Hello All,
I also use the stock 30yr old harnesses. They work fine but are
not very fun. They are not retractable like modern belts. For the driver,
you can set them up fine and they really hold you in your seat. But, if you
are driving alot of different people around then constantly adjusting the
pass side is not fun. Then, once you get them adjusted right, you cant
lean foward. One of my more regular pass. says that they make her feel
claustrophobic..in a convertable...
What I would like to do is buy just the shoulder harness part of a
modern system. Mount the retractor with the bolts on the inner fender wells.
Have a trim shop of someone, sew the roadster hardware onto the end. Then it
would still look really stock but let you move around a bit and be easier to
use.
Daniel 69 2000 'Feynman'
> Dear Friends,
>
> I use the "stock" shoulder harnesses and route them over the top
> (outer-edge) of each seat-back. I don't have a rollbar (yet!). The
> harness stays in place, except when I lean over too far to the passenger
> side. Then the shoulder harness slips down, off my (left) shoulder.
>
> I suspect that routing the harnesses over the seatbacks is what was
> intended by designing the headrests with an offset towards the center of
> the car (i.e., the headrests are offset towards the center console) rather
> than their being square in the middle of the seatbacks. That way, there is
> space on top of the seatback for the shoulder harness to pass over.
>
> Regards,
> Teddy
> 69 2000
> Pgh PA
>
> At 11:07 AM 4/30/99 +0000, John F Sandhoff wrote:
> >Kyle asks:
> >> In the parcel area of my '69, I see a nice bit bolt on each side in the
> >> wheel arch. Looks like a hookup for a shoulder harness.
> >
> >Yes, factory shoulder harnesses hooked in here.
> >
> >There was discussion long ago about whether this mounting scheme
> >actually increased the likelihood of injury. The theory is that with the
> >mounting point BELOW the shoulder, when you are thrown forward
> >in a collision the belt will push DOWN on your body, compressing
> >your spine. Ouch!
> >
> >One possible solution is if the car has a rollbar, to weld a loop on
> >it and route the belt through it. In the back of my mind I wonder what
> >the results would be if the car flipped and the rollbar twisted.. But
> >I suppose odds are you'll ram a brick wall before you flip the car..
> >
> >-- John
> > John F Sandhoff sandhoff@csus.edu Sacramento, CA
> >
>
>
|