Seat Belt Switch

SEAT BELT SWITCH
The seat belt switch is a small, normally closed, single pole, single throw, leaf contact, momentary switch. Only one seat belt switch is installed in the vehicle, and it is integral to the buckle of the driver seat belt buckle-half, located near the inboard side of the driver side front seating position. The seat belt switch is connected to the vehicle electrical system through a two-wire pigtail wire and connector on the seat belt buckle-half, which is connected to a wire harness connector and take out of the body wire harness.

The seat belt switch cannot be adjusted or repaired and, if faulty or damaged, the entire driver seat belt buckle-half unit must be replaced.

The seat belt switch is designed to control a path to ground for the seat belt switch sense input of the Electro-Mechanical Instrument Cluster (EMIC). When the driver side seat belt tip-half is inserted in the seat belt buckle, the switch opens the path to ground; and, when the driver side seat belt tip-half is removed from the seat belt buckle, the switch closes the ground path. The switch is actuated by the latch mechanism within the seat belt buckle. The EMIC monitors the driver seat belt switch status, then controls the seatbelt indicator and sends hard wired chime requests to the Central Timer Module (CTM) based upon that input.

The seat belt switch receives ground through its pigtail wire connection to the body wire harness from another take out of the body wire harness. An eyelet terminal connector on that ground take out is secured under a nut to a ground stud on the left lower B-pillar (standard cab models) or the left lower cowl side inner panel (club cab and quad cab models). The seat belt switch is connected in series between ground and the seat belt switch sense input of the EMIC.