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05-29-2011, 05:39 PM
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Shoulder Belts
How difficult is it to have them installed? Thanks
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05-29-2011, 06:26 PM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
If you have all of the proper threaded holes already in your cab it should be no problem at all. If you have to make threaded holes - I don't know how you would do that.
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05-30-2011, 08:37 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
A little more info would help. You could put a threaded plate in or cut a section from a donor truck.
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05-30-2011, 10:30 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
I don't recall ever seeing a truck these years w/o the hole already there. But maybe never paid that much attention. if you don't have one you could always cut a hole,fab or buy a backing plate and use a expandable brass nut insert. Should hold it. You can use a fish wire to pull it up. Run a bolt through the plate and coil some wire up like a spring and thread it onto the bolt and ust it to pull up. You could tack the plate in remove the bolt then install the insert. But you should have a hole already
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05-30-2011, 10:37 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
Do you know what years they started having shoulder belts?
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05-30-2011, 10:43 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
don't get me to lyin but the 71 or 72's had plugs for the belts. I think California State required them before the rest of us and gm new they were coming. I know 77 had them. Look behind the trim panel. there should be a hole for them. the panel won't. I bet you will find it there
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05-30-2011, 10:56 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
I don't own one yet, I'm just trying to figure it out. I wouldn't be comfortable driving without one.
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05-30-2011, 11:02 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
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05-30-2011, 11:06 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
Man! I wish I would have known that yesterday. Didn't bid on a sweet 79 Sierra yesterday because of it. The search continues...
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05-30-2011, 11:27 AM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
79 should have shoulder belts already unless someone removed them.
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05-30-2011, 11:28 AM
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05-30-2011, 02:26 PM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
My '74 had lap belts, but had the shoulder belt upper nuts capped off. I am pretty sure shoulder belts have been an option from '73 up, but weren't standard until a couple of years later.
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05-30-2011, 06:14 PM
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Re: Shoulder Belts
I in the middle of putting, 03 Tahoe seats in my wifes crew. next i will be tackling the seat belts right now I have the stock lap belts but will be adding shoulder belts sometime this week. the front already has shoulder belts. but the back has a plug. after popping out the plug. I discovered just a hole. I planned on welding a nut to a plate. Then drilling a hand full of 1/4 inch holes in the c/piller. Fish the nut and plate up to the seatbelt hole and then rosset welding the plate to the c/piller. Then grind the welds down and make it ready for paint. At least that is the plan
  
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05-30-2011, 08:15 PM
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