Power Driver Seat Stuck

[TheGTkid]

I have searched the site yes, this is a repeat. I am curious, has anyone else had this problem? I moved my seat as far forward yesterday for some cleaning and now it is stuck all the way forward. You cannot hand the hazard of driving it, but I am particularly curious as to what you may have done to fix it, or if you have ever had the issue. 2002 Ex XLT 4.0l
It is jammed up or something, either way last night I just completely removed the seat, if enough people have this issue I will document my plan of fixing it and post it on here. Through research I came to this as a possible way for fixing it!
http://answers.edmunds.com/question...moved-Now-stuck-won-back-What-I-do-17445.aspx
"Its very common with power seats in Ford Explorers heres a easy fix without removing the seat.
Raise the seat as high as it can go. Look under the seat from the front you will see two long threaded rods. Move it back and forth and you will be able to tell which side is jammed. For me it was the one most toward the drivers door and it usually is always this one. Get a pliers on the rod and turn it clockwise to loosen it all it needs is a quarter of a turn to un jam it and your done. If its the other rod it will need to be turn counter clockwise. This should do the trick. From SA93"

 

[roush9799]

Mine sort of sticks midway between forward and back. If I'm in it and help it along it moves fine.

 

[TheGTkid]

Fixed it just the way that guy said so.... Except its much easier with the seat out, just reach in there with some channel lock pliers and turn the long threaded rods and it frees right up!

 

[Schmoopie11]

ok so how do you fix a drivers seat that is stuck at highest height? the driver seat won't go down any ideas?

 

[mbed]

I have searched the site yes, this is a repeat. I am curious, has anyone else had this problem? I moved my seat as far forward yesterday for some cleaning and now it is stuck all the way forward. You cannot hand the hazard of driving it, but I am particularly curious as to what you may have done to fix it, or if you have ever had the issue. 2002 Ex XLT 4.0l
It is jammed up or something, either way last night I just completely removed the seat, if enough people have this issue I will document my plan of fixing it and post it on here. Through research I came to this as a possible way for fixing it!
http://answers.edmunds.com/question...moved-Now-stuck-won-back-What-I-do-17445.aspx
"Its very common with power seats in Ford Explorers heres a easy fix without removing the seat.
Raise the seat as high as it can go. Look under the seat from the front you will see two long threaded rods. Move it back and forth and you will be able to tell which side is jammed. For me it was the one most toward the drivers door and it usually is always this one. Get a pliers on the rod and turn it clockwise to loosen it all it needs is a quarter of a turn to un jam it and your done. If its the other rod it will need to be turn counter clockwise. This should do the trick. From SA93"

moved mine completely forward where it got stuck...motor had life but tracks no movement...read whole thread. It is true, just gently reach onto one or both of the main threaded drive screws with a channel lock or other similar device (don't have to even grab it too strongly) and rotate the shaft either way about 1/32 of a turn or so...one way will resist and the other way will release it. It seems the motor jams the nut to the end of the shaft and doesn't have enough torque to free it when going in opposite direction. Hope this helps!

 

[Schmoopie11]

mine actually fixed itself. about a week later it started working again. I suspect that I have some wiring that is shorting in my explorer because this is not the only strange thing that happens on occasion

 

[mbed]

yeah, my 02 has about 230k and does all types of strange things, most often the gauges all pin hard right for about a second or so, drop down to zero and then resume normal operation...odd. Also, I recently did body mounts 2 and 3 on both sides. Drove to get gas, transmission would not down shift! got gas, drove home, completely normal transmission response...

 

[myf16]

My driver's seat moves normally when the temperature is cold (below 70 or so inside the car). Park the Explorer in the sun and the seat will not move fore and aft no matter where in the range it is starting from.

All the other motions are normal regardless of temperature.

I bought a can of freeze spray (for electronics) but that did not help.

Any ideas as to the cause or fix?

 

[Delwebb]

I have searched the site yes, this is a repeat. I am curious, has anyone else had this problem? I moved my seat as far forward yesterday for some cleaning and now it is stuck all the way forward. You cannot hand the hazard of driving it, but I am particularly curious as to what you may have done to fix it, or if you have ever had the issue. 2002 Ex XLT 4.0l
It is jammed up or something, either way last night I just completely removed the seat, if enough people have this issue I will document my plan of fixing it and post it on here. Through research I came to this as a possible way for fixing it!
http://answers.edmunds.com/question...moved-Now-stuck-won-back-What-I-do-17445.aspx
"Its very common with power seats in Ford Explorers heres a easy fix without removing the seat.
Raise the seat as high as it can go. Look under the seat from the front you will see two long threaded rods. Move it back and forth and you will be able to tell which side is jammed. For me it was the one most toward the drivers door and it usually is always this one. Get a pliers on the rod and turn it clockwise to loosen it all it needs is a quarter of a turn to un jam it and your done. If its the other rod it will need to be turn counter clockwise. This should do the trick. From SA93"

Thankyou, thank you. It worked. At least we got to move the seat up. It’s not as fluent as I would like it but at least it’s moving. Thank you for sharing this vital information.

 

[Logiquol]

Just to add to this conversation. Had a similar situation where a mechanic moved the seat all the forward and it would not go back. The fuse was blown, so likely a short somewhere. What I did was, I grabbed a new fuse, put it in and with all of my strength pushed on the seat and then hit the knob to move it backwards. It seemed liked me man handling this poor seat helped it enough to overcome the shorting effect.

Anyways word of warning, it can be dangerous for your fuse box / electrical to keep trying this. I did blow several fuses before finally getting ticked off enough that hulk mode kicked in and that seemed to do the trick. THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO FIX THIS, but it does work in a pinch. I'm a bigger dude and literally could not drive my car home so I had to do this. Hopefully it can help someone else out for a short term fix.