When we was building Gordy's 53 he bought some door poppers from somebody, I can't remember who it was. These are what he got. I told him there was no way these would work on the 53. So I went hunting. What I found was the perfect door poppers. They are seat belt lock outs from 70 and early 80's cars. Ussually for rear seat belts on Gm cars which have brackets already attached. But the one I'm showing came out of a 1978 to 80 Mustang. Here it is. What ya need to do is drill a 1'2" hole in the door jam and install the popper on the inside of the jam somewhere around the latch area. Could be anywhere where you have enough room. The GM ones usually have brackets that make it pretty easy to install but building a bracket for the ford ones wouldn't be that hard. Here is what the finished product looks like. Nice and clean and they fully contract when the door is closed and they have stronger springs in them than the after market version. These worked realy well and we used the one he bought to pop the trunk where there was more room to work with. I hope this helps somebody that was trying to figure out how to mount the store bought ones when you have limited room.
could you please elaborate on the installation..?? pics of the backside perhaps..?? what's holding it place..?? how did you wire it up..?? and call me dumb, but what's a 'seat belt lock out'..?? any pics of the original use..?? I've never seem them before, that I know of....?? Thanks...!? -Snacks....
They don't need to be wired, that is used only for the seat belt operation. There is a spring inside that locks the seat belt when the door is closed. It's pretty technical but doesn't apply in this aplication. Go to your local salvage yard and open the doors of the 70's and 80's cars and it will be on the center or rear pillar. All you will see is the black piece sticking out. I didn't take any photos when I put them in Gordy's 53 but you can make any kind of bracket to hold them in place inside of the lock pillar. It's kinda hard for me to go over there to Gordy's place now that he's gone but if I get a chance I'll take some photos and post them here. It's pretty basic and once you see them it will come to you.
Ok, cool... Thanks..!! I'll check it out.... so you really couldn't undo the belts unless the doors were open, huh..?? I guess that's when they came out with those 'safety' knife and hammer combos... in case you got submerged in water..?? Damn....
please 'scuse my ignoracnce, but what do these actually do? I'm from the UK so I guess the terminology might be different are they some sort of spring loaded device that pushes the door open - i.e. something that would help open the door a little if you had shaved handles and solenoids ? thanks, Phil.
[ QUOTE ] please 'scuse my ignoracnce, but what do these actually do? I'm from the UK so I guess the terminology might be different are they some sort of spring loaded device that pushes the door open - i.e. something that would help open the door a little if you had shaved handles and solenoids ? thanks, Phil. [/ QUOTE ] YOUUUUUUUU are CORRECT phil...... on a side note phil, ya should do an intro or some of these guys will ream ya a good one.. watch out for Rashy, he's a touchy feely kinda guy..lol lol lol......joe
these are spring loaded devices that would keep the belt from retracting until the door was opened, i guess so if you wadded it all up the seat belt would not retract and then "lock" in a retracted state, restraining you too tight. you know how once you are in, door closed, if you pull the seat belt out all the way and it don't go back in? that's these.
I couldn't make it over to Gordy's place so here is a rough mockup ( and I mean rough ) of what they look like installed in side the lock pillar. You can ise what ever you can find for a bracket and like I said before the GM ones come with a bracket already.
ok, this "pops" the door open...or moves the handle to open the door? If it just kicks the door out...then how do you get the door to open in the first place?
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