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SILVER Star
After reading nearly every seatbelt upgrade thread I could find here, I'm trying to install my surplus HUMVEE seatbelts. The discussion somewhere here about the potential safety problems of mounting seatbelts to the seat frame has me looking for alternate spots to mount everything. Ideally, the ends of the seatbelts should mount to the truck—not the frame of the seat.
Any suggestions on these mounting spots? The big bolt for the rear heater just barely allows the female end to reach the seat, but it seems to work fine. Large bolt, room for a big washer to cover the loop of the seatbelt base, and I could reinforce with a strap from underneath the truck to spread out the force if I really wanted to.
For the outer end of the belt, there isn't really anywhere else to mount the belt other than the original location on the seat frame. It's not ideal, but I'm worried about the belt being long enough if I mount it all the way to a new hole in the floor.
For the retractor end, I'm going to be making a mount that ties into the roll bar mounting bolt and one of the captive nuts at the top of the tub. Test fitting, it seems like this will put it directly below the top triangle mount (no pic) that I have attached to the bottom bolt on the junction of the stock roll bar.
Any suggestions on these mounting spots? The big bolt for the rear heater just barely allows the female end to reach the seat, but it seems to work fine. Large bolt, room for a big washer to cover the loop of the seatbelt base, and I could reinforce with a strap from underneath the truck to spread out the force if I really wanted to.
For the outer end of the belt, there isn't really anywhere else to mount the belt other than the original location on the seat frame. It's not ideal, but I'm worried about the belt being long enough if I mount it all the way to a new hole in the floor.
For the retractor end, I'm going to be making a mount that ties into the roll bar mounting bolt and one of the captive nuts at the top of the tub. Test fitting, it seems like this will put it directly below the top triangle mount (no pic) that I have attached to the bottom bolt on the junction of the stock roll bar.