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bracket_diagram.jpg
546 viewsThis has everything needed for anyone wanting to do this provided they have experience welding, cutting and tapping metal. I've tried to be exact but I would highly recommend that the brackets be made with the particular car present to allow for test fittings.
cleaning_seatbelts_003.jpg
489 viewsTake your 'new' belts and clean them. Do this by pulling out the belt and securing it with something to keep it from retracting.
cleaning_seatbelts_004.jpg
427 viewsAll stretched out and ready for a bath. Scrub both sides gently in hot, soapy water. Rinse both sides in fresh, hot water.
cleaning_seatbelts_005.jpg
405 viewsDrying in the sun shine.
cleaning_seatbelts_006.jpg
470 viewsThese are the belt latches. I cut the seat belt warning wire from the latch after the photo was taken.
seatbelt_001.jpg
502 viewsThe last time I'll see this mess!
seatbelt_003.jpg
459 viewsJust a reference of how the upper mount should look when the new one goes in.
seatbelt_004.jpg
482 viewsThe ugly stock belts and latches are removed.
seatbelt_005.jpg
470 viewsBoth of the brackets after fabrication.
seatbelt_006.jpg
443 viewsYou'll need to straighten the latches. Here I've straightened the left (driver side) latch. The right one is the unstraightened passenger latch.
seatbelt_007.jpg
499 viewsGo ahead and mount the latches. Notice the release buttons face each other!
seatbelt_008.jpg
442 viewsThe new belt upper mount attached.
seatbelt_010.jpg
454 viewsHow I attached the lower outside mount to the bracket. Slowly snug the bolt down until you can't move the belt's lower outside mount, then back of about 1/2 a turn, just so it can move with minor effort.
seatbelt_011.jpg
516 viewsHere's the lower outside mount and new bracket, mounted to the old stock location. This is shown for illustration purposes -- you need to mount the retractor first, then the bracket to the body.
seatbelt_012.jpg
482 viewsThis is the way you would actually do it; mount the retractor first THEN bolt the bracket and lower outside mount to the body. These two bolts should be tightened firmly but not by a gorilla i.e. don't over do it!
seatbelt_014.jpg
479 viewsJust a back-side shot of the 12mm bolts poking out the back. 10mm would be the perfect size but the hardware store I went to didn't have that size. The bolts should be M8x10 with 1.25mm thread pitch.
seatbelt_015.jpg
532 viewsAll bolted up. Looks nice-n-neat, eh?
seatbelt_016.jpg
524 viewsPretty cover snapped on.
seatbelt_017.jpg
486 viewsNow that's what I'm talkin' about! Clean!
seatbelt_018.jpg
507 viewsHow the back side looks. Pretty darn close to how the stock units look in later cars!
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