[DeTomaso] Seat Track Rebuild Kits or Alternative Seat Tracks

[Mike Drew]

Mike,

Clean up and salvage your existing seat tracks. Save the vendor tracks for people who aren’t fortunate enough to have any. 

You can strip them to bare metal and paint them to preserve them. The stock plastic wheels are junk and are probably square now. Carefully bend the retaining tabs down and separate the two halves of the track assemblies and replace the wheels. Hall sells metal wheels which work great but make an annoying clacking sound unless you drill a hole through the center and equip them with a small spring.  Larry Stock (plastics is my middle name) sells stock-style plastic rollers. I would hope they have greater longevity than the original ones?

Cheers!

Mike

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> On Oct 5, 2021, at 14:12, Mike & Elizabeth <mbefthomas2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    Does anyone carry a rebuild kit for the stock Pantera seat tracks and a
>   rebuild procedure?  Conversely, has anyone sourced seat tracks from a
>   different manufacturer for retrofit onto the Pantera?
> 
> 
>   I have the seat tracks out of 6328 and due to the repeated moisture I
>   managed to have in the cabin, the bottoms of the tracks are pretty
>   rusty and I know the rollers inside have to be pretty well trashed.
>   I'd like to stay with stock seat tracks as I've just finished drilling
>   holes in my new dropped floor pans based on the stock track length.
>   New seat tracks are available through one of our vendors but I'll end
>   up paying about $600 to replace all four, a bit too pricey at this
>   point.
> 
> 
>   6328's restoration is coming along nicely.  Finding a good bit of rust
>   in the rockers and at the bottom of the rear suspension towers, among
>   other chassis-area things.  Front cross member/radiator support box is
>   done and new lower valence (ala Johnny Woods) is installed.  Passengers
>   side done, now working through the driver's side rocker.  A few other
>   things then we'll epoxy and paint the bottom and put her on a dolly to
>   work the body and interior.
> 
> 
>   Thanks in advance:
> 
>   Mike Thomas
> 
>   Panteras Northwest
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