INSTALL WIKI for installing a new steering wheel

[VX KAT]

Good advice, thanks Jack!

[tom4bren]

Additionally, the airbag module is classified as a pyrotechnic device. When you "lay the airbag safely to the side"; that should mean that you place it where it won't be dropped or damaged by falling items.

I've never had the 'pleasure' of experiencing an airbag deployment but Murphy is a permanent resident in my work area.

[VX KAT]

Additionally, the airbag module is classified as a pyrotechnic device. When you "lay the airbag safely to the side"; that should mean that you place it where it won't be dropped or damaged by falling items.

I've never had the 'pleasure' of experiencing an airbag deployment but Murphy is a permanent resident in my work area.

I treated the airbag like it was nitroglycerin!
I wasn't sure if it could deploy/blow once the connectors were detached.
Plus I wasn't sure if it could blow up from the back side as well as the front side, so I was uber careful to keep my headoff to the side and away from it when I was removing/reinstalling it. (I'm assuming maybe only one of the two wires was for the airbag, the other for the horn maybe?)

[tom4bren]

Ya done it right ... obviously since you're able to type today. Warning was just for the next victim ... errr ... participant!!!

http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...21&postcount=7

Look at page 9J-11 of the attachment

[tom4bren]

I treated the airbag like it was nitroglycerin!

Learnin' those big techno-words from Hubby???

I wasn't sure if it could deploy/blow once the connectors were detached.
Plus I wasn't sure if it could blow up from the back side as well as the front side, so I was uber careful to keep my headoff to the side and away from it when I was removing/reinstalling it.

When secured to the steering wheel, all the force goes outward. When being held in your hand, basically 1/2 of the force will come back towards you!!!

(I'm assuming maybe only one of the two wires was for the airbag, the other for the horn maybe?)

Prolly

[VX KAT]

oh, forgot to mention the torque spec for the fixing nut:
Torque: 34 N·m (25 lb ft)

[Ldub]

Nice write up Suzee...

Ya done good...

[Ldub]

Them old airbags pack a pretty good wallop...BANG

Notice how the guy "rag dolls" on his trip down from the ceiling...

Might have been a wee bit of al-key-hol involved...

[Triathlete]

Nice write up Suzee...

Ya done good...

We might make a mechanic out of her yet....next thing you know we'll hace her crawling underneath, getting dirty and changing axle shafts