Seat belts

[scenic760]

Hey All!

I am waiting to get my Burb back from the paint shop and I have been trying to get all the interior pieces done up so they are ready to install. I am looking at the seat belts and have seen some great restorations on this an another site. One post showed a tutorial and what I think are the earlier buckles being disassembled and cleaned but I didn't see one for the steel type buckles..Does anyone know how to remove the covers on these to clean them out/lube? Also, someone else had a thread looking for replacement plastic sleeves with no resolution..it looks like the Seat Belt planet ones are what the restoration peeps are using?

 

[scenic760]

Quick update...I still wasn't able to crack the code on getting these things apart so I pulled the belts out as far as thy could go, clamped them with a spring clamp and washed them in a tile mortar tub with some simple green. They came out awesome!

With the buckles, I just shot them out with some compressed air and spray silicone and they worked perfect after that..

 

[expoke]

Mine won’t retract well anymore. Did you have that problem and if so how did you fix?

 

[scenic760]

Mine won’t retract well anymore. Did you have that problem and if so how did you fix?

I actually did not have that problem... there seem to be very few people wanting to give seatbelt advice, probably from a liability perspecitve which I understand, but I would assume you need to really get into the mechanism and find out whats going on..