How to remove the tabs that keep the passenger seat from sliding?

[V10SpeedLuvr]

How do you remove the tabs that prevent the passenger seat from sliding back and forth? I pulled my seat and seat track out this morning, but it looks like to get to the tabs, you have to drill out a rivet on each seattrack. Is there an easier way?

 

[SNKEBIT]

I think you can just bend them out of the way with a screwdriver, can't remember exactly how tho.

 

[SNAKE BITE]

Why did dodge have them there in the first place?

 

[snampro]

Chad: I posted pictures of the tabs in my feedback on removing the seats. After looking at them thoroughly this morning I'm pretty sure you can't just bend them out of the way. I think if you removed the entire seat you could cut them off with a dremel and a carbon wheel...

My question is why do you want to remove them? I can't really see why you need to move the passenger seat forward, its not like they need to reach the brake or anything...

here's the pic of the tab:

 

[Gottaviper]

Due to the detailing freak that I am I want to remove these tabs so I can vacumm behind the passenger seat.

 

[snampro]

then I suggest just removing the seat bottom, you'll get everything you can't get by just leaning it forward.

 

[JoeViperRT10]

Okay.. dropped a wrench behind the passenger seat.. and couldn't move it forward lean it .. just have the back move forward or anything. You're saying there's a way to remove just the bottom? Can you tell me how on my 95 rt/10?

thanks
jp

 

[snampro]

Check in here:

Removing Seat Thread

we talked about removing the seat bottom and I provided a step-by-step proceedure and a few pics.

Its pretty easy, just push the gray bar at the bottom of the seat back and the entire seat bottom just pulls off...

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

Chad: I posted pictures of the tabs in my feedback on removing the seats. After looking at them thoroughly this morning I'm pretty sure you can't just bend them out of the way. I think if you removed the entire seat you could cut them off with a dremel and a carbon wheel...

My question is why do you want to remove them? I can't really see why you need to move the passenger seat forward, its not like they need to reach the brake or anything...

I did remove the seat bottom like your instructuions said (thanks! they were great instructions). I was able to finally clean out all the dirt under there. I was wondering about removing the tabs for...storage lol. I'm sure I'm not the 1st Viper owener to realize that you can actually get a lot of stuff back behind the seats. When I go to carshows, all my detail stuff goes behind my driver seat (since the trunk is already near capacity w/just the top and windows) and having the passenger seat slide forward would be nice too. I looked at it as well and decided it would be too much of a pain so i put my seat back together, but atleast i had a chance to clean up under the seat, the seat rails, the seat itself and every bolt i took out

 

[JoeViperRT10]

hey snampro.. great stuff.. thanks!!

jp