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4th April 2010, 08:00 PM
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It's quite easy to do the Sierra ones. I have a pair of the cheapo seats from Midland wheels and was too tight to fork out for the runners so I modded the sierra ones in a couple of hours. They work a treat and only raise the seat about 1/2 inch above where it would be if it was solidly mounted.
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28th April 2010, 12:39 PM
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Just a quick update
I popped into the breakers on my way past yesterday.
Found a 1987 Metro Vanden Plas sitting in the yard .... Nabbed the seat runners .... Well , would have been rude not too  Being an Automatic, I noticed that it had quite a new oil cooler fitted, decent size too ... so had that as well  Anyways, back to the point of this post  For those of you folk using the Midland, Baby Mamba seats .... The Metro runners are a direct fit to the seat. The only alteration needed will be to the width & angle of the adjustment bar  Just thought it would be usefull information to some folk.
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28th April 2010, 01:30 PM
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Seeing as Ronnie has bumped this up, I got a free set of runners if a DAF 4tonne truck that the lads were changing the seat on.
Sounds like they might be dodgy coming of a truck but the runner bit unbolted from the mechanism that raises and lowers the seat. It is quite low and skinny. Might require a little fabrication to fit seats to but that’s what it’s all about! Cheers Ginge
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28th April 2010, 01:44 PM
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I stripped one side of my passenger side sierra runner the other nut. Lovely simple job - drill out 4 rivets and you've now got a runner that is only 25mm high
Other side is a bit more difficult as there are a few brackets welded to it. Hoping to get it on the mill tonight and machine the spot welds off.
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28th April 2010, 10:20 PM
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Grrr - what a frustrating evening. Noticed the other half of the seat runner was a bit tight, carried on spent an hour stripping all the bits off. Decided to have a look at why the runner was sticky - turns out one of the plastic roller carriages has broken and the roller can move around and jam
 Looks like I will be buying some seat runners after all!
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29th April 2010, 10:15 AM
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That's a bit of bad news there
 I hate it when things go pear shaped after spending a good deal of time on something  As they say, every cloud has a silver lining .... Pm sent to you mate
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