Need help selecting a safety harness

George Roffe geo3 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 19 19:30:49 CDT 2004


Khiem, spdracer at mail.utexas.edu wrote:

>I thought another issue was that when people mount the harness without a bar,
>they anchor them low (bottom of rear seat area) instead of horizontally from
>shoulder height (as if there were a bar there).  thought this could lead to
>spinal compression probs or something..... could be wrong...

That is another issue.  Some people install harness bars to get around this
however and they are *still* dangerous IMHO.

It's also a problem if the belts are too long.  Belts stretch a % of their
length.  The longer the belt, the longer the absolute stretch.

George Roffe
Houston, TX  USA
http://www.nissport.com


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