AIR BAG disconnected!! No wonder!! Steering wheel removal

[ARKQX33V6]

we wan to figure out why the cruise and horn dont work either.
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The horn is a high amp draw from my 97 QX4 book the power from the battery thru a 10 A fuse to the horn relay contacts to the horns. The horn is controlled from the horn switch to the ASCD steering switch, thru the spiral cable and to the coil of the horn relay.

Cruise or ASCD control has 5 outbound controls to control speed located in Section EL

Remember this is via a 1997 QX4 manual so wire numbers may differ or even control technology. What does your book show?

[Chuck Tribolet]

Horn and Cruise are on the spiral cable too. Everything on the steering wheel is on the spiral cable.

Lisle part number 26530 is a set of Tamper-Resistant Torx including T50. If you have O'Reily/Kragan/Checker/Schuck auto parts
stores, they can probably get it in a day or so. About $30.

[ARKQX33V6]

Pathofinder, you do not want to remove the air bag light, you want to diagnose what is up with it. That can be done with no tools by using the door switch etc. but you'll have to read and follow the procedure(s) in your specific manual. But since you are having a whole lot of problems from the PO or the previous owner's mechanized butcher you should do what you are doing. Find out what and where you stand with the butchery of the electrics.

With that removed plug still dangling out of socket, with a 12 V voltmeter ground the one lead to the car's negative ground and with the other lead try the poles on the plug to verify that as it sits that plug is dead on all poles, then redo this with the other plug. One of the poles on either plug should come alive 5-12V with both plugs still apart.

The plug that is alive will be the feed. Then you can go on from there. If in any attempt to use a jumper cable and you want to start jumping things out use a jumper cable with a 5 A fuse in line. That 5 a fuse will protect things that should not be shorted and/or jumped. The use of the electrical pull out sheets with schematic should help, be sure to use the EL section and the restraint section...you may have to interpolate the drawings to and between sections.

Mount the fuse into an enclosed fuse holder with 2 pigtails and install the fuse holder in series with your jumper. If and when the fuse blows it will protect you from a burn, a self indicating type of fast blow fuse would be helpful in letting you know that the fuse has blown otherwise a blown fuse will make the jumper not a jumper.

Before closing that plug verify what you have.

And remember to record what you do DO NOT RELY ON YOUR MEMORY.