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Honestly, that's essentially the exact same anchor used on many cars
in the 70's. I wasn't surprised at all.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
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On 12/18/2013 8:20 PM, Himes, Terry (397C) wrote:
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<div>Holy Crap! That doesn't look safe to me! </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">From: </span>Mike Drew <<a
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Date: </span>Wednesday,
December 18, 2013 7:00 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">To: </span>"<a
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span>[DeTomaso] :
Stock shoulder harness mounting system<br>
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size="2" color="#000000" face="Geneva">Hi guys,<br>
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I bet few of you have ever had the opportunity to
poke around inside the chassis of a Pantera to see
how the shoulder harness/interior firewall cover is
retained. All you can really know is that there are
two big bolts which thread into some mysterious
cavity, and are responsible for saving your life in
the event of a crash.<br>
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I had the opportunity to learn all about this with
my car, back in 1996. The guy restoring my car
couldn't figure out what kind of bolt went into the
hole, and tried to run a tap through there and
change the threads. The tap broke off inside the
hole, leading to a major nightmare for me, an
all-day project to fix it.<br>
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Since I spent the other day cutting up the remains
of a wrecked Pantera, I took it upon myself to cut
the firewall open so I could show you guys what's
going on in there. It turns out there is a stamped
steel piece with curved, radiused edges (presumably
to impart some sort of strength?) that is
spot-welded to the inside of the firewall channel.
A simple hardware store nut is welded to this plate,
and that's what the bolt threads into.<br>
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(In my car, what actually happened is that the tap
jammed in this nut, and then the welds broke,
leaving the nut spinning freely with the tap trapped
in place, and it then had to be cut out etc. etc.)<br>
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Here are a couple of photos worth a thousand words
each:<br>
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