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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 08:10 PM
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air bag light blinking

it blinks on and off constantly...just bought the truck (94 f150 302 auto) anyone know why? I took the dash bezel off and stuffed papertowel behing the bezel so I wouldnt have to see it... First I tried pulling the bulb, but that made the computer in the truck buzz for 30 seconds every time you turn the key..

I pulled the codes on the truck nothing about an airbag came up..
 
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 09:30 PM
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Count the flash's. It will start flashing, count those flash's, it will pause, then start flashing again. If it at first flash's 3 times, a pause, then flash's 4 times. You have a code 34.

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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 09:39 PM
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bad clockspring.
 
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 10:33 PM
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what is a clockspring? and should i worry about it or just ignore it?
by the way my horn and cruise does work fine
 

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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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stuffing paper towels sounds better?

go to the sticky on tech stuff on the opening page in this forum and look fot the how to fix it right.

what did the codes come out as?
 

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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by quicklook2
stuffing paper towels sounds better?

go to the sticky on tech stuff on the opening page in this forum and look fot the how to fix it right.

what did the codes come out as?
it is blinking 3 2
 
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 10:58 PM
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32 is clockspring.

read this post:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...airbag+code+32
 
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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by quicklook2
according to that link, it says the air bag wont deploy as long as there is a code, thats fine by me...

as stated earlier the horn and cruise work, and you cant see the light blink now that i had fixed it with the "shoptowel" trick PN7890Z lol

any other drawbacks, if i just leave it be and dont mess with it?
 
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Originally Posted by jdphillips73
according to that link, it says the air bag wont deploy as long as there is a code, thats fine by me...

as stated earlier the horn and cruise work, and you cant see the light blink now that i had fixed it with the "shoptowel" trick PN7890Z lol

any other drawbacks, if i just leave it be and dont mess with it?
Mine has been blinking 32 for over a year... no isses really. I dont know about the air bag thing, but hopefully I will never had to find out if its true or not.
 
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 03:41 PM
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Mine is blinking 5-1. Anyone know what that is?
 
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