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Old 10-20-2021, 09:05 PM
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Pulling out the seats for a tear down.
But I disconnected the main harness in prep for pull drivetrain.
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Passenger seat is all the way back. I don't have power going to the seat. Is there a manual way to crank them forward? I can't get access to the rear post nuts.
is my only option to run 12v to the harness and pray the seats works properly and moves I power it.

Any ideas appreciated

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That is the only way to do it. They cannot manually be moved
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I would recommend you check the Factory Service Manual. I had a seat mechanism go bad on a GM car (not a Corvette) and there was a procedure to move the seat to get at the rear bolts. The procedure was to disconnect one of the drive cables, put it in a cordless drill, and move the seat forward. Not sure if that is possible in the Corvette, but there must be a way.
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Originally Posted by Skyking1992
I would recommend you check the Factory Service Manual. I had a seat mechanism go bad on a GM car (not a Corvette) and there was a procedure to move the seat to get at the rear bolts. The procedure was to disconnect one of the drive cables, put it in a cordless drill, and move the seat forward. Not sure if that is possible in the Corvette, but there must be a way.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Old 10-21-2021, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Skyking1992
I would recommend you check the Factory Service Manual. I had a seat mechanism go bad on a GM car (not a Corvette) and there was a procedure to move the seat to get at the rear bolts. The procedure was to disconnect one of the drive cables, put it in a cordless drill, and move the seat forward. Not sure if that is possible in the Corvette, but there must be a way.
I've just finished up a project of mounting a seat to the oem power seat track and I don't see how this would work easily on the corvette seat track. You would have to disassemble in place the worm gear on both sides of the track.
I think you can either fold the seat forward and jam your hand behind the seat with a 15mm wrench and loosen the nuts a 1/8 of a turn at a time
or you can try to remove the 4 torx screws (2 on each side) underneath the rails holding the rails to the forward/back lead screws and slide the seat forward.




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Or you can re-attach the battery and remember not to do that again.

Don't ask...
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Originally Posted by johnson-rod
Or you can re-attach the battery and remember not to do that again.

Don't ask...
not that simple, battery, wires, fuse block all pulled

But I figured it out

Got a 14v drill battery, fed power and it moved



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