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Yesterday I mentioned I'd try to take images of the re-assembly procedure of the AD seat adjuster. And here they are, along with comments. My ball bearing arrived today, so I can fix the remaining adjuster. Whoopee.
First, make yourself a tool like the one shown in image 1 below. Any old screwdriver will work. Cut the end off and file or grind it even.
Now, when you get your adjuster apart (and believe me, this is the easy part), you'll have several parts to clean. A top half, a bottom half and two sets of bearing cages and rollers. Get the rust off and make these look good again. Then on the top part there will be at the end a bolt pressed in place. Screw a nut on this, set it over a proper sized socket and knock this bolt out. See the second image below. If you don't do this, your chance of getting this back together goes downhill fast. Then take an adjustable wrench and bend both the area where that bolt was and the tang at the back outward...like I'm doing in image 3 below.
At this point, take a moment to think about the design of your seat adjuster. The bearing cage and roller are limited two ways. There's a notch and there are two dimples. Please see image 4 below...the yellow pointers. These limitations exist for the front and rear rollers.
Now set your bottom piece up as you see in image 5 below...the roller and bearing cage at the front.

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