power seat track

pete3323 · Post by **pete3323** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:14 pm

What year power seat tracks are the same as the '93? Thanks.

Mike S. · Post by **Mike S.** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:23 am

I've used '94-'98 tracks for parts from the U-pull places.

-MJS

pete3323 · Post by **pete3323** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:17 pm

Do you know if the whole track would work?

Mike S. · Post by **Mike S.** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:29 pm

pete3323 wrote:Do you know if the whole track would work?

I believe it will, though I've only scavenged them for parts. The power tracks in these cars are almost as junky as the CD players, the plastic gears strip, and the motors get weak for no known reason. You can take the motors apart, everything inside looks mint and nothing overheated, and they still get too weak to move the seat.

So Whenever I see a '94-'98 in the yard with the power seat, I pull the track apart, get whatever good gears are there, and add them to the collection. Every track I've taken apart has at least one problem, so I wouldn't recommend buying a whole track and hoping it will work well as installed, buy them for parts instead if they are cheap enough at the pick'n'pull. But you might get lucky and find one that is still all good. If you do take yours apart to fix it, remove the factory gook from the gear boxes and replace it with white lithium grease.

-MJS

pete3323 · Post by **pete3323** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:44 pm

Are the motors easily replaced? What i need is the up/down motor. I've never taken one apart but the seat is out of the car now.

St8-E · Post by **St8-E** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:08 pm

My driver side seat motor was in the fritz also...I bought new motors/shaft from these guys:

http://www.2men1garage.com/

It takes a little bit of modification to the seat track (have to cut out a very small tab for the bigger gear...here is a tutorial from Mustang Monthly:

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/techartic ... index.html

Hope this helps...I got the forward and back motor and new shaft and has worked flawlessly since...

I think the issue is that ford used plastic gears that broke and thus binded up, this in turn caused the motors to work harder than designed and crap the bed...these ones form 2men1garage are stronger and I believe the gears are metal instead of plastic...

As far as ease of install...once you get the track off the bottom of the seat (4 bolts) everything is right there and pretty easy...

pete3323 · Post by **pete3323** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:28 am

Thanks for the links st8. If i can't find something at the pick a part i will get in touch with them. Does anyone know if there is some way to remove a power seat that is all the way back. Every time i find one, i can't get the rear bolts because the seat is too far back. Is there a trick to this? I talking about at the junk yard so there is no power to move the seat.

Post by **1993cobra** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:58 am

take a battery jump box with some wire

Gecko86 · Post by **Gecko86** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:27 am

I am also having problems with the forward/back seat motor....really sluggish,could this just need lube? My seat goes forward but refuses to go back?Could this possibly be the POWER SEAT TRACK CONTROL SWITCH ?
So the parts from a 94-98 seat track will work? This is has been on my list for a while.Any help or information would
be appreciated.

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