Brian83
TJ Enthusiast
My 99 Sahara has all those options as well along with the Airbag switch
Passenger airbag switch delete
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My 99 Sahara has all those options as well along with the Airbag switch
The 2001 TJ Sport (built 09/00) that I purchased recently has the Passenger Airbag switch and the same items as Vasq posted above.
TJRick
TJ Enthusiast
My [loaded] 1998 Sport model also has the fold and tumble rear seat, but I do not have a passenger on/off switch.
I think 1999 was the first year that was offered.
Ddiemer19
New Member
Can you elaborate on this process. I have a 1997 without the switch. I am looking to install it. How bad was it and what did you use to figure out how to do it?
Thanks!
From what I’ve read the passenger side air bag switch was only installed if the customer didn’t order a rear seat. Check this paragraph out from the FSM.
• Passenger Airbag On/Off Switch - Models without a rear seat are equipped with a passenger airbag on/off switch, which is located in a dedicated opening on the passenger side of the accessory switch bezel in the lower center stack area of the instrument panel.
I will try to take some pictures tomorrow, but it's very straightforward. The switch has 4 wires IIRC. One ground, one switched power (for the indicator light), and the other two are for cutting the wires going to the airbag itself. You cut the airbag wires, and wire the two remaining switch wires in between those. It's a simple switch to cut power to the bag.
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Resurrecting an old thread.
My son's 01 Sahara came without a switch and the airbag light is on (edit: it has all the wiring for the switch and an empty socket where the switch should be, but no switch itself. Sorry if there's confusion) . Which wires need spliced together to bypass the switch? Home electric I'm good with, but these diagrams are foreign to me.
Also, any idea what this 3rd wire is in the under-console location? Long enough to reach the storage/sub area. Factory console subwoofer wire?
My son's 01 Sahara came without a switch and the airbag light is on (edit: it has all the wiring for the switch and an empty socket where the switch should be, but no switch itself. Sorry if there's confusion) . Which wires need spliced together to bypass the switch? Home electric I'm good with, but these diagrams are foreign to me.
Also, any idea what this 3rd wire is in the under-console location? Long enough to reach the storage/sub area. Factory console subwoofer wire?
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In my head, it looks like yellow stripe gets tied with brown stripe and then orange stripe and dark green stripe get tied together. Am I looking at these right? Just tying together either side of the switches?
Any electrical gurus that might confirm. This 91 has connectors I'm not seeing a replacement for on ebay. Thanks
91?
What did you do troubleshooting wise to see what is making the light come on? Is your only reason for trying to rewire it to make the light go out?
What did you do troubleshooting wise to see what is making the light come on? Is your only reason for trying to rewire it to make the light go out?
Sorry, 01
The Jeep came with no switch, just a blank hole where the keyed pass airbag switch should be. Clock spring is all good. Assuming there's no pass airbag if the light is on
I was going to suggest installing a new switch, but everything I see online sells them for 97-00 only. Not sure if they stopped having it as an option at some point. Is anything plugged in to the airbag control module?
That's what i saw too.
I'll double check the control module when he gets home from work today.
I think what you'll need to do is just buy a couple of resistors to link pins of the connector which can then be taped up and tucked out of the way.
For the passenger airbag to be on there needs to be a reistance of 175-190 ohms between the light green/orange and light green/dark green wires.
A 180 ohm resistor should work for that, I'd probably double over the leads of the resistor before pushing the ends into the connector to be sure of a better connection.
The light green/brown and light green/yellow wires are for the switch off indicator lamp. If the airbag control module (ACM) thinks the bulb is blown it will light the airbag lamp. The bulb used is 12V 25mA (0.3W). Here, a 480 ohm resistor should mean the ACM thinks a 0.3W bulb is present as the current the resistor draws will be the same. Again, I'd double the wires ends and push them into the connector. I'm not sure if you'd get a 480 ohm resistor as 470 is a normal resistor value and should look to the ACM as close enough.
With the resistors inserted, when the ignition is turned on the airbag lamp should go out after the initial lamp test. If it does, tape the resistors to the connector and tuck it out of the way.
For the passenger airbag to be on there needs to be a reistance of 175-190 ohms between the light green/orange and light green/dark green wires.
A 180 ohm resistor should work for that, I'd probably double over the leads of the resistor before pushing the ends into the connector to be sure of a better connection.
The light green/brown and light green/yellow wires are for the switch off indicator lamp. If the airbag control module (ACM) thinks the bulb is blown it will light the airbag lamp. The bulb used is 12V 25mA (0.3W). Here, a 480 ohm resistor should mean the ACM thinks a 0.3W bulb is present as the current the resistor draws will be the same. Again, I'd double the wires ends and push them into the connector. I'm not sure if you'd get a 480 ohm resistor as 470 is a normal resistor value and should look to the ACM as close enough.
With the resistors inserted, when the ignition is turned on the airbag lamp should go out after the initial lamp test. If it does, tape the resistors to the connector and tuck it out of the way.
So, we finally found out Dbag PO had cut the wires going to the passenger airbag just before the connector to it, so we soldered on some leads, butt crimped back to the factory wires, put in the resistors and POOF!!! WORKED PERFECTLY!!
Thanks so much @jonny jeep for all your help!!!
Thanks so much @jonny jeep for all your help!!!
Great to hear that did the trick for you. Good to know the resistors worked in case others have a similar problem.