'92 Taurus airbag disengage

[formzy]

Just a another question regarding the disengagment procedure for this Taurus of the air bags. I have the shop manual and they instruct you to make a conection with a special tool into the airbag connector when you remove the airbag. I've taken multiple GM models off and usually disconect the yellow srs conector etc. Is this step necessary on the Fords?
Those that have removed the air bags on this vintage Ford please let me know
. Thanks

p.s. I'm only interested in case I have to remove the steering wheel to get to the plastic cancelling cam in case the mult-function switch isn't broken

[thisnametooktolong]

IF you have ever seen how powerful the Ford air bags are…… you would say yes. Are you trying to bypass the air bags, or change the air bags. If bypassing the air bombs


Go to a u pull junk yard and cut the harness at both ends keeping the srs plug. Then take the body end and solder the two wires together. Take the air bag end and solder in 2.2 ohms of resistance. Un hook the car battery and wait a few min. Then plug in the shorted wire to your airbag and plug the 2.2 resistor to the body/SRS computer end.

Now you are done. The air bag will never go off and you wont get an idiot SRS light either. Ford is required to sell a kit with an on/off switch to do the same thing but! If you order one they will never come in. The Feds passed a law to defunk the airbags for people with Heart conditions, osteoporosis, etc. But I guess that Ford is just are afraid of lawsuits.
By the way…… it is illegal to bypass your airbags in many states, without the idiot light being on. So you may want to forgo the 2.2 ohm resistor and just plug the bags back in for inspection. Trust me you will get use to the light blinking at you for the first min of driving then staying on. After you plug the airbags in the idiot light will stop blinking codes at start up, and staying on when driving.

And remeber if the bag goes off when you are working on it....... its not my fault

[formzy]

I'm not trying to bypass anything. All I want to do is disengage the bag in order to remove the air-bag assembly in order to work on the column. As my question states, I may need to replacing the cancelling cam. That's it. Simple enough.

[thisnametooktolong]

just pull the battery for a few min, then do what you need to do. Unless you take a hammer and smack one of the bells, or the SRS control box, the bag should not go off. Since the invention of air bombs back in the early 70s I have never ever seen one go off in the junk yard. But remember that when a car gets to the yard… step one remove the battery! Remember that there is a large capacitor inside the SRS control box that takes a time for it to discharge. Before NY passed a law saying that you cant sell used air bags, I pulled hundreds of the darn things at the junk yard and sold them on FleaBay. (Now the maggots cut the covers and bags with a knife) I never had one go off when pulling, or in the mail.
But in any event I always keep my face as far away from the darn things as I can. There should be 4 screws on the back side of the steering wheel and a plug underneath that goes to the clock spring
Most of that danger danger stuff is to limit Fords liability of some numb nuts doing something like back probing the SRS wires with a noid light. Or some one working inside the car as some one smacks the front end back in shape with a sledge hammer. It actually takes a fair amount of current to set the things off. Unless you have some huge amount of static electricity flying off your body I would not worry about it.

Just for fun you may want to do a you tube search. There is some guy that likes to blow things up with air-bombs. It is rather amazing to see what a ford bag will do to an old fashioned refrigerator. Or see a dorm fridge launched into the air.