both of my front seatbelts are jammed up, they will pot pay out. How do I get access to the ratchet device?

 

i believe there is a box mounted under the middle seat or near there that i think needs to be energized to unlock your seatbelts.Maybe something happened to the box or an electrical connection. i personally now very little about how it works so Hopefully somebody with more info can chime in.

 

this is a point in the right direction, I will check fuses and then go from there......why are seatbelts electronicaly controled? thats just dumb!

 

I didn't know they did it that way until i saw something about it on this forum. So i went out and looked in my truck and sure enough i have the box and wires run from it into the back of my seats where the seat belts are.

 

Pull your seat apart. I just did this Saturday to both seats. There is a little device that will let the seatbelt pull out. It's not hard. Just time consuming. The device keeps the lock(?) off. But if it slips down it it won't the the belts come out. Who came up with this system????

 

It's designed so that in a frontal collision, (where the battery generally gets crushed....) the seat belts will immediately lock up....

 

It's not a bad system until it fails and needs to be repaired. LOL.

 

ok I checked fuses and all are good, what is the next thing I should do?
Would a fouled up battery terminal cause this?-

 

Check the connector at the funny little box under the center seat. I posted a link to a pinout of it in another seat belt thread within the last couple days.

 

yup I just checked that visually it looks good I will have to continue tomorrow, I do not have a test light. Where is the b+ fuse?

Oh I found that thread also.