I purchased the seatbeltplanet.com FJ60 rear retracting seat belt set to upgrade my 1987 FJ60 rear belts. The old lap retractors were old and jammed, and I want to be able to take along the whole fam on trips. Currently only 2 can ride with me, and one has to "ride bitch" using the rear center lap belt.
I located the holes all FJ60s have in the c-pillar for mounting shoulder belt pivot, but probing with a dental pick (or pin or needle) revealed that the weld nut behind there was NOT installed. So I had to find a way to fish a nut up in there and get the belt threaded, somehow.
First this I did was trim the headliner fabric at the mounting holes with an x-acto knife, and removed the rear trim card panels. I used a shop vac crammed up into the space behind the body panel to fish some twine through there. Using the vac makes this easy and practically foolproof. You want to pull the nut up in there from the outside rear, on the outside of the interior stamped metal piece.
So now on with the pictures:
String pulled thru and view of the interior panel with the cam crammed behind there, looking up. This is the passenger (right) side of the vehicle which I did first.
Then I fished the driver side:
This is taken with the cam looking up, passenger side, rear of vehicle to the right. This is where the most clearance for the nut is, and if you have scrawny arms like mine, you can cram your hand up in there to help guide the nut up. Practice this before you apply the epoxy and go for it!
More to come today...
I located the holes all FJ60s have in the c-pillar for mounting shoulder belt pivot, but probing with a dental pick (or pin or needle) revealed that the weld nut behind there was NOT installed. So I had to find a way to fish a nut up in there and get the belt threaded, somehow.
First this I did was trim the headliner fabric at the mounting holes with an x-acto knife, and removed the rear trim card panels. I used a shop vac crammed up into the space behind the body panel to fish some twine through there. Using the vac makes this easy and practically foolproof. You want to pull the nut up in there from the outside rear, on the outside of the interior stamped metal piece.
So now on with the pictures:
String pulled thru and view of the interior panel with the cam crammed behind there, looking up. This is the passenger (right) side of the vehicle which I did first.
Then I fished the driver side:
This is taken with the cam looking up, passenger side, rear of vehicle to the right. This is where the most clearance for the nut is, and if you have scrawny arms like mine, you can cram your hand up in there to help guide the nut up. Practice this before you apply the epoxy and go for it!
More to come today...