Way to disable passenger airbay in '97 TJ?

Please beware that in certain states (such as Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland here in Australia), this may be illegal. :)

J.

I'd love to be in Australia and faced with that dilema. Always wanted to visit. I have a friend living outside of Sydney and I keep threatening to fork over the $$$ and go visit.

OK I'm from Spain and I'm interesting in having that airbag being temporaly off in a '97 TJ.

As far as I read there is a fuse (at the fuse panel) to manage that. But I'm not sure about which one.

Thank you in advance, Fidelio

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It is illegal in New Zealand as well. If a car/truck came with an airbag from factory, it cannot be removed or disabled as that would void the "warrant of fitness". If you have an accident like that, you will be walking up the proverbial creek.....

TW

There are two fuses for the airbag system behind the glove compartment door. Both must be removed, they are back-up for each other. I would not remove them however. Plus for offroading, the air bags won't activiate just from a rough or bumpy trail.

Jerry

Fidelio wrote:

Thanks ... I'm in that proverbial rock and a hard place. My daughter (age 6) and I have to go out of toen this weekend unexpectedly and I don't have a rear seat right now. There are cut-off switches in newer cars specifically to disable the passenger-side airbag as kids and small adults can incur severe head and neck trauma just from the force of the airbag. Whether it's best to leave them on or not is another matter. I just wanted to know how so I'd have the choice. I'm thinking of my child's safety and personally don't know which would be the better option.

I assume the fuses control BOTH driver and passenger airbags?

Maybe I should rent a car. :)

Thanks,

Rob

Thanks

Rob, both fuses control both air bags. You can remove one of the two fuses and both air bags will still work as each fuse was designed as backup for the other fuse. To disable your air bags, you must remove both fuses... which then disables both airbags.

Jerry

RobM wrote:

You can push their set back on the rails. I think the danger lessens if the distance is over a foot from the bag to the child.

Personally, I would not disable the air bag as I would rather they suffer a concussion than the alternative.

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Airbags are designed for brain dead adults who refuse to use seatbelts, nothing else.

They Kill small people even in fender benders. That has happened up here recently.

Children are not supposed to be in the front seats anymore because of this.

I don't know about a TJ, but the CJ passenger seat does not go back. I am right on the dash of a TJ in the passenger seat and would likely get both legs broken at least if the damn bag went off.

Mike

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First off they are not air bags. They are sodium azide bags. If you think sodium azide is safe try to buy some anyplace but in an airbag.

Secondly, law or no law, I take them out. I disconnect their firing circuit, at least, and have gone as far as removing the pax side one and replacing the steering wheel with a hokey aftermarket one to set the standard one aside.

The ideal solution is to fit the Airbag cutoff switch. It looks like this

(looks like this just has the bezel). Anyhow, to work it you just insert the ignition key and turn a key switch; a warning light is illuminated on the bezel.

Regards, Dave Milne

The NHTSA has a form that you can fill in, and the dealer will install a kit for you that disables the passenger airbag just like in the later models.

Actually, in the States we found that people put kids in the front seat of trucks, and the Jeep Wrangler is listed as a truck. We have a means of adding a passenger side airbag bypass switch to keep children in the front seat safe. Well, as safe as can be expected riding in the front seat ...

My '02 TJ had a passenger side air-bag cutoff switch standard. My '06 TJ does not have a cutoff switch.

This is progress???

Tom

I wonder how so many of us lived before we had this wonderful government going all out to protect us.

I doubt it was really accurate but several years back I saw an article where some> Actually, in the States we found that people put kids in the front seat of