Hi all and help with seat belt installation

[hartless440]

Hows it going everybody?! New member and recent recipient of the 1970, 440 Barracuda that my Dad and I have been restoring since I was 8. I'm 24 now, and it is still in great shape. However excited I am to have this car I have very little time to actually work on it. I am a Marine stationed in NC and although the weather is great and got plenty of places to work on it, I try to devote as much time to my wife as possible before I deploy in a few months. So, needless to say I get a little frustrated and tired of looking through the old Chrysler maintenance manuals trying to figure out how to put these front seat belts in. I haven't even gotten any because I am not sure what to get. I just want a simple lap belt for the bucket seats in the front.

So any help or pointers to put me in the right direction would be great, thanks everyone and looking fwd to talking to you all.
Semper FI

Mike

 

[ramenth]

Welcome aboard and let me say thank you for your service.

Now, are you looking for seatbelts or do you have them already and looking to put them in?

 

[msbaugh]

I found a 3 pt harness online and put it in myself. It really is any easy installation (might I ad that im 21 and I have very little experience so far)...

The hardest part would be getting that damn back seat out for the seat belts back there. trust me it's a pain in the ass. But other than that just bolt them in! Easy

 

[hartless440]

I dont have the seat belts yet, but I am just looking at some cheap lap belts for right now.

http://www.seatbeltsplus.com/category/2-Point-Lap-Seatbelts.html

I was looking through the manual and noticed that the only bolt down point is the inboard side of the bucket seats on the center console side.

 

[msbaugh]

They have 3 bolt points... for each bucket seat. One where you mentioned, one on the floor near the doors, and one overhead. At least it does on mine. Mine is a 70 challenger, don't think there would be any differences though

 

[ramenth]

Bolt the receiver where it says to. Bolt the strap on the position near the door. There is one.

As far as finding something "cheap" do a search on eBay or our sister site FBBO and see if someone is selling a set of B-body lap belts for a few bucks.

 

[340SHAKER]

Does anybody have pictures of how the front lap belts install? My '71 was gutted when I bought it and all the interior stuff was in a pile. I have the shoulder belts installed on the headliner and the rear belts were pretty straightforward, I think I have them installed correctly. However, I am struggling with the front lap bets. Are there two belts attached to the same bolt on the floor hump??? I might be missing some parts as well, not sure, but I have two belts with the female latch in a single plastic cover that I assume attaches with a single bolt. Any advice or pictures would be much appreciated. Thanks.