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Car Forum / Jeep / October 2006Advice needed!!! Front bumper
I am going to replace the front bumper on my 2004 Wrangler Sport. The question is what trips the air bags? Are the connected to the bumper or can I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom The Airbag Control Module is located on a mount on the floor panel transmission tunnel, below the center of the instrument panel. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto:LWHughes3rd@aol.com http://www.billhughes.com/ > I am going to replace the front bumper on my 2004 Wrangler Sport. The > question is what trips the air bags? Are the connected to the bumper or can > I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and > hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom What trips the airbags is a sensor near the gear box IIRC - certainly nowhere near the front bumper, so you can remove it without worry. The sensor fires when you need help (takes quite a lot to set it off by all accounts), but the bigger and thicker the bumper is, the less shock will be absorbed and the more will go through you, so it will most likely fire at a lower speed impact than it used to. Obviously the thicker the bumper is, the more knocks it can take, but the chance of twisting your chassis on the big one increases. Dave Milne, Scotland > I am going to replace the front bumper on my 2004 Wrangler Sport. The > question is what trips the air bags? Are the connected to the bumper or can > I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and > hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom the only impact sensor on the wrangler is in the airbag module > What trips the airbags is a sensor near the gear box IIRC - certainly > nowhere near the front bumper, so you can remove it without worry. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and > > hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom From the FSM, Page 8M-3: "The impact sensor provides verification of the direction and severity of an impact. One impact sensor is used. It is located insude the Airbag Control Module (ACM), which is secured to a bracket on the floor pan transmission tunnel inside the vehicle". .. which is not a million miles off what I said. Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ > the only impact sensor on the wrangler is in the airbag module > > > What trips the airbags is a sensor near the gear box IIRC - certainly > > nowhere near the front bumper, so you can remove it without worry. > I am going to replace the front bumper on my 2004 Wrangler Sport. The > question is what trips the air bags? Are the connected to the bumper or can > I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and > hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom I've taken my TJ bumpers off many times. No worries, mate! tw  Signature_____________________________________________________________________ 2003 TJ Rubicon * 2001 XJ Sport * 1971 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'." Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940 Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase') A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80" wheelbase, 1/4-ton capacity and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II. _____________________________________________________________________ Just replace the dang thing - I've done it several times. Your sensors wont care, they are not in the bumper. -jenn >>I am going to replace the front bumper on my 2004 Wrangler Sport. The >>question is what trips the air bags? Are the connected to the bumper or can >>I remove it without worry? Any and all comments will be helpful and >>hopefully amusing. Thanks Tom |
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