OK, Now I am happy with the seat belts BCS sold me. Installation is complete, the inertial retractors are properly adjusted, and all is fine.
A few tips:
The bracket holes were all located and drilled from inside the car. The latch tail bolt eyes were located near the rear of the prop shaft tunnel about half the way up. Access was via removing the rear seat cushions. Easy.
The front clevis anchors fit on the floor between the seat and the sill. There is just enough room. The floor has a formed low trough which these fit nicely into. Drill one hole. Drop a bolt through. This allows the bracket to be the template for the second hole. No brainer.
The retractors were located as high on the flat part of the inner wheel well as possible. It is kind of in the way of any poor soul who would sit in the back seat (but I cannot imagine that). They are mounted a a slight angle to allow the belt to go over the shoulder but not be pulling up on the tonneau bar.
And finally, if you have not already tried it, use a soldering iron to melt away and seal the fibers of the carpet where you want to drill a hole. This keeps the drill from catching and winding up a lot of carpet yarn. Some carpet seems to have a pretty high melting temp, so the soldering iron trick may not always work. But usually it does. Did for may, anyway.
Also, 1/8th in pilot holes were drilled first. Then the larger hole for the bolt.
All seems well with the project. And one other thing I noticed, the seats were lacking the wood strips under them. Does anyone know the size, especially the appropriate thickness? I am going to make a set and install this weekend. But I bet the driver side over the muffler is a pain to work with, since the nuts are right above the muffler.
A few tips:
The bracket holes were all located and drilled from inside the car. The latch tail bolt eyes were located near the rear of the prop shaft tunnel about half the way up. Access was via removing the rear seat cushions. Easy.
The front clevis anchors fit on the floor between the seat and the sill. There is just enough room. The floor has a formed low trough which these fit nicely into. Drill one hole. Drop a bolt through. This allows the bracket to be the template for the second hole. No brainer.
The retractors were located as high on the flat part of the inner wheel well as possible. It is kind of in the way of any poor soul who would sit in the back seat (but I cannot imagine that). They are mounted a a slight angle to allow the belt to go over the shoulder but not be pulling up on the tonneau bar.
And finally, if you have not already tried it, use a soldering iron to melt away and seal the fibers of the carpet where you want to drill a hole. This keeps the drill from catching and winding up a lot of carpet yarn. Some carpet seems to have a pretty high melting temp, so the soldering iron trick may not always work. But usually it does. Did for may, anyway.
Also, 1/8th in pilot holes were drilled first. Then the larger hole for the bolt.
All seems well with the project. And one other thing I noticed, the seats were lacking the wood strips under them. Does anyone know the size, especially the appropriate thickness? I am going to make a set and install this weekend. But I bet the driver side over the muffler is a pain to work with, since the nuts are right above the muffler.