seat belt b post frames

[barrington]

I kept looking at the frames in the door pillar for the seat belt mounts and made my mind up to remove them before working on the interia and they are not good already booked in for sand blasting in the morning before rebuilding

Edited by barrington on Monday 15th August 22:05

[barrington]

[wedged up]

Really glad you've put a picture on here because mine are a lot worse but now I can see what I have to do .

[barrington]

The bad bit is the top of the passenger side the threaded tube that the seat belt bolts on to and the hood pivots on.
It's badly caroded it should be 20 o.d but it's 18 o.d at the end and 15 o.d at the point where the hood pivots on it
I recon it would snap in an accident so I will get new bits machined up and replace the old ones

[Yatesy350i]

Interesting to see the different way these mount on a 400se compared to a 350i.





Love the way the factory had to elongate/re-drill all the holes to make them work. Precision engineering at its best :-)

[barrington]

they look like swiss cheese all the holes drilled by the factory heres a picture of the bit I was worried about

[Yatesy350i]

It's been a couple of years since I did mine. Is that bit where the roof pivot bolt goes fixes to the car? It seems a strange place to rot as it doesn't sit in water unlike the lower mount.

Can it be welded and re-ground rather than cutting it out?

[barrington]

yep that's the bit the other side is fine im having a couple of new bits machined up then will cut the old one out and weld a new one in

[Wedg1e]

Yatesy350i said:

It's been a couple of years since I did mine. Is that bit where the roof pivot bolt goes fixes to the car? It seems a strange place to rot as it doesn't sit in water unlike the lower mount.

Can it be welded and re-ground rather than cutting it out?

It'll rust just from moisture in the air... my guess is more like the roof pivot has been acting as a rotary file and wearing it away. I bet they're all like that to some degree.

[barrington]

the car has been of the road since 1999 going by the tax disc after being passed about for a couple years neil (pistolar) rescued it and it sat in his garden for a couple years with a damaged soft top so was open to the weather so now surprise it went rusty heres a picture of the interia when neil picked it up all the parts that were taken of the car were thrown inside

[barrington]

looks a bit better now

[Wedg1e]

If it was just down to water ingress you'd expect the whole tube to be shot, not just that pivot point.

[barrington]

new top seat belt fixing made and welded in

[barrington]

all welded in

[barrington]

bottoms all repaired

[barrington]

all powder coated and ready for refitting

[mrzigazaga]

You don't hang about mate...Is this something you could do for a fellow Wedger?....

[barrington]

on a mission to get it finished dropped of at powder coaters in the morning and had them back by lunch now that's service
ok they look after me and the owner has the last 420se built he beleaves.
yes I can do this for another wedger

[wedged up]

its me ' I need a pair of these for my 400 !

[barrington]

private message me and we can sort something out