_________Thanks for the information

 

Thanks for the info

 

It depends on how hard and fast you tug on it. A slow pull and they feed fine. Much of a tug and they lock up. And don't YANK them!

Edit: Had to wait until I got back to the truck and had already fastened the bed down before I thought to check this.

RwP

 

Thanks Ralph. I may buy it. Another question for you. Are the angle brackets that come with the kit really strong? They dont look obviously heavy duty in the picture

Thanks

 

They're pretty stout. Again, that's the mounting kit; it's designed to support a 250 to 300lb human in impact after several years.

RwP

 

Thanks Ralph

 

to find out what kind of seatbelts, drive down the street at about 25-30 no more than 35 and slam down the parking brake, the brake lights will not come on so the computer will think you hit something and lock the belts before it picks up the park brake signal light (the instrument cluster is the last thing the computer checks when it thinks there's been an accident) they will only lock for about a second (just long enough for the computer to evaluate whether airbags are needed, determine that there is no body damage(99 or newer), and detect that the parking brake light is on)
I learned this trick from drivers ed, they said to do to when test driving a used vehicle that you want to buy, to make sure the seatbelts work. Don't go over 35 because the airbags could deploy in older vehicles that deploy SRS from sudden stop rather than impact (96 or before)

 

Thanks. I will concider tryng this. My 93 Dakota doesnt have air bags.

 

I don't know why Lator is suggesting that; the seat belt lock is only mechnical.

And the computer doesn't check the instrument cluster; for our trucks, it has no IDEA what the cluster is or has.

The ONLY interconnection is the tach; and it's driven off the ECU.

(Speedometer for 94-96 is driven off the VSS, which drives the ECU. Not the same thing as the ECU driving the speedometer.

RwP