Need tie down ideas for metric fine thread

**ruaphu** · 15th January 2015, 18:33

Well i used to use the old seat belt anchor points that was sewn to the end of the belt. I got a hand full from one wrecked car. Cut off the old belts, drilled it out a bit to fit one of those climbing clamp thingies. Then simply slipped the modded part onto seatbelt bolt and done it up, done.

No messing about, strong as and tons of movement and space to fit any type of tie down or rope. They lasted years, i gave em away with the van.

Cheers

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**Ocean1** · 15th January 2015, 19:11

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Yep, it is a standard, but not a common standard.

It's extremely common in the auto industry. In fact it's a bit unusual to see an ISO coarse thread.

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Yep, it is a standard, but not a common standard. I went to Anzor (my usual go to) and that's when I realised it wasn't a "normal" standard... For some reason they don't do metric fine other than nuts, and gave me another place, which also drew a bit of a blank... That link is good, very much what I was thinking of, just not sure how it's rated load wise...

ANZOR tend to specialise in stainless/marine stuff. Why don't you just use the original bolts, they'll be higher spec'd than most options you'll get from the likes of EDL anyway. AND you'll know where to find them when you come to put the seats back.

**Gremlin** · 15th January 2015, 19:16

Originally Posted by Ocean1

ANZOR tend to specialise in stainless/marine stuff. Why don't you just use the original bolts, they'll be higher spec'd than most options you'll get from the likes of EDL anyway. AND you'll know where to find them when you come to put the seats back.

Well the initial plan was to replace with ones with eyes on the end... obviously that didn't work out too good

Now it's putting something on the thread/bolt to tie from and re-using the existing hardware - yes, good point about finding them

**Ocean1** · 15th January 2015, 19:26

Originally Posted by Gremlin

yes, good point about finding them

Damhik....

**Reckless** · 15th January 2015, 19:32

Re tap them and get new bolts when you refit the seats??

**neels** · 15th January 2015, 19:40

If you can find correctly theaded capscrews, hollow box with a hole right through bolt size then drill the top out to head size to get the bolt through and tool access to do it up. Either hook through the top hole or through the box section.