Removal And Installation: Front: Removal
To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbags, airbag curtains, knee blocker, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect the Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS)/negative battery cable assembly from the negative battery post, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.
To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service, carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor. Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the Mopar® Parts Catalog. Failure to follow these instructions may result in possible serious or fatal injury.
The following procedure is for replacement of an ineffective or damaged seat belt and retractor unit. The front retractors also include a retractor seat belt tensioner and a lower anchor seat belt tensioner. If the front seat belt, retractor or either tensioner is ineffective or damaged, but either seat belt tensioner is not deployed, review the recommended procedures for Handling Non-Deployed Supplemental Restraints. Refer to STANDARD PROCEDURE . If the seat belt tensioners have been deployed, review the recommended procedures for Service After A Supplemental Restraint Deployment before removing the unit from the vehicle. Refer to STANDARD PROCEDURE .
- Disconnect and isolate the negative battery cable. Wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before further service.
- Adjust the front seat to its most forward position for easiest access to the appropriate left or right side front seat belt, retractor, lower anchor and the B-pillar trim.
- Remove the B-pillar trim panels. Refer to PANEL, B-PILLAR TRIM, LOWER, REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION or PANEL, B-PILLAR TRIM, UPPER, REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION .
- Remove the screw (1a) that secures the front seat belt turning loop to the height adjuster on the inside of the upper B-pillar.
- Remove the seat belt turning loop from the height adjuster.
- Disengage the retainers (1b) that secure the seat belt web guide (1a) to the inner B-pillar.
- Disconnect the body wire harness connector (3) from the initiator for the retractor tensioner.
- Remove the screw (1) that secures the retractor bracket to the base of the inner B-pillar.
- Lift the retractor (4) upward far enough to disengage the T-tab (2b) on the retractor bracket from the notch in the inner B-pillar.
- Disengage the seat belt anchor latch from the seat belt anchor tensioner cable. Refer to BUCKLE, SEAT BELT, STANDARD PROCEDURE .
- Remove the front seat belt, retractor and tensioner (4) from the vehicle as a unit.
