Lightning steering wheel swap

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Old 10-29-2007, 03:30 PM
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Lightning steering wheel swap

I have a 2002 Lightning steering wheel with the cruise buttons but no airbag to go in my 2003 Lariat. The lightning airbag cover is different than the standard F150 but is the airbag itself? Anyone have the part number on the lightning airbag? anything else I should know about swapping it in place of the standard? Thanks in advance!

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Old 10-29-2007, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by PROxac
I have a 2002 Lightning steering wheel with the cruise buttons but no airbag to go in my 2003 Lariat. The lightning airbag cover is different than the standard F150 but is the airbag itself? Anyone have the part number on the lightning airbag? anything else I should know about swapping it in place of the standard? Thanks in advance!

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Airbag should be the same, but I wouldn't mess with it, unless you really know what you're doing, one wrong wire and BOOM
 
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Old 10-30-2007, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by TRITON_2002
Airbag should be the same, but I wouldn't mess with it, unless you really know what you're doing, one wrong wire and BOOM
It plugs in. Not like splicing the wires together or something. If it is the same one then all that has to be done is removed the standard F150 cover, plug it in and mount it? I can do that
 
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Old 10-30-2007, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by PROxac
It plugs in. Not like splicing the wires together or something. If it is the same one then all that has to be done is removed the standard F150 cover, plug it in and mount it? I can do that
Sure, it should be plug and play, I'm just saying, what if the wiring is messed up inside the airbag where you can't see it......Murphey's law.....
I don't know if you've had an airbag deploy in your face, but its not really fun.
 
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Old 10-31-2007, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by TRITON_2002
Sure, it should be plug and play, I'm just saying, what if the wiring is messed up inside the airbag where you can't see it......Murphey's law.....
I don't know if you've had an airbag deploy in your face, but its not really fun.
The airbag is the original OEM one that is in my truck now. What would be wrong with it or mis-wired?
 
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Old 10-31-2007, 09:27 PM
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hes saying that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
 
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just pull the airbag fuse before you start working on it
 
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by t-rev
hes saying that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
I am used to that. I doubt an airbag would do this to me though



Originally Posted by MmmBuckles
just pull the airbag fuse before you start working on it
The battery will be disconnected per the removal / installation instructions for the steering wheel...if the lightning wheel does use the same airbag as the standard f150 wheel
 
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Old 11-01-2007, 11:36 PM
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well i hope it all goes well, good luck
 


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