landlord is a trusty mechanic/techinician and he has tiny hands so he actually took the entire drive out from under the seat in 30 minutes without lifting the seat out.

8)

Careless wrote: My landlord is a trusty mechanic/techinician and he has tiny hands so he actually took the entire drive out from under the seat in 30 minutes without lifting the seat out.

8)

I did find a tube of "warm sensations" ky jelly in the seat-back compartment when I brought the car home… hmmmmm. maybe I can have heated seats!

LOLOL J/K… I gave the stuff to the other tennant in the house. I think he had fun using it, what do you think, Jason? did she sound pleased? ::lol

I have every type of grease in my garage, that's why I'm wondering which to use. And yes, I had to explain to a friend that "grease is grease" is not a good way to look at things, especially when you're using wheel bearing grease to seal an electrical connector. It could be non-conductive, but why take the chance? Die-electric grease is 2 bucks a tube anyway.

I was cleaning the tiliting mechanism screw drive (smaller one under middle bracket), and I noticed they used High-tack Moly Grease on the screw drive. The tracks seemed to have what looked like White lithium or just regular brown lithium grease. And I'd like to mention that the pivot points for the tilting mechanism feel stiff, but if you actually force them abit, they will loosen… That's a good time to shove a pick in there and poke out the coconut fibres that got stuck in there, and spray some degreaser in there before using a solvent brush to shove some more grease in there.


Thanks everyone for le help.

LMAO, I kind of wish that he would have passed her around… She sounded cute? That couldn't have happened at a worse time, I was just falling asleep… Then Girl O face "Yeeeeaaa Ooooohhhh, right there…" Me "WTF, Dammit hurry up so I can go to sleep."

LOL i felt like a bad host cause of that!

I mean, you had to drive 5 hours… Last thing you need is no sleep. I know how it is when you can't sleep you-- remember everything that kept you awake.

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