Power Front Seat No Werkie

[joesgt281]

97 GT.
It wants to work, but somethings wrong (stripped gear maybe?).
It works okay going back but not forward.
I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I go to the trouble of yanking the seat out.
Any others have this same problem on the SN95's?

 

[four six]

Broken track?

 

[Bolt on 5.0]

yeh if the track goes back but not forward and makes the clicking noise when trying to move forward, its most likley going to be the track itself. Get a price on the track first, expect to pay big bucks, and some of them are a little tricky.

 

[joesgt281]

see, this has already been worthwhile....i didn't even know it had a rack!

so i assume from that, there must be a pinion gear too? i'll be sure to check that as well.

 

[Bolt on 5.0]

huh?

 

[joesgt281]

huh?

not having seen it yet, i am envisioning a motor turning a pinion gear (or could be a worm gear i guess) that moves the rack, like a "rack and pinion" steering system works.

so if there's a "gear" problem, i imagine it could be either with the rack or the pinion.

but from talking to others, everybody seems to be pointing to the rack as being the problem.

 

[architecthec]

Rack track, it's all the same. Parts is parts. The seat is easy to pull out....four bolts and the electrical connection (power seat). Once it is out I doubt that it is repairable short of replacing the rack/track/bracket/stripped gear. I'm new to the forum. I took some photos of the tracks on a 97 Cobra seat. Long worm gear. The motor appears to be strapped down. If your kucky it could be loose. How do I attach or send photos?

 

[joesgt281]

Rack track, it's all the same. Parts is parts. The seat is easy to pull out....four bolts and the electrical connection (power seat). Once it is out I doubt that it is repairable short of replacing the rack/track/bracket/stripped gear. I'm new to the forum. I took some photos of the tracks on a 97 Cobra seat. Long worm gear. The motor appears to be strapped down. If your kucky it could be loose. How do I attach or send photos?

the only way i know to post pics is to upload them to a site that will host them for you, like mustangmods.com, then linking to them.
if you'll email them to me, i can do that and will post them here.
[email protected]
thanks

 

[Bolt on 5.0]

AT the dealer all the were able to get was the whole track assembly. Not even just a motor for the track seperatly. Sucks but thats what I have dealt with. They did use shims for the navigators because the tracks used to get stuck. It was a whole procedure though.