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'78 Trail Duster Seatbelt Question

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loosewheelbob
The seatbelts in my '78 TD are in rough shape, and I don't think they're stock. I'm wondering what type of belts they came with. Were they just lap belts, or the kind in cars today, or were they some kind of 2-belts system, so you could have a shoulder belt with the hardtop and just lap belts with no top. I'm asking this because it's almost ready to get back on the road, and I don't want to get in trouble for have no seatbelts or the wrong kind.
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Sparky McShakerton
i think all the pre-80 rc's came with just lap belts and shoulder belts were optional.
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M
Well, my 78 RC only has lap belts in it.
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My 79 only came with lap belts from the factory, Shoulder Belts were an option it didnt have
Dave
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M
My 77 Trail Duster has shoulder belts that latch in separately onto the lap belt latch. I've always wonder why they where seperate and not till this post did I think about the top comming off. Uhumm, that makes sense.
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The 78 I have now and the 76 Trailduster i did have both had lap belts only I do notice an indentation on the door frame where a shoulder strap might have gone had that option been utilized. I do not know that for sure though. I attatched a shoulder strap seatbelt to the roll bar in my old 76 and it worked out good.
Rodney
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I used a set of belts from an early 70's duster, the 2 peice clip on shoulder belt setup. My roof has the hole for the shoulder belt, so I just bolted it on. It originally had only lap belts.
william
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StandardByker88
we robbed the belts out of a junkyard td, dunno what year...mid 70s i think. all it had was black lap belts. we migrated those into our 66plymouth belvedere II
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loosewheelbob
Thanks for the answers everyone, I think I'm gonna run lap belts for now, since that's what the factory gave me. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Sparky McShakerton
i forgot to mention none of my two rc's have the shoulder belt either. i dont think i've seen a pre-80 rc that had them either
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StandardByker88
it was an option on some. like the SEs and stuff...
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