Seat Belt problems and solutions
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Seat Belt problems and solutions
The seat belts in my 77 have been deteriorating for years. The driver’s side belt was so rotten that it I had to tie it in a knot where it had shredded. I checked dealerships, junkyards, truck suppliers, this website and catalogs for years looking for seat belt to no avail. I found Seat Belt Solutions on the Internet and sent the belts to them. They replaced every thing except the retractors with new parts. The new buckles are factory original and if you are going to show the truck they will even put a new parts tag on them.
I am in no way affiliated with them and am only putting this information out in case someone else is having the same problem that I had finding seat belts for their own truck. They are expensive. It cost me $280.00 to have the belts redone.
I am in no way affiliated with them and am only putting this information out in case someone else is having the same problem that I had finding seat belts for their own truck. They are expensive. It cost me $280.00 to have the belts redone.
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This is the kind of information I like to see posted, whether it good or bad, it all helps us in spending our hard earned money in the most benificial way possible.
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PS: says I must spread some around first,.......
Rep points on the way!
PS: says I must spread some around first,.......
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Turn around time
I have other vehicles to drive so I wasn’t in a hurry. I shipped UPS ground and they shipped back UPS ground. I shipped the belts to them on the 3rd. They called me on the 7th with the price and I gave them my cc number to authorize the work. They shipped them back on the 11th and I received them on the 17th. I would imagine that the turn around could be less than a week if you sent them over night and had them shipped back overnight. You have to realize that in my case the shipping was all the way from the left coast to the East Coast.
I gave up on junkyards. Every truck that I looked at in Arizona had seat belts as rotten as mine and the California junkyards won’t even sell them. The dealerships have all new kids working the parts counters and they just give you that old deer in the headlight stare when you inquire about the possibility of a later model seat belt working in your truck. So, good luck trying to find any. If you come up with any good ideas be sure and post them because I have found, by the searches I have done on this forum, that their are a lot of other guys having the same problems that we are.
I gave up on junkyards. Every truck that I looked at in Arizona had seat belts as rotten as mine and the California junkyards won’t even sell them. The dealerships have all new kids working the parts counters and they just give you that old deer in the headlight stare when you inquire about the possibility of a later model seat belt working in your truck. So, good luck trying to find any. If you come up with any good ideas be sure and post them because I have found, by the searches I have done on this forum, that their are a lot of other guys having the same problems that we are.
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I checked with LMC, Autokrafters & Blue Oval several years ago when I first started looking for new seat belts and they only offered aftermarket lap belts. Maybe they added the retractor style later. I never thought to check back to see if they added them later. It might be a good idea to check with them to see if they now offer the retractor style belts and the price.
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