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how have you bolted you lower harness mounts?

blakep82 - 13/1/09 at 11:29 PM

photos please

i gather most of you have them bolted you harnesses to the sides of the chassis or the tunnell, but has anyone bolted theirs to the 'floor'*?

Ideally i think i'd have gone for snap hooks for the lower mounts, and eyes bolted in, but the belts are to be bolted instead. I'm just a bit worried about the metal plates in the end of the belts being flat on the floor, and the belt going up at 90 degrees.

* floor being the plate where the seats are bolted to

[Edited on 13/1/09 by blakep82]

Ben_Copeland - 13/1/09 at 11:50 PM

Doesnt it have something to do with the bolts being in sheer... Strength comes from sideways force. If they were bolted to the floor the force would be on the head of the bolt.

Just something that popped into mind.

Might be crap tho

blakep82 - 14/1/09 at 12:01 AM

wel, thats what i was thinking... wonder if maybe i can sandwich them harness mounts between the seat mounts and the floor?

Ben_Copeland - 14/1/09 at 12:04 AM

Whats wrong with having them in the tunnel side like everyone else?

blakep82 - 14/1/09 at 12:08 AM

my tunnel has no structural strength at all
remember my chassis is verrrry different

found the page of the manual. they can't be mounted the way i hoped...

[Edited on 14/1/09 by blakep82]

Ben_Copeland - 14/1/09 at 12:09 AM

Make some structure for them then

blakep82 - 14/1/09 at 12:13 AM

nooooo i'm won't be welding anything into the chassis....
its been used in the past for racing, and i'm going to put it back together the way it was then. i just need to find out how that was

Canada EH! - 14/1/09 at 01:14 AM

How about a piece of angle iron bolted to the floor and the belt bolted to the side.

coozer - 14/1/09 at 09:44 AM

How about some spacers under the bracket to hold them off the floor?

Have a look at the top mounting points of a Ford Ka. They have spacers, short ones at the front, longer ones at the back and the correct length bolts. Check the markigns on the bolts tho, I found the front ones were stamped but the bac kones weren't.

Mine are bolted to the floor but as you've pointed out I used eyes with snap hooks on the harnesses. Purely to avoid the problem you are having now

blakep82 - 14/1/09 at 06:17 PM

here's how i'd thought about doing them

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but the force pulls the wrong way on the bolt... the tunnel itself is only sheet metal

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Originally posted by Canada EH!
How about a piece of angle iron bolted to the floor and the belt bolted to the side.

this seems to be the best idea so far i think. assuming i can bolt the angle iron under the seat mounting (i assume the seats will have 2 bolts each side, so perhaps 4 x 12.9 bolts through the floor on each side (safety in niumbers lol) and a holt in the side of the angle for the belts to bolt through?

how do you mean steve? could i still bolt them straight too the floor? or would any force still be on the head of the bolt?

[Edited on 14/1/09 by blakep82]

blakep82 - 14/1/09 at 06:28 PM

hmmm, seem to have problems with attaching photos.. think the JPG extention isn't right somehow

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whould this be ok do you think?

like what canada eh was saying i think. red it bolts, blue is the seat, grey is metal brackets