Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: auf_wiedersehen_pet on October 26, 2010, 21:44:11
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I'm looking at replacing my front seats with a set of reclining bucket seats.
The trouble is, the new ones don't have seat belt mounting points. Now I'm a competent DIY welder and can easily make brackets which will attach to the floorpan with rear reinforcing plates.
What are your thoughts?
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Rally harnesses have to be fitted in a similar way, so it must fall within the rules. I'd suggest though that you teied to tie the new anchor point down to the chassis not the cab floor.
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on a 200 the anchors are bolted through the tunnel, might be worth looking to see if the captive nut assembly was carried over unused on yours?
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tie the new anchor point down to the chassis not the cab floor.
That's a sound suggestion - easier on the inner mountings as opposed to the outer mountings though.
Playing Devil's advocate, the current seat belt mounts bolt to the seat/seatbase, with the seatbase being spot welded (not bolted) to the cab floor.
on a 200 the anchors are bolted through the tunnel, might be worth looking to see if the captive nut assembly was carried over unused on yours?
That's work a look. Where did the outer mounts fit?
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into the floor about 2" in from the bottom of the b post, mine is 3 door with tilting seats so could eaisily be different but lift the trim and look. also the mounts are i think meant to rip out slowly during a crash to lessen the load on the squishy bit so be carefull with too heavy a fixing to the chassis.