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**Thealien** · 09-14-2009, 02:08 PM

My Jimmy originally had a parchment interior. I would ruin a parchment interior so I am slowly changing everything over to black. I had been looking for a set of black seat belts for over a year and am still looking for some pieces/parts (plastic bolt covers for the rear seat seatbelts, Drivers side retractable seat belt, plastic seat belt hangers for console delete trucks. With all that out of the way I was offered these belts by NTR72GMC and I agreed

I recieved them and proceeded to take them apart. I still need a couple of the GM stickers for the pushbutton or the whole pushbutton with sticker attached (anybody have a couple?).

Here is where I started this morning

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Here I am cleaning them with simple green and a scrub brush

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Pretty dirty huh?

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I removed the tags from all but 2 of the belts. I left those two alone to compare and they were in pretty good shape after cleaning

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After cleaning I layed the cleanest belt over the faded belts

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Here is the rit dye and the tub I dyed them in

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09-14-2009, 02:08 PM	#1
Thealien Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pine Ridge Florida Posts: 4,138	My attempt at restoring/cleaning a set of seat belts My Jimmy originally had a parchment interior. I would ruin a parchment interior so I am slowly changing everything over to black. I had been looking for a set of black seat belts for over a year and am still looking for some pieces/parts (plastic bolt covers for the rear seat seatbelts, Drivers side retractable seat belt, plastic seat belt hangers for console delete trucks. With all that out of the way I was offered these belts by NTR72GMC and I agreed I recieved them and proceeded to take them apart. I still need a couple of the GM stickers for the pushbutton or the whole pushbutton with sticker attached (anybody have a couple?). Here is where I started this morning [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Here I am cleaning them with simple green and a scrub brush [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Pretty dirty huh? [IMG][/IMG] I removed the tags from all but 2 of the belts. I left those two alone to compare and they were in pretty good shape after cleaning [IMG][/IMG] After cleaning I layed the cleanest belt over the faded belts [IMG][/IMG] Here is the rit dye and the tub I dyed them in [IMG][/IMG]