[Steve Cassani]

I got the seat out with no trouble. Thanks for the advice concerning the risk of dragging the exposed bolts across a painted surface. I had the passenger compartment covered in wool blankets, just in case.

Both sides of the seat rail had failed to engage with the teeth, causing the adjustment mechanism to freeze. After tapping the mechanism a few times, lightly, with a hammer one side came free and then the other took only a jiggle. I sprayed some WD40 on the sliding portions of the seat adjuster along with the mechanism that rotates with the handle, then followed this up with some lithium grease on the rails and the rotating parts.

I positioned the tooth selector in the mid-point of it's range of travel, worked it manually several times and everything was fine.

I carefully put the seat back in position in the car - this took several minutes, being careful not to tear the carpet. I tried to adjust the seat location while stting in the car and found I had accomplished nothing; the seat was again jammed in the position I had set it when it was out of the car. Fortunately this position coincides with my ideal location for depressing the clutch.

I'm not through with this problem and may end up asking Dynamic for a replacement seat track and adjustment mechanism.