Restoring OEM Seatbelts

[Willowrun]

I hadn't paid much attention to the amount of things going on in a retractor until you just posted the blue set up......there's a lot going on in there. Great work as always, and the attention to detail is very impressive.

[TKCR]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

I hadn't paid much attention to the amount of things going on in a retractor until you just posted the blue set up......there's a lot going on in there. Great work as always, and the attention to detail is very impressive.

I can’t remember if I had posted this part of the cleaning process on a Charcoal Black set I did previously. This is what is causing a lot of these retractors to slow down. Whether it’s from getting wet from the window being left down during its lifetime. Or something being spilled, or even someone attempting to clean them themselves. There are people that think laying them out in the driveway and spraying with a power washer is a way of cleaning them. But if the mechanisms get wet, that’s bad. And there is no way of drying them completely, without pulling up the casings and exposing the mechanisms. Those small springs get rusty and break, that’s bad! But here is another good example.

[Jeepwm69]

Originally Posted by TKCR

I can’t remember if I had posted this part of the cleaning process on a Charcoal Black set I did previously. This is what is causing a lot of these retractors to slow down. Whether it’s from getting wet from the window being left down during its lifetime. Or something being spilled, or even someone attempting to clean them themselves. There are people that think laying them out in the driveway and spraying with a power washer is a way of cleaning them. But if the mechanisms get wet, that’s bad. And there is no way of drying them completely, without pulling up the casings and exposing the mechanisms. Those small springs get rusty and break, that’s bad! But here is another good example.

So are you able to source replacement parts like the little springs, etc, new?

[TKCR]

Originally Posted by Jeepwm69

So are you able to source replacement parts like the little springs, etc, new?

No, not new parts. They don’t make new parts for these belts. There have been a few belts, that I specifically use for parts. Like this part, I had 2 different belts where this was broken. So I was able to swap this part out with my spares.