i was at a show the other day and someone was there with a 96 T/A and he pointed out a module under my hood that he didn't have. any idea what it is? it's the module just in front of the radiator support right under the word "Ram" on the airbox



Here is a pic of a 1996 T/A engine bay without it.



and a 95 firehawk with it



so apparently it was removed after 95. any idea what it's for?

 

That is the forward discriminating module, also known as the front air bag module.

 

ah. thats kind of what i was thinking. why didn't the 96 have one? was it because of them going to the Body Control Module?

 

By the looks of it from that picture, it was removed (you can see the bolt holes in the picture). Perhaps the vehicle in that picture (and the one you saw at the show) either had the air bag system removed, OR they were in front-end crashes, and whoever fixed them never replaced the FDM.

 

could be, but i have seen 3 96 T/A's without that module counting the one i saw in person, the one above, and a 3rd one with a huge pic that i didn't post so i'd guess it was moved for 96.

 

I want to say they made a change with the air bag system in 96.

 

I just checked my 96 and it doesn't have it.

 

my 97 doesn't have it either

 

From what I have found in the past they went to a different airbag/srs system in 96 that had only one sensor and I believe a different SRS computer as well. In pre 96 cars they had 3 sensors for the srs system.