Hi Dave. The seat tracks on my car were rusted solid prior to rework. It was not necessary to dissassemble them before sandblasting. They came out great. I couldn't believe it. This was what I did: Free the motion with a hammer (mine were REALLY rusty) Sandblast, inside and out, fully assembled. Slide the sliding part back and forth until the tracks stopped sounding gritty. This, as a side effect, cleaned the rust off the balls and off the inside of the track, which were also rusty on my car's seat tracks. Paint, making a halfhearted effort not to deliberately paint the inside of the track. Lubricate the interior with synthetic grease. That was that. They move like new, probably better. I suppose the residue of abrasive might shorten the life of the tracks by a few thousand cycles, but I don't intend to subject my seat tracks to the tens of thousands of cycles needed to find out. One might try to clean out the last residues of abrasive, but I didn't bother. I don't feel it matters. >From my experience, taking apart the seat tracks prior to sandblasting sounds like a good idea that sounds like a good idea. Rick Gendreau 11472 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle <dswingle@xxxx>" <dswingle@xxxx> wrote: > Has anyone taken the seat tracks completely apart? I want to take > them apart and clean/repaint. I have the tracks off the seat, but I > want to take the runners apart prior to sandblasting/painting. Since > there appear to be a couple of ball bearings inside the track, > sandblasting without disassembly would not seem to be a good thing. I > can see that I need to drill out a couple of stamped spots, but am > wondering what anyone may have done to put them back together.