Seatbelts in a vintage flattie???

Jordan I put seatbelts in my cj6 ...... I bought 3 point belts off eBay then mounted them to the floor and roll cage front and rear....... you can go that route or go for safety ( 5-6 point harness), just takes a little creativity

 

Do you have a roll cage or roll bar?

H.

 

I put 4 point setups in (I buy the 5 and have it available, but 4 seems enough most of the time). Mostly folks put the lap belts on, and we only use the others in real bad places for us.

My seats are part of the cage, so I attach everything to the supports there.

 

I think the 5th should come with a built in cup...

 

Three-point belts from a different rig are a common install in CJs. Many guys bolt the retractor to the floor, or to the sloped front of the wheelhouse. This install method often makes the belts lock up at inconvient times offroad, especially when getting out of the rig, then trying to belt back in.

I had my retractors mounted to the sloped front of the wheelhouse for many years, suffering through the inconvient lock-ups... until I read a post by Snowtow on another forum, quite a few years ago.

He mounted his retractors to the base of his rollbar, which in turn mounted to the top of the wheelhouse. This set-up is similar to the stock orientation from which many 3-point belts were gleaned (mine came from a '79 Subaru wagon), and virtually eliminates the inconvient lock up and allows the belt system to work normally, even offroad.

Here are some pics I borrowed from Snowtow. I used these to modify my own 3-point belts in the '71:







Essentially, one welds some flat stock to a couple muffler brackets, bolts these to the rollbar, drill a hole for the retractor orientation pin, and feed the belt to an upper anchor pin mounted to the rollbar above the shoulder.

I never grabbed any good pics of the way I implemented this mod on the '71. Here is one pic from a distance, yopu can see the retractor mounted to the base of the rollbar behind the drivers seat:



HTH!!

 

Other will debate this (Count On It ) but belts without at least a roll bar are a Bad Idea.

Would you really want to be belted into this?




http://www.tantel.ca/Tonka_accident.html

H.

 

Either way it's a crap shoot but in the mid 70's the Canadian military started installing belts in everything in sight. Within 6 months they issued a standing order not to use them in jeeps because they found the death rate in accidents was going up. Knowing this I chose not to install belts in Tonk & got a lot of grief from from a lot of people, however if I had Rachel would be dead now.

H.