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Offline beekppr

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Seat Track Rebuilding
« on: February 12, 2011 - 01:35:04 PM »
Anyone try rebuilding seat tracks before?


My SuperBee tracks are overdue. Driver side wasn't locking in place and felt broken. I took the driver one out and discovered the rivet which the adjuster arm pivots on fell out. The whole thing is so gunked up with dried grease, I decided to disassemble it. Now that it is apart, it looks pretty complicated.

I will be working on this today, stsrting with cleaning and bead blasting everything. I will get some pics on here when I can.

Does anyone have any advice or helpful hints on this? I hate to spend a bunch of time only to learn that I need special tools to get it all right or that I really need to pay a professional service to tackle this.




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Re: Seat Track Rebuilding
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2011 - 02:56:20 PM »
I took my '73's down to basic pieces, had the same hardened gunk. No problems other than some missing ball bearings which I acquired replacements at a bicycle shop and one roller was flat sided, that I rounded out best I could. Now they work like new.
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Re: Seat Track Rebuilding
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2011 - 10:24:00 PM »
Well I busted it all down, cleaned and bead blasted everything and reassembled. It wasn't as bad as I had expected. Seems pretty good now.