frexe

how do you get under the tunnle( center console) to install a seatbelt mounting plate? Im going to use 85.1 seats in a 85.5 that does not have predrilled holes for seatbelts.

frexe

bump

M758

jack up the car and crawl under.
Drill hole and back up with a large plate.

V2Rocket

There's a bump under the carpet on the tunnel where the belts used to hook on. Drill it out there.

Mongo

I'm going to do this too. Is there any way we can get pictures of the area to drill under the car???

shiners780

Drill right through the hole in the reinforcment plate in the center of this picture:

Mongo

Aw man. I was hoping to avoid pulling the carpet up. I just reglued it down a year or 2 ago.

Mongo

What are the measurements from where the body's sheet metal connects to the base of where the rear seats are, and the height from the point where the hole is located?

Measure like this:

| <---base of rear seat sheet metal
|
| <--measure from here_> o <--hole
|--------------------------------

Mongo

Not to be a post *****, but I hope that makes sense...

frexe

Ill look for it, I laid down sound deadening all over the car so itll be kinda hard to find. Oh by the way arent you suppose to put a nut behind the tunnel?

Mongo

Yes since the hole on the late cars is not threaded.