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

[wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Try "AMCPartsloon" on ebay.
If you can locate him he has a lot of stuff.

Biggest problem for him is finding things!

I think Joe Fulton has dealt with him and may have his off ebay contact info.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

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From: 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
> 
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