Harness Mounting Angles: For Matt

[Al]

 

[Matt]

That's what I said!

Lol thanks mate

 

[Karl]

Looks like Als been to his local kinder garden again

 

[Al]

Kinder Garden? Is that where Kinder Eggs are grown? (idiot) lol

I wanted an expert diagram to aid you Matt.

 

[madmatt]

The closer you can get to 180, the better it is.
I could Imagine you'd need a horrendous amount of force to shear a High Tensile harness bolt however.

I think I'll be getting a harness bar made up when I'm ready to do the seats/harnesses.

M

 

[Karl]

Kinder Garden? Is that where Kinder Eggs are grown? (idiot) lol

I wanted an expert diagram to aid you Matt.

:roll:

 

[Al]

The closer you can get to 180, the better it is.
I could Imagine you'd need a horrendous amount of force to shear a High Tensile harness bolt however.

I think I'll be getting a harness bar made up when I'm ready to do the seats/harnesses.

M

Joking aside and the seriousness of it skipping past Karl... yes you'd need a massive force. The more common issue is the further away from 180 degrees it's mounted the higher chance of the eyebolt twisting and pulling through the mounting hole - this increased tenfold when drivers (and people do!) mount it through the aluminum sidemounts.... :shock:

 

[madmatt]

Joking aside and the seriousness of it skipping past Karl... yes you'd need a massive force. The more common issue is the further away from 180 degrees it's mounted the higher chance of the eyebolt twisting and pulling through the mounting hole - this increased tenfold when drivers (and people do!) mount it through the aluminum sidemounts.... :shock:

:roll: I wasn't AT ALL thinking of doing that myself.....

I know about the mounting point that holds the bottom of the seat belt in (drivers side right and passenger's side left) but what about the other waist mounting point?

M

 

[Al]

:roll: I wasn't AT ALL thinking of doing that myself.....

I know about the mounting point that holds the bottom of the seat belt in (drivers side right and passenger's side left) but what about the other waist mounting point?

M

:lol:

There are many many variations on it with the most common being:

1) hole through the floorpan with eyebolts
2) welded in eyebolts - usually on the floorpan
3) separate subframe with eyebolts mounted on - my choice

 

[Courtney]

:lol: just read the bit about the 'kinder garden'... such an entertainer karl

 

[Al]

Lucky I left this expert diagram in my PB account; was going to delete it last week!

 

[singlespeed]

I noticed this thread a few days back, but forgot to reply at the time.

Al's pic is true to some extent, however it is certainly permisable to have an eyebolt at 90' to the direction of pull. The important thing is the orientation of the eyebolt. When tightened down, the eye must be inline with the direction of the harness (putting a straight edge across the eye, it should point in the direction of pull) Use shim washers under the head to ensure the orientation is correct when torqued down

Have a look at the Willans instalation guidelines, with the diagrams on page3 and 4
"instalation guide"

 

[Al]

I also forgot to add, although I'm sure I've written it somewhere else, it doesn't matter what the angle is never ever fix the eyebolts to alu seat sidemounts or aly anything else for that matter. The eyebolt would simply rip through in impact.