Thread: A successful day . . .

Nice work on the restoration, I enjoyed reading the progress updates of your project.

You could put together a handy LR restoration manual for aspiring restorers with all the details you've captured along the way...

Jason

Congratulations Peter

The vehicle looks great, enjoy yourself.

Cheers Ian

That looks amazing. This thread will help me no end when I set about my 58 series 2 restore. I have the car in storage and when I get back from Scotland it will be ready to start.

Again well done.

Nice work Peter!

Have you any detail on how you fitted your roll-bar? I want to put one in my S1 and the idea is to bolt it to the chassis but I haven't done any detailed planning on how to achieve that,

Cheers Charlie

Originally Posted by chazza

Have you any detail on how you fitted your roll-bar? I want to put one in my S1 and the idea is to bolt it to the chassis but I haven't done any detailed planning on how to achieve that

I bolted the roll bar into the tub, not the chassis, with some big load spreaders (100 x 150mm) under the aluminium.

I have no illusions that this will do anything in the event of rolling over, but I wanted somewhere to bolt the seat belts onto, and this is a better alternative than anything else I can find in a soft top.

If I was going to bolt to the chassis, I would weld plates to the top of the chassis sticking outwards, cut through the floor of the tub (not the wheel arches, they're too wide), and bolt the roll bar onto the plates.

It would be easy if you took the tub off to do the welding (and drilling and painting).

Peter

Is that legal? I was under the impression that seat belts had to be engineered to be put into a vehicle, and for that the roll bar would have to be engineered too.

Please let me know what you think.

Chris

Originally Posted by Seriestwo

Is that legal? I was under the impression that seat belts had to be engineered to be put into a vehicle, and for that the roll bar would have to be engineered too.

The vehicle was built prior to 1973 i.e. prior to Australian Design Rules being introduced.

There is no requirement to install seat belts or, if you choose to, how they should be mounted.

The only requirement for registration is a blue slip safety check, which works out to the equivalent of a pink slip - brakes, lights, steering, wiper (driver side only) and suspension must all be in good condition.

Those are the rules for NSW - check with your own State for more info. There's been a substantial thread on this in here recently.

Peter

Originally Posted by peterg1001

I bolted the roll bar into the tub, not the chassis, with some big load spreaders (100 x 150mm) under the aluminium.

I have no illusions that this will do anything in the event of rolling over, but I wanted somewhere to bolt the seat belts onto, and this is a better alternative than anything else I can find in a soft top.

If I was going to bolt to the chassis, I would weld plates to the top of the chassis sticking outwards, cut through the floor of the tub (not the wheel arches, they're too wide), and bolt the roll bar onto the plates.

It would be easy if you took the tub off to do the welding (and drilling and painting).

Peter

I fitted one of these to my SIII and it works a treat for what you've described. I'm sure, as you are, that there'd be little protection in a high speed rollover, but when is that likely in these things anyway? It's certainly better than what I had. And I wasn't satisfied with a simple lap-sash belt. This is the only reason I bought the bar. When I had all new belts fitted (by the only approved guy here in WA) I was told that he had a couple of reservations about the tabs that the upper mount attaches to, but was still happy to sign off on it all.

I can also recommend Kim at All Wheel Trim where I bought this from. He's pretty helpful. Although I'll be more wary of importing anything next time I'm tempted. What a nightmare!