seat track cleaning/restoration

[Jeff]

My front seat tracks (1970) are not designed to be easily disassembled. They are full of dirt and old grease. The local machine shop has a "tank" that they use to remove grease from parts. Are there any plastic parts inside of the tracks? From what I can see, they are all metal and it should be safe to use the tank.

Assuming I can get these cleaned up, is white lithium grease good to use for lubrication on these?

Thx.

 

[saylor]

one mans opinion:

tank them you wont hurt them.

i think bearing grease would work just fine.


try not to die -

- saylor

 

[Jeff]

Thank you. Do you think bearing grease is better? I have both.

 

[saylor]

id strip em, POR15 em, and put em back in.

I'm not sure about which kind of grease, but what I was thinking is some grease that will not get runny in high summer temps... i know you are not here, but down here our car interiors get 140* ish during the summer...

 

[jct]

use moly grease, lithium grease will dry and harden with age

 

[MrMoparCHP]

I blasted the rusted areas, used some brake clean on the tracks till the slid freely (sand out), painted them, greased them up and installed them.


Alan

 

[tallhair]

I blasted the rusted areas, used some brake clean on the tracks till the slid freely (sand out), painted them, greased them up and installed them.


Alan

Did you take some pics? I have some seat tracks that i suspect might be C brackets and would like to compare

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Did you take some pics? I have some seat tracks that i suspect might be C brackets and would like to compare

I did but my server is offline right now.


Alan

 

[tallhair]

I did but my server is offline right now.


Alan

Thanks Alan. I have some that look like the pic you did post but would like to see more pics to properly compare. It's a bench seat right?

p.s. I'd like to see the pics anyway just to see them all nice and done

 

[Jeff]

Did you take some pics? I have some seat tracks that i suspect might be C brackets and would like to compare

Here are some more pics tallhair.

 

[tallhair]

Thanks Jeff