Seat belts for a soft top with a roll cage?

The Lightweight has a military roll cage and I'd like to make use of it to improve on the standard spine-breaking fitments. It's fairly simple to weld on some brackets for the driver and lhs passenger and use the existing lower attachments and buckle points, but we like sitting three abreast and so I'd like to do something which isn't a lap belt for the middle passenger too.

The snag is that the roll hoop is way too high and far forward to have a strap coming down to the middle passenger's shoulders, so I'm thinking that another transverse bar need to be added at neck height. It may need to be a C shape (in plan view) so that it goes back from the hoop and then across so that it's not too close to the necks. If I get it right I could pad it to act as a head restraint (standard seats stop half way up our backs).

Anyone done or seen anything like this?

On my soft top I have a seat belt bar, which is not that high, not sure if it will fit a lightweight on the width.

Here is a piccie


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Excellent, that bar is just where I planned, but bolting to the tub with something ready-made is much more attractive than bending and welding. I'm fairly sure that the tub width will be the same, or close enough. Where did you get it from Neilly?

I got mine second hand with the frame kit.

Similar ones , or ones that do the same job are still available, iirc bearmach do one.

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BA2416 is not the same, but would probably do the job.

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or this one.


https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/a...-baruse-with-belts-ext001-8-and-ext001-7.html

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neilly said:

or this one.


https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/a...-baruse-with-belts-ext001-8-and-ext001-7.html

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Thanks Neilly, I found that one on the Exmoor site, and it specifically says 'not Lightweight'. I'm going to have to do some measuring and checking - I haven't really looked at the edge of the tub, and it may not be the width so much as how it's formed.

More google tomorrow. Need food.

Oh Darn,

Missed that, looking into it, it appears you may need to cut and shut it to fit a lightweight.
allwheeltrim have a pictue of a lightweight on their website and it has a bar fitted. might be worth a call, they may have one hidden in a back room somewhere.

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I'll give them a call, but think I may have found the problem. I hadn't really noticed, but the LW has semi-removable panels above the rear wheelarches, so there may be no strength there at all.

May be back to plan A.