{"id":5410,"date":"2025-08-15T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:32:10","slug":"rear-belt-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/08\/15\/rear-belt-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rear Belt Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I bought Darth Haul, I’ve been collecting and taking photos of other similar trucks for reference, especially for things that didn’t come with or weren’t installed in my truck. One of the things I’ve currently been trying to sort out are the placement of the rear seatbelts, which were never installed in my truck.<\/p>\n

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Looking at some of my reference photos, I finally clued in on something that wasn’t installed in my truck\u2014those two recessed mounts in the center of the floor that I found in the green truck. Darth’s tub was drilled for the belts on each side of the seat, on the floor next to the doors, but there was no provision for the center belts. One of the photos showed something that should have been clear as day to me earlier: the center mounts were probably drilled in to the vertical face of the step behind the seat, and the two recessed mounts are for a third seatbelt pair in the center of the bench.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the two recessed wells with eye hooks sticking out the top right behind the rear seat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The belts on this truck look like they’re bolted to the vertical part of the rear step\u2014they come up between the platform and the bed itself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My bed was drilled for the seatbelts on the sides of the step, but not for the clips on the wheel wells that the seat clicks into, in this same place:<\/p>\n

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So I’ve got a basic gameplay for the outer belts, but I’d like to know where the two inside belts are mounted on the step so I can put them in the right place\u2014or find one more clip-style belt and use that instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since I bought Darth Haul, I’ve been collecting and taking photos of other similar trucks for reference, especially for things that didn’t come with or weren’t installed in my truck. One of the things I’ve currently been trying to sort out are the placement of the rear seatbelts, which were never installed in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seat-belts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}