Thread: Inertia reel seat belts - where do I mount the inertia reel?

Hi all

I am replacing the existing lap seat belts with inertia reel seat belts, but I am not sure where to mount the inertia reel part on my 64 hardtop wagon.

Is it somewhere on the rear bulkhead?

Any pictures would be greatly appreciated

Thanks heaps

Originally Posted by Dark61

"Fitting New Seatbelts to a s3 109 Truck Cab"


This was the title of the thread and it was in the series 3 section re the seatbelts for the cab - I've gone blank re posting the link. You should be able to find it if you search for it bottom left.
cheers,
D

Hello D and 86Mud + Other interested parties,

That link goes to a Truck cabin style and they have the curved glass in the corner that causes problems if the correct bracket that looks like a big rectangle that runs parallel with the door pillar is not fitted. Because 86Mud's vehicle is a hardtop it has a straight side wall and this means the diagonal brace that Gromit took a photograph of is correct for the front seat passengers in the hardtop. I would not have a clue how the seatbelts are arranged for the rear seat passengers.

The photographs below only relate to truck cabin inertia seat belts with only seating capacity for 2.5 people sitting on the one and only row of seats.

First photo is the main bracket taken off a vehicle, 2nd photo is the seat belt top anchor point, 3rd photo shows the top of the main bracket and a right-angle bracket that secures the main bracket to the cabin. 4th photograph shows a row of three small bolts near where the door closes and one main anchor bolt going into the tube at the bottom. In the case of the truck cabin the reel is fitted on the back wall just behind the seat, as shown in Diana's photograph

Otherwise going to the Truck Cab link would only cause confusion - of which I was the major culprit, my apologies for those past errors, Dark

My hardtop that forms the background in the second photograph has a static belt which only has a hole drilled through the door pillar and an anchor bolt that goes through the outside wall, through the pillar and then through the anchor hole in the seatbelt and this holds everything in place. The vehicle was registered at one stage so it must have been good enough for Queensland Transport to let it past its safety certificate in the distant past.

Hopefully this message relating to Truck Cabin style inertia seat belts clears things up in relation to my efforts on a different thread

To conclude Colin's photograph with red oxide diagonal bracket is the correct fitting for the driver's inertial reel seatbelt in a hardtop.

Kind Regards
Lionel