Help!! Im leaking Air Bag Fluid!!
02-28-2006, 11:54 AM
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Help!! Im leaking Air Bag Fluid!! I was driving today and I noticed alittle bit o fluid coming out of the lower left corner of the pass. air bag, and I thought I would post.
03-09-2006, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Black1997T/A
Airbags do not have any fluid, they have a small capsul about the size of dime, that consists of a rocket fuel type of combustible.
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03-09-2006, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by 2kSnakeEater
I was driving today and I noticed alittle bit o fluid coming out of the lower left corner of the pass. air bag, and I thought I would post.
On a serious note, no fluid, I'm guessing your t-tops or window seal is leaking some water.
03-12-2006, 10:11 PM
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I'd say the heater core or a water leak around the t-tops or windshield.
I'm an industrial maintenance technician at a plant that makes airbag inflators for pretty much every major auto manufacturer (excluding Ford). Airbags don't have any type of fluid in them. An airbag inflates due to an electric pulse that detonates a "enhancer" which is kind of like a blasiting cap, then ignites a gas generant material, that is basically a stabilized version of rocket fuel (kind of like it's mixed with play-doh that has dried out). This is just for driver's and passenger's side air bags, side curtain bags are filled with a mixture of helium/argon, or CO2/argon, a light load of the gas generant, and the electric device that starts the reaction. Pretty Neat, we get to blow them up all the time at work. We have chambers that are built to test them by measuring pressure when they inflate. They make a pretty good "pop", and when the seams of them are welded (by lasers to reduce heat), every once in a while one that isn't sealed all the way will go off in the machine, that'll really wake you up.
I'm an industrial maintenance technician at a plant that makes airbag inflators for pretty much every major auto manufacturer (excluding Ford). Airbags don't have any type of fluid in them. An airbag inflates due to an electric pulse that detonates a "enhancer" which is kind of like a blasiting cap, then ignites a gas generant material, that is basically a stabilized version of rocket fuel (kind of like it's mixed with play-doh that has dried out). This is just for driver's and passenger's side air bags, side curtain bags are filled with a mixture of helium/argon, or CO2/argon, a light load of the gas generant, and the electric device that starts the reaction. Pretty Neat, we get to blow them up all the time at work. We have chambers that are built to test them by measuring pressure when they inflate. They make a pretty good "pop", and when the seams of them are welded (by lasers to reduce heat), every once in a while one that isn't sealed all the way will go off in the machine, that'll really wake you up.
03-14-2006, 03:00 AM
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If I had them, they'd probably fire me on the spot. This place is tight lipped about the process that goes into production. They're worse than the baked bean people on the commercail with the golden retriever.
03-15-2006, 08:23 PM
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YEA! You have a good job right there. Plus lots of job security since some cars have 8 airbags in them now. Absurd!
So, an airbag has to be 100% guaranteed to work right? Glad you guys are on the watch!
I bet you can't go into any airports right after work though!! HAHAHAH
So, an airbag has to be 100% guaranteed to work right? Glad you guys are on the watch!
I bet you can't go into any airports right after work though!! HAHAHAH
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Yeah, if they loose an initiator then no one leaves until it's accounted for. Every part is weighed and tracked by a serial #, all the propellant weights, press heights, pressures, lot numbers of parts that they're assembled from and so on are recorded in the event that a failure happens, they'll be able to track down the cause.
And about the job security, our orders have went up over 200% in the last year. The place has doubled in size in the last year, and added three new lines.
And about the job security, our orders have went up over 200% in the last year. The place has doubled in size in the last year, and added three new lines.
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A buddy at a dealer saw a newb mechanic take an impact wrench to loosen the airbag module....His head was also in front of the steering wheel. Needless to say he got knocked the f--- out! 
03-17-2006, 01:38 AM
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Why did the impact wrench make the airbag go off? It is sealed and would take a large charge to ignite the starter. I think the deployment voltage is 24 volts. Just asking. Wondering if ambient voltages could make it go off. Not seeing how a tool that didn't place a voltage acrost the starting coil made the airbag go off.
He must have really not of known what he was doing!!
He must have really not of known what he was doing!!
