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Seat belt top anchor point/tower
Hi all,
my Mx5 (91 Vspec) has (well, had now) an after market roll bar fitted (not a stylebar, this thing is steel, braced and heavy), basically it was fitted ot the seat belt towers, and braced to the a bracket mounted on the parcel deck, it was fitted by the previous owner, years before I bought the car, and that was about 3 years ago. Anyway, took it for a warrant of fitness today and it fails, because the seatbelt top anchor was bolted through the rollbar bracket (ie part of the rollbar bracket is sandwiched between the top of the seat belt tower, and the seat belt bracket), and this apparently requires certification as it consitutes a "structural modification". The guy doing the warrant told me to take the bar off, come back and get the warrant, then put the bar back on again (and next time, make sure the hood is up when taking it for a warrant so nobody will think to check it). To cut a long story short, I need somebody who knows how this top portion of the seatbelt is assembled from the factory, because I'm pretty sure I've got a missing part. I've taken some pictures... First one: http://host.gogo.co.nz/100_0301.JPG This shows the top of the seat belt tower, the rollbar base basically sat on top of that and was also bolted to the back of the tower - leaving the gap underneath, and the top of the seat belt bolted through it, with two spacers sitting between it and the bracket to raise it up to the correct height. Second one: http://host.gogo.co.nz/100_0302.JPG I had in the boot a couple more spacers which seem like they must have been from the original seat belt assembly. They fit nicely in the hollow with the top of the spacer level with the top of the tower. Third one: http://host.gogo.co.nz/100_0303.JPG But if I were to just sit the two spacers that were atop of the rollbar bracket (to bring the top of the seat belt to the correct height), that just looks really dodgy, like going to bend at the first sign of stopping in a hurry dodgy. I think that what I'm missing is a plate that must sit atop that tower, with the large spacer underneath it, and the two small ones on top. Can anybody confirm this before I go get a couple cut? |
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