[DeTomaso] Holes in the seat belt retractor plates looks a lot larger than needed?

[jderyke at aol.com]

Those steel plates are pretty thin. So countersink the holes, and use flat-head metric allens. The conical heads will protrude thru the holes on the inside, using up the extra opening your plates have. It also means you don't need the plastic bolt-head covers that are always falling off and getting lost, and there will be a little more side space without snagging things. Plus the allens will be gr-8 while the stock hex bolts are gr-5.
 
 
 
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From: Ken Green via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Holes in the seat belt retractor plates looks a lot larger than needed?

  I want use the plates that bolt onto the inner rocker without the belt
  retractor. just bolt the belt end inside.  When metal repair was done
  by the prior owner, rectangular tubing was welded inside the rocker
  panels and there isn't room for the retractors.  I was looking at it
  last night, and the holes in the plate are much larger than needed for
  8M bolts.
  Were there special washers on these bolts, or were some kind of a
  shoulder bolt used with a very shallow shoulder (this doesn't make much
  sense).
  Thanks
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   Those steel plates are pretty thin. So countersink the holes, and use
   flat-head metric allens. The conical heads will protrude thru the holes
   on the inside, using up the extra opening your plates have. It also
   means you don't need the plastic bolt-head covers that are always
   falling off and getting lost, and there will be a little more side
   space without snagging things. Plus the allens will be gr-8 while the
   stock hex bolts are gr-5.
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Ken Green via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
   To: DeTomaso Mail List <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
   Sent: Tue, Aug 25, 2020 8:40 am
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Holes in the seat belt retractor plates looks a lot
   larger than needed?
     I want use the plates that bolt onto the inner rocker without the
   belt
     retractor. just bolt the belt end inside.  When metal repair was done
     by the prior owner, rectangular tubing was welded inside the rocker
     panels and there isn't room for the retractors.  I was looking at it
     last night, and the holes in the plate are much larger than needed
   for
     8M bolts.
     Were there special washers on these bolts, or were some kind of a
     shoulder bolt used with a very shallow shoulder (this doesn't make
   much
     sense).
     Thanks
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