Here is how you fix your problem with the airbag. Remove the steering wheel
and replace it with another one. Walaa. Problem solved
later
scott miller
shelby #322
-----Original Message-----
From: JT McBride <James.McBride@GDEsystems.COM>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: DML: air bag
>>> I do have wire snippers. Anyone willing to tell me which wire to snip?
(I
>>> this a federal offense? Will I go to jail?
>> I most definitely DO NOT recommend that you take wire snippers to any
>>part of the supplementary restraint system, and not necessarily for
>>legal reasons. This is a sensitive system that involves pyrotechnics,
>>and if you do the wrong thing it could blow up in your face.
>
>I agree. The sodium azide charge in an airbag is the same thing as in
>a GI hand grenade. not to be fooled with.
>
>Still, wrecking yards have to (and do) deal with them. Maybe they'd be
>able to help, or have the instructions. The FSM has to have safing
>instructions too so a mechanic could work on the steering column.
>If you do attempt it, the first step I'd take would be to roll down
>all the windows so they don't get blown out if it inadvertently does
>go off.
>
>I believe there's no benefit to airbags. 99.99% of the benefits the
>NHTSA attributes to them I believe are due to the seat belts the
>occupants were wearing.
>
>Jim (expert on darn near everything)
>
>"You make demands, you're outta hand... You have been high-handed, setting
>super standards... We've been inflicted, you better stop fixing, pretty
soon
>you're gonna have your day, get your way." -- Debbie Harry.
> from `Def, Dumb, & Blonde'
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