I bought a westy style seat belt mount for the rear a while back to make fitting a a 3 point belt a bit nicer. As ours is a converted panel van it has none of the factory bus mounting points so I had to make one. I used 25x50mm box section and a standard mounting bracket cut down to size:
I cut the box section at either end to sneak it behind the framework in the van:
All tacked together:
All welded up and welds dressed. The smaller piece is for the lower mounting point:
All trail fitted to the van, it was then plug welded to the side of the van via holes drilled in the van side, and seam welded at both ends:
Lower mounting point welded in and both pieces etch primed:
That should do nicely. I’ve already done the mounting points for a lap belt the other side, so we can now safely transport 2 in the back of the van!
As a small home project I’ve been sorting out the multitude of dodgy repairs and ugly bits on the wiring loom. Not many pictures of this as it’s not very exciting, but this was the type of rubbish I found. Barely crimped on insulated terminal, with scotch lock and a bare blobby solder.
Replaced with non-insulated terminals like the original, and heatshrunk soldered joints:
I had about 4 bits like the above to repair, plus a few bits that needed fresh heatshrink, the rest really wasn’t too bad.
