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[rodandtom]

Hi All,

 

I wondered if anyone else had seen this problem. As you may have read in one of my previous posts. I put the Minispares inertia reels in to the back of a '94 Sprite, in the pre provided hole in the C pillar.  The reel is at about a 45 degree angle (so at about 4 - 5 o'clock). I just got my son to sit in the back and try the belt and that position does not work. My boy is about 5'10" so not the tallest and he found that the seatbelt position would really twist the belt and if it was used like that then before long it would be knackered.

 

I'm going to have to put an extended bracket in. There's already a bracket there but it needs to be a lot longer to lift the position of the reel. It just needs to be four or five inches higher I reckon.

 

Has anyone else seen this? How did you solve it?

 

Cheers,

 

Rod

 

[skoughi]

Have you bolted the reel onto the c-pillar? I think I'm reading it wrong!

[rodandtom]

yes I have

[skoughi]

There should be a bracket down in the companion bin fixed to the rear wheel tub, that's where the reel goes. The metal loop that slides up and down the belting goes up on the c-pillar.

[Ben_O]

Can they be mounted to the front of the inner arch tub down in the companion bin a-la-a MPI spec?

[Tupers]

There should be a bracket down in the companion bin fixed to the rear wheel tub, that's where the reel goes. The metal loop that slides up and down the belting goes up on the c-pillar.

Those brackets only appeared in the 90's so comparatively few Minis have the proper bracketry for inertia reel belts. 

 

Before that only static belts would have been fitted. 

[skoughi]

Ahh ok, I got my brackets from an spi and welded them in so that makes sense. Does the ones that rodandtom has bolt up on the c-pillar then tupers?

[humph]

See the link below. For inertia belts the mountings are on the rear arch (see item 41). For the static belts the mountings are items 51 & 52, these are welded the boot side of the rear bulkhead behind the hole directly above item 51 in the pic.  Both use the mounting in the C pillar for the top mount.

 

http://www.somerford...&id=1&chapter=5

Edited by humph, 16 August 2015 - 07:58 PM.