seat track prep ?

[my kids toy]

What is the best way to clear up surface rust on our seat tracks ? I do not think they can be sand blasted because of the grease and bearings inside the track.
Can the exposed part of the inside of the track be painted ?
How to add more grease also ?

[mongocanfly]

I took my seat tracks apart and cleaned the with purple power....mine are galvanized so need need to paint....used white lithium grease when reassembling....
If yours are painted I'd take them apart to clean them up...paint and then regrease...

[my kids toy]

It is a 67 bench seat and I think it has pressed in pins so it will not just come apart

[nsb29]

They can be taken apart it’s the put back together that so much fun lol

[TKCR]

I sandblast all my tracks for my seat restorations. But I don’t take them apart. I have a system down now since I do so many. It’s time consuming, but I keep working on them until they start sliding like new again. Once I’m done sandblasting, I rinse them with water, to remove all the sand. And then immediately blow them dry with the air compressor. Once they are completely dry, they get repainted. Several days later I grease the rollers & bearings.

[TKCR]

Here is a set of 1970 GTO Bucket seat track that I worked on. I restored the entire seats, including the frames. But the tracks were totally seized by all the rust. I couldn’t even get them to budge, wailing on them with a mallet! But at last I got them back to sliding like new. Below is a video I made after they were completed.
https://youtu.be/o_IUEndYxuE

[my kids toy]

Thanks for the reply's the inside of my tracks are not rusty just the outside has a small surface of rust dust, I wire wheeled them and they came out nice.