Reply to "Upper seat belt bolt/nut question"

joules"Racing is Life, anything before or after is just waiting" - Steve McQueen

Mikael,

You may (hopefully) get lucky and find the previous owner didn't have the correct bolts and just used a smaller nut & bolt leaving the old threads intact. It is pretty hard to strip out those fine UNF threads.

I believe in most Country's it is a DOT requirement to have the bolt thread into the chassis/body and that removable nuts are prohibited.

The 'captive nut' on my '74 is actually a piece of threaded tube welded into the box section, it does not go all the way through to the engine compartment. I would think it possible to cut this out and replace from the cabin if necessary. The tube is very thick wall and IMO you could probably retap it a slightly larger size. If so use an equally fine thread.

Are you using conventional seat belts or harnesses?

Good luck,
Julian

12/25/109:55 AM

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