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Seat rail keeps sliding back

1.5K views 8 replies 6 participants last post by  KWin  
#1 ·
I’m using a pair of tecnocraft seats and I used the preexisting rails. Now it won’t stay locked in and keeps sliding back. Any thoughts?
 
#7 ·
I had to loosen the bolts holding the stock rails together to get my technocraft seat to fit. I grabbed two pieces of aluminum, you can use anything, and drilled holes at the right distance apart so I could size the rails outside of the car with the seat in it. Once every thing was together I tightened all the bolts back up and haven't had a problem since.
 
#8 ·
I cannot picture what you did. Taking the tecnocraft seats out was easy. I tried putting them back in with the seat rails attached and the holes do not line up. I could bend the rails slightly to align to the holes but when I lose alignment, the bolts end up at angle. The tolerances for the threads are tight and the bolt has to screwed in straight. I already stripped one of the front bolts. Finding an m8x22 bolt is not easy. Any thoughts on how to align holes?