So I thought I had figured out my seatbelt locking problem and spent 100 bucks on a new seatblet control timer module... Wrong... So if anyone has had a similar problem any help here would be great. here's the symptoms:

Seatbelts lock (sometimes, and quite randomly) and do not unlock until ignition is turned off

Door chime never times out when driver door is open (maybe this is normal, but every vehicle I've ever owned times out after 30 seconds or so)

Seatbelt light comes on after 10 seconds and stays on (I disconnected the seatbelt switch and no change, so I don't think it is a bad switch)

Seatbelts do not time out after 'key off', they stay unlocked and drain the battery.

it is a 98 ram club cab, and I am pretty certian that it is not the Seatblet control module -- I replaced it once with a salvaged and the problem wasn't fixed so I bought a new one from dodge and still no fix... I'm about ready to get raped for an electrical diagnostic so any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

Is that timer module the same one that locks seat belt during a rollover? There's a little box that locks up seat belts on rollovers that can cause the locking issue. If it's got a short, it could also drain the battery.

In most models of Rams, it was located under the center seat I believe, but I have also seen it, (and I believe it is this way in my truck) sticky taped to the back of the cup holder panel.

 

yes that is the control module that I already replaced... I'm thinking because it is completely sporatic that it might be a sticky relay or something... the reason that the seatbelts would lock is no power to them, the reason they would stay unlocked after ignition off is power not cutting off to them after the 'time out'... so are there more relays that control this or is there a short somewhere and only sometimes? hopefully someone out there has seen this before.
Thanks