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Woofer is stiff and scraping when pushed

I've never been a believer of using the hand/push method of determining center. A little too much pressure with the thumb on a tight VC'd speaker will reproduce rubbing all day long. Either shim, use a triple A battery, or test tone to ensure centered VC. I prefer the battery method, voltage don't lie.
 
It's entirely possible that I messed it up during refoam but I'm pretty sure I didn't. It was when I went to center the voice coils that I discovered the issue. I forget what the technique was called but the refoam kit I had said to center the voice coil I should lightly push on the cone and find where it had the least resistance and most "bounce". But as soon as I touched one of the bad driver's cones I felt that it wasn't moving and would scrape if I forced it to move. One thing that may have been wrong is that I had already glued the new surrounds to the cone but not the outer ring of the basket. I was very careful of the cone while doing everything up until that point though, they were barely moved during the cleaning and gluing. So let me know if that could be the cause of my problem.

The old surrounds were practically non-existent when I saw them the first time, so from the comments I'm guessing they were just blasted for many years and burned out. I'll chalk it up to a lesson for me and try to sell the good drivers to get some money back. Thanks everyone for the responses so far.
Finding least resistance is meaningless before they are glued. Gluing to cone first is correct. Then connect your laptop/whatever through the earphone jack to the speaker (you'll need aligator clips on one end of that IC) and run a 30hz test tone. That will center the vc while you glue it down to the basket.
 
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