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harnesses are to be mounted separately and apart from each other. You can see there was even a hole in the floor for the belt to be mounted properly, so someone had a 6 point belt installed properly in the car at some point.
See Picture 5
There are side mount brackets attaching to the sliders. The hardware is too small , and in
an accident that nut would rip through that bracket like hot butter. Washers are needed at a minimum.
See Picture 6
This one really made my
heart jump a beat. Below are
the rear seat mounts as seen
from underneath the car. One accident and there is no doubt they would have ripped out of the floor. The early 944s had really poor seat mount designs and were subjected to damage like this.
See Picture 7
See Picture 8
There is only one thing to
do in this situation and that is completely rebuild the mounts. This involved cutting out the cancer until I found good metal. Welding in 1/8” plate steel with stitch welded reinforcements.
The factory rear “mount risers” were gutted, and rebuilt internally with 1⁄2” plate steel to provide new threaded mounts for the
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PIC slider bolts (not yet welded to the plate in the picture). All in
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all a very major project. All the