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Jul 17, 2018 | 08:37 PM

frank5079

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Air bag question

I am slowly finishing up my '95 F150 300 w/ an M5OD gearbox to 351 swap. I have the radiator core support in place and I am laying and arranging the engine harness. The 351 and harness are from a '95 F250 with auto trans. So here's my question; I have mounted the two airbag sensors onto the core support but there are no corresponding plugs to plug into. Am I going to have to find a '95 F150 engine harness with a 351???

Jul 17, 2018 | 08:53 PM

Conanski

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Airbags have nothing to do with engine control so if that wasn't on your truck originally don't try adding it now.

Jul 18, 2018 | 04:19 AM

frank5079

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Actually, my truck has the driver's airbag; but yesterday as I was trying to finish laying the engine bay harness, I noticed that the airbag impact sensors have nothing to connect to....

Jul 18, 2018 | 10:52 AM

rla2005

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It looks like the crash sensors do go through bulkhead connector C202. So if you are swapping in the complete wiring harness from the donor F250, it will not have the wiring for the airbags.

Jul 18, 2018 | 01:11 PM

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It looks like the crash sensors do go through bulkhead connector C202. So if you are swapping in the complete wiring harness from the donor F250, it will not have the wiring for the airbags.

I still have my original 300 six engine bay harness; would it be too much of a PITA to remove the two connectors and corresponding wires and go through that C202 bulkhead connector?

Jul 18, 2018 | 02:11 PM

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It would have been much easier with a harness from the same year V8 engine model. Best bet is to trace out all of the wires that go through the C202 connector for each harness. Move the missing pins/wires on the donor harness from the original. Or reinstall the original harness, then just move the wires needed for the engine harness connector C101.

Sep 8, 2018 | 10:18 AM

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Well I got an engine bay harness for a '95 F150 with a 351 and everything works including my wipers and radio which didn't work with the F250 harness, but my airbag light is still flashing.....what gives???