Airbag/Steering Wheel Wiring Time

[LynchburgCSI]

I was finally able to track down one of these. More unnecessary parts for a car I don't own! Anyways. I know a few of you guys have put these wheels in the gen 3 (Eye8Pussies). Basically I have a few wiring questions. Bunch of threads on this I found searching... but they're all in theory.

Horn: Self explanatory. Splice the old camry wire to the new one on the corolla steering wheel.

Airbag: The new airbag is dual stage. Skip the low speed deploy and wire up the high speed only. (Did someone do this?) I'll have to grab the red connector, correct? As in, the red is the high speed and the black is the low speed, right?


The trick is wiring those two wires in the camry's system. I can tap into the camry's airbag wiring here... at the blue and yellow wires:


Basically I need to know if the wiring is blue to yellowy-green stripe / yellow to yellow OR blue to yellow / yellow to yellowy-green stripe. I dont have everything I need to test with me for the next month, so I'm asking.

Cruise Control: The steering wheel I have didn't come with cruise control, so the first step will be dremeling an opening. The next step will be wiring. I'm think i'll use the camry cruise control stalk and wiring, since I KNOW that works on the camry. The trick will be retro-fitting it into the steering wheel. Maybe with custom acyclic plates. It's probably going to end up sticking out at a weird angle... but this wheel already has it like that

I'd prefer to have it closer to an OEM style which you can see below. It sticks out REALLLLLYYYYY far. So this will be a challenge.

You can see that the camry's one is fairly stumpy (below).

Here you can see the holes for where the cruise control stalk would screw in IF this wheel had it. #2 is obscured and you can't see it very well.

Maybe if I hack apart the standard corolla cruise control and swap the circuitry... I don't have one on front of me at the moment though.

References:
http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh....php?p=2966980
Steering Wheel Swap
WTB: Black OEM Steering wheel...G3 Camry SE OR G8 Corolla S
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/801395/7#SteeringWheel

[uibalnme]

HAHA! you stole the pic of the wheel I have. The one on the tan couch with the cruise control stalk.

From what I can tell, you'll just have to cut an opening big enough for the stalk to go through. Aside from the electrical connection, the stalks are the same, mounting points, and all.

I think I posted these up a while back...

The stalk at the bottom is the gen3

as you can see the only difference is the harness.

I did A LOT of research, and from what I gathered, it doesn't really matter which wire goes to which. I think of it like model rockets. The power travels through the wires, heats up the igniter, then the igniter sets off the propellant, and that inflates the airbag.

Anyway, that's what I'll be going by.

Man, I really gotta jump on this mod for my car. I've had the wheel for, going on 3 years now, and still haven't installed it. Plus, I have the parts for a rear disc conversion. That settles it...Saturday's going to be a busy day!

[LynchburgCSI]

Haha hoped you wouldn't mind! I actually have the COROLLA S wheel.... not the GEN 5 CAMRY wheel like you have. Take a look again at the cruise control on the COROLLA wheel:

[uibalnme]

oh yeah, I see the different shaped stalk.

I also just noticed that you stole the pic of the airbag connectors that I got from another site!

[LynchburgCSI]

Originally Posted by uibalnme

oh yeah, I see the different shaped stalk.

I also just noticed that you stole the pic of the airbag connectors that I got from another site!

Originally Posted by LynchburgCSI

References:
http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh....php?p=2966980
Steering Wheel Swap
WTB: Black OEM Steering wheel...G3 Camry SE OR G8 Corolla S
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/801395/7#SteeringWheel

Remember that thread? That's where I got them.

It's gonna be annoy as hell trying to figure the cruise out. I need to tinker with the corolla stalk. Junk yard time!

Anyoneeeeeeeee for airbag or cruise insight?

[uibalnme]

Originally Posted by LynchburgCSI

... Junk yard time!...

What's wrong with that? Those places are gold mines for us!

Here's a few things I picked up for just the price of admission.

Oil caps with the old school Toyota logo


I'm up to 5 of these things now. The 4 in the pic above, and one on my valve cover.


Every time I go to a bone yard, and don't find anything I really need, I end up grabbing these oil caps as consolation prizes. I grabbed 2 on my last trip to the bone yard!

[LynchburgCSI]

for info on my original post.

[EEngineer]

eye8pussies has stock camry wheel

only people i know who have this wheel is Tony and Me...and you soon

i don't have CC anymore, so i can't answer you that

but i believe either black or white was ground...and the other red was live wire =D

since the matrix airbag is a dual stage, you are going to lose one stage

so take your pick....full pop or half pop

red is full pop i believe

[LynchburgCSI]

Okay. Two wires running from the red connector. Which color from the connector to which color on camry's harness?

[EEngineer]

i think camry's harness has different colour depends on J-vin or 4T vin...i can't tell you for sure...and i forgot as well

=[

[LynchburgCSI]

Open your wheel up and look! It's only 2 screws!

[EEngineer]

i did it 6 times today!! plus i'm dead tired and not near my car

[LynchburgCSI]

Hahahaha do it later.

[EEngineer]

Originally Posted by LynchburgCSI

Open your wheel up and look! It's only 2 screws!

and they are not regular screws, they are hex tipped
took me a while that all it needs was a hex head...

LOL

[LynchburgCSI]

Originally Posted by EEngineer

and they are not regular screws, they are hex tipped
took me a while that all it needs was a hex head...

LOL

Torx T37 or T17...IIRC I took my stock wheel on and off plentyyyyyyy of times.