[6pack] TRF seatbelts?

[Navarrette, Vance]

 	Folks:

	I tried taking the belts to an auto upholsterer, but he did not
want to do them. I inquired at my favorite LBC shop, and they said they
would reweb them for me, but I had to disassemble and reassemble the
retractors (everybody, it seems, is afraid of lawsuits). So I popped
mine apart and British Auto Works rewebbed the belts for me. I cleaned
and lubricated the mechanisms (one was frozen by rust!! Yeow!) and they
are back in the car working just fine, thank you. I repainted them in
hammered silver, and they look like new.
	The only caveat to my experience is that you must be very
careful during disassembly or the retractor spring goes SPROING! and you
spend an hour rewinding it while muttering creative but anatomically
unlikely combinations of a Kangol engineer and the retractor. Other than
that, it is work for idiots (and that means I am VERY qualified).
	If you want to do it all yourself, you can get 2" black webbing
from fabric stores, but I would worry about the applicability of that to
an automotive application. It is the proper size and very robust,
however. I used that stuff to reweb my soft top. Maybe an auto
upholsterer would sell you the webbing?

	Vance



-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces+vance.navarrette=intel.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:6pack-bounces+vance.navarrette=intel.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Foster, Stan
Sent: December 17, 2007 8:50 AM
To: Robert Lang; John VanNorman
Cc: 6-Pack
Subject: Re: [6pack] TRF seatbelts?

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I recall that Vance rebuilt his originals although I don't remember if
he ever
said where he got the webbing from. Vance, any chance of a quick recap
on
original seat belt refurb ?

Stan