Seatbelts

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:00:31 -0500 (EST)
From: SKeene8194@aol.com
Subject: wood is good! - Seat belts.
To: Toy4x4@tlca.org

In a message dated 97-03-25 19:30:41 EST, you write:

<< On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 SKeene8194@aol.com wrote:
 
 > My truck is an 81 also, with the floating type seat belt.  I now have 4
 > point harnesses.  But I still use the Factory belts on the street.  I
 > just tuck the harnesses behind the seats. 
 
 Just curious, what did you bolt the shoulder straps to?
 
 
 Jonathan Albrecht
 albr9619@uidaho.edu >>


At first I bolted the belts to the back of the cab.  But the metal there is 
very thin, plus the belts I have are very long, so I moved them to a place 
in the floor behind the seat.   The top of both belts are held in by one
bolt.

The lap part of these belts have spring loaded clips on the ends that 
attach to eye bolts in the floor .  This allows you to remove the bottom part

of the belts.  I had the idea of using an eye bolt and a mountain climbers
caribeaner
for the sholder straps.   That would make the belts compleatly removable.  

Anyway,  It keeps my noggin of the windows and the roof.   I think I said
this before
but I sometimes have to slip off  one of the shoulder straps to lean out the
window
to see where I'm puttin my front tire.  (While the Jeep people in my club
throw jibes
about getting some half doors on my Toyota. )

Steve Keene
skeene8194@aol.com

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:18:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Albrecht 
Subject: wood is good! - Seat belts.
To: Toy4x4@tlca.org

> At first I bolted the belts to the back of the cab.  But the metal there is 
> very thin, plus the belts I have are very long, so I moved them to a place 
> in the floor behind the seat.   The top of both belts are held in by one
> bolt.

Hmm...  I've talked to others about setting up harnesses, and this is my
understanding:

If you mount the shoulder belts above your shoulder than it doesn't do a
very good job of holding you down in your seat.

If you mount the shoulder belts below your shoulder (like to the floor),
then it does a good job of holding you down, but if you hit something
really hard (when going forward) you can hurt your back.  This is because
your body tries to go forward, and the only way the belt can let you do
that is by compressing your back.

Supposedly the best method is to mount the belts directly behind the top
of your shoulders, preferably to a roll cage of some sort.


Anyway, FWIW..

Jonathan Albrecht
albr9619@uidaho.edu
http://www.uidaho.edu/~albr9619/

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