Rust on rear seat belt anchors/rear wheel humps

[tone33]

I went to pull up the carpet today in the back seat area and found rust on both sides at each seat belt anchor on the wheel fender humps. Has anyone else had rust here and what have you done to address?

Obviously the safety factor of the rear seat belts is compromised, so ill need to eventually do something as I like to have back seat passengers now and again (as do my kids). The truck overall is not a rusty truck, so I'm a bit surprised, but I guess I shouldn't be as I've watched the rear tires rub off the rubberized undercoating over the past several years .

 

[ajax1]

Few threads on this issue, you got to cut and re weld

 

[CharlieS]

Yep, cut it out and weld in fresh material. I used 18 ga sheet metal. I dispensed with the anchors altogether (no second row seats anymore), but you can buy ready made anchor plates too (I bought them for race cars years ago). My experience trying to buy cut outs of parts cars is that these are common areas for corrosion. I used a mig setup and lots of tiny tack welds, air nozzle close at hand to extinguish small fires. A bit of metal forming, butt weld, grind as needed, then prime, paint and undercoat.

 

[tone33]

sweet, thanks folks. I didn't see any threads on it, but I guess my mud search skills are still lacking after 14 years .

I do wonder if it's more of a failure point than from rust, or maybe a little bit of a combination. Not that it matters - im just curious more than anything. My truck really isn't rusty at all. Southern truck (in US) and besides tailgate tell-tell rust that is common, there's really no rust anywhere else.

 

[Funner]

Usually get better results in search from google, type issue and ih8mud in search. Copy pasty below in google search bar.

rear seatbelt rust ih8mud site:forum.ih8mud.com