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SWB 4x4 Collector
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Location: Osage City, KS
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A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
I just got back with one of the best deals I have found in a long time. Out of all the yards and trucks I have looked at over these past 10 years, I found a set of Shoulder Harnesses today in my hometown junkyard of all places. I am so happy to have found these because I have been looking for a set for years. The only thing I wish that could of been better, would that they would have been blue, but I am sure I will dye these covers atleast to match my belts. Sorry about the rant, I am just in a very good mood today now. Trevor
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Any pics? What year truck did you get them out of?
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Please don't take this the wrong way!
I'd be real leery of junkyard seat belts. Realistically speaking, seat belts/shoulder harnesses are only good for 1 hard crash. They can be stretched and weakened with no visible signs of damage. Personally, I'd buy new, or have them rewebbed. I'd just hate to hear of somebody getting killed, or worse, because of a belt failure. Just my .02.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Absolutely a great find Trevor! Good hunting man.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
The belts came from a 1971 Suburban ambulance. We still need to go back and get the rest of the belts out of the vehicle but they were closing tonight.
El Jay, I understand where you are coming from. I have used several junkyard seat belts before with no problems. My truck had blue interior anyway, so I will probably restore some blue belts to put in these. The ambulance though, was not wrecked, just out of commission, that's how I pretty much see all the trucks in yards around here though. They haven't been in a wreck, but just needed to get out of someone's yard.
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TREVOR ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=624819 ![]() ![]() :2004 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon (daily driver) WTB: 1968-70 Cruise Control Lever |
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Cool find.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Those are nice, great score!
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
El Jay has a good point but damn, those things look new.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
That's an unbelieveable score, congrats!
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Funny how everybody worries about the safety factor with used seat belts, and nobody says anything about the diminished safety that comes from converting a van tilt column...great score Trevor!!
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
I never worry about seatbelts.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
i have been looking for a set of blue ones for years too!
nice find
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
How about not quite dead for a very long time?
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
For me; lying in a bed forever with a body that doesn't work but a brain that is still active as all get out........or using a soda straw to maneuver my powered wheelchair around.
But, then, that's just me.
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'69 Chevy 1/2 T LWB Stepper: Daily Beater '72 GMC 3/4 T Fleet: Another Daily Beater '72 Plymouth Gran Coupe: ? "Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." Friedrich Nietzsche "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." Harry S. Truman GUN CONTROL: Never having to say, "I missed you." Always fire two warning shots into your attacker's chest area before putting a bullet between his eyes. Paraphrased from Louis Awerbuck |
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Beat me to it!
Thank you!
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'69 Chevy 1/2 T LWB Stepper: Daily Beater '72 GMC 3/4 T Fleet: Another Daily Beater '72 Plymouth Gran Coupe: ? "Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." Friedrich Nietzsche "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." Harry S. Truman GUN CONTROL: Never having to say, "I missed you." Always fire two warning shots into your attacker's chest area before putting a bullet between his eyes. Paraphrased from Louis Awerbuck |
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Champagne Taste on Beer Budget
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
That's the color I am looking for as well.
Nice Score! Congrats
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Heck, i been brain dead for years. Ain't stopped me yet.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
You lie!!!!!
I know, because I met you up close & personal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call me a liar; I double dog dare ya!!!
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'69 Chevy 1/2 T LWB Stepper: Daily Beater '72 GMC 3/4 T Fleet: Another Daily Beater '72 Plymouth Gran Coupe: ? "Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." Friedrich Nietzsche "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." Harry S. Truman GUN CONTROL: Never having to say, "I missed you." Always fire two warning shots into your attacker's chest area before putting a bullet between his eyes. Paraphrased from Louis Awerbuck |
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
Or using an integrated belt seat from a newer truck in a 67-72 with a floor that was never intended to handle seat belt loads from that kind of seat. I'd be way less worried about the bone yard belts.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
I`ve only seen ambulances with seat belts.They`re usually red,black,white,or blue since the ambulances were usually red or white paint from factory.
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
NICE SCORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I guess you could use those as seat belts, I always thought they were there to tie to the steering wheel for when you towed it backwards....LOL I know its not right but I came from the generation that thought that riding around in the bed of Gradpas truck, or the hood of the riding mower was about as good as it got in life, Don't see that much anymore....probably a good thing , I guess ? ( I fell of the mower and got ran over, that was a bad Idea even in the good old days, lucky the blade was off!) |
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
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Explain to me the diminshed safety that comes from converting a van tilt column. Mick |
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
It is funny, we are not supposed to use junkyard belts because they "might" have been in a crash, yet every time I have wrecked a car the body shop never replaced the belts (I have wrecked a few in my time). Is it really an issue, and if it is should there be a law mandating the replacement of all seatbelts that were in use during an accident?
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Re: A Long Time Coming: Shoulder Harness found in my town junkyard
A van doesn't use an intermediate shaft like a truck. It just uses a longer end. (It is hard to describe, sorry I do not have pics.) Whenever the shaft is driven in to make the van column short enough to use with the truck intermediate shaft, it takes away the "collapse area" you would normally have if you were in a collision. It does not have to be this way, though. I have used a couple of van columns in trucks, and took the inner shaft out and cut it off with a band saw so that I would still have the collapse area. I am sure someone on here has pics to demonstrate the length difference.
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