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Re: Late model seat swaps,Pleasse school me
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Originally Posted by StingRay
If a seat has integral belts you have a lot of reinforcing of the floor and seat mounting points to do. Failure to do so will result in an extremely unsafe seat installation. Our trucks when equipped with factory buckets had reinforced floors and they did not even have integral belts. When the belts are attached to the seat a forward impact on the vehicle will result in the seat trying to rotate downward through the front floor mounting points and also trying to pull the rearward points out of the floor. In a roll over the seat is likely to simply become detached from the vehicle with you in it flying out a window. These floors were never designed for anything like this. I design retrofitted seat and belt installations for RV's and some of what I see here scares me. I've participated in destructive testing sessions and I've seen what does and doesn't survive. Some of what I see here will fall into the doesn't survive category.
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How much reinforcing do you need to do? Can you put out some ideas?
Smitty
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