[Mgs] [MG-MGB] MGB Mk1 roadster seat belts

[PaulHunt73]

I'd misread your post and thought it was more forward on earlier cars, as I have a 73 with rigid stalks and they barely reach past the seat back, seat in about the mid-position http://www.paulhunt73.webspace.virginmedia.com/mgb-stuff/images/scover35.jpg.  My mounting points are 5" from the junction of the heelboard and the floor though, probably 4" forwards from the earlier position.   I thought the stalks today looked pretty long, so imagined they would hold the lap part away from the body.  That won't be the case in the earlier car, but probably would in mine.

PaulH.

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  I didn't either till I started researching seat belts that would fit. When the retractable belts were standardized on US cars, the tunnel point moved forward about a foot from the earlier position at the very rear. This allowed the fitment of the rigid stalk type receiver.  

  When specifying the belt set currently sold under 222-216, I had the rigid stalk extended so it could be used on the earlier cars as well as later. 



  Kelvin. 



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  Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 12:44 AM
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  Subject: Re: [MG-MGB] MGB Mk1 roadster seat belts



    

  Thanks Kelvin - didn't know the tunnel point had moved.



  PaulH.



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    From: Kelvin Dodd doddk at mossmotors.com [MG-MGB] 

    To: 'MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com' ; 'mgs at autox.team.net' 

    Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:04 PM

    Subject: RE: [MG-MGB] MGB Mk1 roadster seat belts



      

    Paul. 

    If you are running a stowaway top there should be no problem with bow clearance. You can use a non pendulum type of belt like the one I sourced under Moss 222-216

    http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=102183

    The inner latch support is longer than normal so it will reach back to the more rearward mounting point on the tunnel on cars earlier than 1973. 

    Kelvin. 

    From: MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com [mailto:MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:54 AM
    To: mgs at autox.team.net; MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com
    Subject: [MG-MGB] MGB Mk1 roadster seat belts

      

    Has anyone fitted inertia reels to the mounting point on the rear wheel arch - this is the forward one as pictured here http://www.paulhunt73.webspace.virginmedia.com/mgb-stuff/images/seatbelt67c.jpg, not the later one right at the back.

    Type used?  Any issues?  Or does it have to be statics on these?

    PaulH.



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