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Suburban Seat Belt Help

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danno676

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I have a 1987 Chevy Suburban that the PO replaced the rear shoulder belt retractors and latches with some sort of universal set up. The problem is that the latch/buckle piece is way too long and puts the buckle about the center of my daughter's stomach, not safe.
I've been searching ebay with minimal luck, and my local salvage yards don't seem to keep anything that old around.
Any suggestions?
Do any other vehicles interchange with a 1987, should be the same up to 1991? Maybe a newer body burb?
The interior is tan, if that helps.

Thanks
 
Thanks. Such a pain in the butt!! I had a complete shell that I sent off some time ago, seat belts still in it. I never thought I would have this problem.
 
Bringing back an old thread. I have searched on Ebay and my local salvage yards with little to no luck. The one's that had the belts broke their tools trying to remove them. I messaged Ebay listings for the front belts and their replies were that they don't even bother to try and remove the rears, for the same reason.

Could someone here possible take a picture of their middle/second row 3 point factory belts? Specifically something around the floor mounting area. Again, the ones I have just barely work and I do not trust them for my kids to be restrained in. I am going to try to see if I can find something similar to go in their place.
 
I also had trouble removing rear suburban belts. I bought a set to swap into my crew cab when I changed interior color. Broke 2 different torx bits trying to get them out, they were quality bits too. Since the shell was being scrapped, the seller let me cut them out. I used my cordless sawzall and just wacked a hole with a hammer to get the cut started. I cut a circle around the mounting area and pulled it all out. The sheet metal was surprisingly easy to cut with a decent blade. Had them all out in 15 min or so. When I got the belts home I just clamped them in a vise and used a grinder to cut the head off the bolt.
I would think that you can interchange the belts from many years. I had no trouble putting mid 80's belts in my '91 crew cab.
 
That's what I was figuring to have to do. I am about to buy a cordless sawzall to take to the yard with me, the one that will let me go back there. I did also find a nice aftermarket supplier called seatbeltsplus.com
They have some pretty nice options including updated safety features. I am waiting on word back from them to see if the have the child safety feature built in to the belts, if so I am going to replace the four corners.
Thanks for the reply, if I get the others I will post a review on them and perhaps that will help other members.
 
You might be able to use a small pipe wrench on the head of the torx bolt with a cheater pipe to unscrew them instead of a torx bit--we often snapped those bits off at the junkyard almost every time trying to remove seat belts,if the nut in the floor wasn't heated up cherry red first,GM used some type of killer locktite on those bolts..
 
That's what I've been reading..and seeing. I plan on going there with a sawzall if I go back but from what I am seeing on here is that the front belts out of a standard cab are the same as the middle row belts of a Suburban.

Is there any way that anyone can post a pic of the middle row Sub belts? Please?
 
danno676 said:
That's what I've been reading..and seeing. I plan on going there with a sawzall if I go back but from what I am seeing on here is that the front belts out of a standard cab are the same as the middle row belts of a Suburban.

Is there any way that anyone can post a pic of the middle row Sub belts? Please?
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I am also looking for pictures of the middle and third row seat belt mounts, especially the shoulder harness.

I too am in the process of looking for seat belts for my suburban, so I've been following this thread hoping to get my questions answered too.
 
Dewalt has a pretty nice cordless grinder now. It might be a good alternative to the sawzall for this situation. I use alot of cordless tools professionally and am fairly impressed with the newer 20V dewalt. The battery life and power are far superior to the 18V I used for years prior. Good luck.
 
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