Front Seat Bottom Does Not Readily Relock Into the Track

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Front Seat Bottom Does Not Readily Relock Into the Track

Author: Subaru

NUMBER: 12-58-93

DATE: 02-16-93

APPLICABILITY:
ALL VEHICLES EXCEPT JUSTY

SUBJECT:
FRONT SEAT TRACKS

If you encounter a customer complaint of a front seat bottom which when adjusted does not readily re-lock into the left and right tracks simultaneously, the following procedure should remedy the condition.

1) Loosen, but do not remove, all five (5) mounting bolts for the seat tracks. (Refer to Figure 1.)
2) Slide the seat all the way to the rear. Make sure the lock plate pawls are completely and equally inserted into the corresponding holes in both the inboard and outboard seat rails.
3) Tighten bolts 1 and 2, in that order, to the required torque. (Refer to Figure 1.)
Driver's Seat

The passenger seat is reversed inner vs. outer.

4) Slide the seat all the way to the front. Make sure the lock plate pawls are completely and equally inserted into the corresponding holes in the inboard and outboard seat rails.
5) Tighten bolts 3, 4 and 5, in that order, to the required torque. (Refer to Figure 1.)
6) Make sure the seat now works properly. If it does not, then proceed onto the next procedure.

Some vehicles may require a forward adjustment of an individual rail to align the pawls. In order to do this, another washer (P/N 903100157 or equivalent, 25.5 O.D. x 10.5 I.D. x 4 mm thick) will be required.

1) Slide the seat forward and back until one rail does not engage properly. Determine which rail's lock plate pawls have not engaged. In most cases, this will be the outboard rail.
2) Look closely at the lock plate pawls and the slide rail to determine whether the slide rail is misaligned by being too far forward or by being too far towards the rear of the vehicle. (Refer to Figure 2.)

This drawing shows a slide rail that is misaligned towards the rear of the vehicle.

3) If the outboard slide rail is too far to the rear of the vehicle, adjust forward as follows:
.....a) Loosen bolt 4. (See Figure 1.)
.....b) Remove bolt 2. (See Figure 1.)
.....c) Insert a washer between the slide rail bracket and the floor as shown in drawing. (Refer to Figure 3.)
.....d) Secure bolts 2 and 4 to the proper torque in that order.
.....e) Make sure that the lock pawls now engage properly.

4) If the slide rail is too far toward the front of the vehicle, adjust the opposite rail forward to match as follows:
.....a) Loosen bolts 3 and 5. (See Figure 1.)
.....b) Remove bolt 1.
.....c) Insert a washer between the slide rail bracket and the floor. (Refer to Figure 3.)
.....d) Secure bolts 1, 3, and 5 to the proper torque, in that order.
.....e) Make sure that the lock pawls now engage properly.

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