Re: [Amc-list] seat belts (and parking brakes)

[Victor the Cleaner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:59:11PM -0500, Frank Swygert wrote:

> Seat belts were offered as an option on Ramblers since 1962, but I 
> didn't find mounts in the floor of my 63 either. I used a fender washer 
> on top and bottom of the anchor bolt. A fender washer is a large washer 
> with a small hole. I used 3/8" bolt size fender washers, which are about 
> 2-2.5" in diameter. 
> 
> Someone told me once that you could hit something hard enough to bend 
> one of those washers and rip the hole in the floor sheet metal. That's 
> true, but if you hit something hard enough to do that, you don't need 
> to worry about the seat belts at all. In fact, you won't be worrying 
> about a thing from then on. 

Yeah, that's pretty much how it looks, at least on the tunnel.  But I'd
sure like to do something better on the rocker channel side.
 
> The only thing to worry about on the park brake cable is the end where 
> it attaches to the pedal inside. 

That's where they're all different.  I just pulled out my old cable, and 
it's pretty nasty - the cable has a little ball crimped onto the end, 
*after* it's been threaded through a U-bracket that gets clevis-pinned to
the pedal mechanism.  And the way it's organized, you actually have to
yank the entire pedal mechanism out to get the clevis pin out.  Dinks.

> If you can get an end that connects there you can trim the other end to 
> fit. You can get small cable swedges and screw on stops or clamps from 
> Lowe's or a hardware store to get the other end to fit. 

I'm thinking that NOS is going to be a lot less screwing around.  Anyone
have a guess as to who's most likely to have one?

thx.
jl

_______________________________________________
Amc-list mailing list
Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list