Series 3 Seat belt mounting

Good evening LZ
I'm after advice on fitting front seat belts to a SWB truck cab.
I ordered a driver and passenger 3 point inertia belts from Paddocks to replace the tatty old static ones. I was hoping to find a middle mounting area when I removed the aluminium pillar cover, but of course nothing is ever simple.


Do I need the these gussetts?


Many thanks

They go at the bottom of the outer seatbox b piller corner. Not sure on a truck cab but normal hardtops use a long bracket for the top mounting.

The only recommended point is high up in the corner. The bolt goes right through the bodywork from the outside as far as I know.
Not sure the pillar is considered even nearly strong enough.

Thank you for the quick replies and sorry for the poor lighting in the photo.
Fitted currently are the original seat belts which have 2 mounting points, one up high and the other down at the seat box base. With the 3 point inertia belts, the reel needs to be mounted. I pictured this being between the two points.

I found this chap on utube fitting retractable belts, but it looks like it just bolted straight in.

British Leyland Rover said:

Do I need the these gussetts?
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Many thanks

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Flossie said:

They go at the bottom of the outer seatbox b piller corner. Not sure on a truck cab but normal hardtops use a long bracket for the top mounting.

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What ^He said

It looks like I'll need to find a bracket to fit the reel.

The top bottom bracket can be fitted using the existing mounts. It is only the reel
Itself that you need to find a way of mounting. On my hardtop I mounted this to some 10mm angle iron that was bolted to the original position on the rear bulkhead tha the static belt used. But this not an option on a truck cab.

Looking at both the YouTube clip and @British Leyland Rover picture it looks like the roof side mount through the capping has been used to mount the reel. So just need a suitable bracket making up.

Thank you dag019
I had another look tonight and lower down at about elbow height I've found a possible area to mount the reel. I'll post some pictures up if I get anywhere with it.