Re: IML: Seat belts-1960/1969 and ABS 2 cents

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

My 69 LeBaron has three sets of seat belts in the front and three sets in the back. What was standard on these cars?

ABS is here to stay. I first had it on the rear wheels of a 1990 Isuzu PU and it rapidly stopped working. I never tried to fix it.

Since then it has been on all four wheels of all new vehicles that I have purchased and I have had no issues. The only time that I know I have ABS is coming to a stop on ice. Then sometimes the ABS kicks in. Usually when this happens I have hit the brakes deliberately hard to make the ABS kick in. When it is icy I especially want to know what my car's stopping capabalities are so getting a safe refresher on the ABS is valuable. 

I believe that the Viper does not offer ABS.

I would guess that in 99.9% of driving you will not need ABS.  You do not stop as quickly (maybe) with ABS but you will probably stop straighter. Thus you may rearend someone in your lane slowly as opposed to having a head-on with someone in another lane. Of course, allowing adequate stopping distance should allow you to avoid either unpleasant scenario.   

----- Original Message -----
From: aeyn
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Subject: Re: IML: Seat belts-1960
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:50:22 -0700 (PDT)


Donn,
I know that in my 69 LeBaron 4DRHT, there were dimples in
the floorpan indicating where holes were to be drilled. I found
the locations for the rear heater water lines this way and also
by looking at the FSM VERY CLOSELY. As far as I know the rear
heater / Airconditioner is only briefly mention in the 69 FSM.
As for the anchors for the seat belts, make a 3" square of
1/8+" metal with a centre hole in it for the bolt to go through.
You want to distribute the strain on the floorpan over a wider
area and NOT just the hole through the floorpan. ALSO, use stout
large washers to assist in doing that. As for drilling through
the floorpan, a good trick to do is to drill a VERY small hole in
the floorpan to locate the center of the LARGE hole and have
CLEARANCE from other objects beneath. In using the VERY SMALL
hole you can easily fill it if it is not in a good location.

Æyn

--- Donn Reese wrote:

> My car didn't come with seat belts. I bought a set from Bob
> H.....but how do you install them?
>
> I haven't found a picture or installation discussion in any of
> the publications. They obviously need to bolt through the
> floorpan, and it seems the nut should go on
> the bottom side. Assuming there is a nut as I
> only received the bolts. My big
> problem is locating where to bolt them down. Could someone
> with a similar year Imperial share a couple pictures of where
> their seat belts are bolted down? Under the back seat would be
> great too. Email me off list.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a knock-out in the floor pan for
> the bolts or do I need to drill holes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Donn Reese
> 1960 Custom 4dr HDTP
>
>
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