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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
The black retractor hooks then bolts to the rear pillar. Here is a pic of my 1977 C10 retractor. The bolt is a star head bolt.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Eastwood sells spray cans of cast iron, steel, and faux cadmium color paints.
Real cad and zinc plating chemicals are really really toxic so you don't really want to get into plating them.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
TKCLR, your restoring abilities - seatbelts & seats are really amazing!! I am sooo tempted to send you my belts!! I still need to get my sunvisors & just maybe I might send a shipment your way.... hopefully!
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Thank you and I would be happy to do your seatbelts. You can also message me thru my FB Page for my seats. The link is on my Signature.
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FB Page for my Seats Belts https://www.facebook.com/73-87-Chevy...9439407476735/ Restoring Seatbelts: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=809750 SOLD My 86 Build:http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=654972 Past Restored Bench Seats:http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=715398 PayPal link to pay for your items: https://www.paypal.me/TKCR Last edited by TKCR; 08-11-2020 at 06:39 PM. |
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
I haven’t received one.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Nice work. Do you install new webbing ?
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
No. Through cleaning. Dye if needed, for the fading.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Got another set done for someone. These are Charcoal.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Restored a set of 1987 Burgundy belts for someone. These were the typical dirty and faded belts. The metal buckles had a bit more rust on them, causing some pitting. I did replace the buckle cover since there was pitting of the metal. Also sandblasted the mounting tabs of the rust.
I will also be the Blue set for the same customer. So check out the Before and After pics.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
After pics!
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Man those belts look fantastic.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
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FB Page for my Seats Belts https://www.facebook.com/73-87-Chevy...9439407476735/ Restoring Seatbelts: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=809750 SOLD My 86 Build:http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=654972 Past Restored Bench Seats:http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=715398 PayPal link to pay for your items: https://www.paypal.me/TKCR |
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
So I’ve been working on the Blue 87 belts. Didn’t get a really good before pic of them, but what I do have. I just get started on them and the remember, crap I didn’t get any good before pics! So here’s what I have. On the buckles, I changed out the cover and inner GM emblem button. On of those wasn’t even working. Of course i didn’t get a picture of that, but when I took the buckle apart, it had a wad of chewed gum in a wrapper. It was jammed inside the buckle! No wonder I didn’t work.
Pics 1-3 are before 4 & 5 are after
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
These here, I restored for a good friend of mine. She is doing the interior of her 1966 Chevy Truck. At the present time, she has aftermarket belts, which are too long, and there’s no retractor. So I restored a set of 73-75 belts. The buckle covers were cracked, so we got some new replacement Buckle Cover kits. They came with new buttons and emblems. I sent her home with one of the cracked buckle covers, that I dyed real quick with Dark Saddle, to check the color match. So the retractor casings & buckles are done in Dark Saddle. The webbings are Camel Tan, so those we’re throughly cleaned and dyed with the original color.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Here are the AFTER pics
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Nice work, as usual Tina. Those look great
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Thank you! These took a lot of work!
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Working on another set of Belts for someone, 1987 Blue. This is something that I do when restoring seatbelts. I take apart the buckle, to clean & lube. This would also be the time to replace the cover, if it is pitted with rust. But occasionally I find foreign objects inside the buckles, that keep them from functioning properly.
Pics are what the buckles looked like Before. 2nd pic, is of the paper stuffed in the buckle. 3rd pic, After cleaning and reassembling.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
The belts in the above post are completed. Here are the pics.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Very nice. I have a set of aftermarket lap belts in my '67, but they are not the same.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
No they are not. Aftermarket serve their purpose, but they are not very appealing to look at. I have absolutely fallen in love with the older, wide buckle lap belts.
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Re: Restoring OEM Seatbelts
Once you've been at it for a while all those little bits and pieces you keep in bins start to come in handy.
Very nice work as usual
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