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Re: Seat Belt Safety

To: "Scott Allen" <scottinarl@hotmail.com>, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Seat Belt Safety
From: Carl W French <cfrench@cybertours.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:35:29 -0500
At 04:07 PM 12/30/00 +0000, Scott Allen wrote:
>Hi,

Start worrying. The lucky part is that you discovered it by yanking on it 
and not by hitting the belt before the windshield. They are parts and they 
wear out. the cloth get deteriates and gives way under the same stress. New 
belts are pretty cheap, get some.

Carl French EMT-P
67 MGB
80 MGB


>Yesterday I was rooting around in my BGT and I grabbed the chest belt for
>balance.  To my surprise, the inertia reel didn't lock when I yanked it.
>After extracting myself from under the steering wheel I did the same to the
>belt on the passenger side with the same result.  Is this by design on the
>74's or should I start worrying?

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