Well, something weird is going on with that wire. Just past the brown plug w/ black boot, some of the rubber coating is stripped off of the wire and someone has spliced in a piece of wire that goes to a grounded nut on the firewall. The TESPO seems to have made a mess of some of my wiring.
Oh, and ANOTHER question: there is a flat ground strap attached to one of the nuts that mounts the coil. It's about a foot and a half long and it leads NOWHERE. It's just hanging there. Where's it supposed to go? I'm a little nervous. My interior light and trunk light weren't working before I started screwing around today. I dropped the fuse box out and had a look behind it. Lo and behold, there were two connecters (a pair of black and a pair of red ones) that weren't connected to anything. The black ones seem to have fixed my dome light, but I still dunno what the red ones did. Wiring in these cars is bad enough without stupid crap like that going on. At 01:24 PM 5/21/01 -0700, Denis P. Goldman wrote: >That black wire is your o2 sensor signal wire. >Hopefully youre not losing too much of the signal, I'd >replace at least the wire asap. The o2 sensor is >grounded through the cat. conv., the two white wires >are for the o2 heater. >HTH, >Denis G. > >--- Patrick Austin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Behind the throttle body, between it and the >> firewall, there is a >> connector. The wire going in is black and the wire >> coming out is black. >> One side of the connector is brown and one side is >> sort of a boot and is >> black. The wire then goes into a rubber tube along >> with two white wires >> and goes off under the car. Is this black wire a >> ground for the O2 sensor? >> The wire is in really, really bad shape and I'm >> wondering where it's >> supposed to go. >> ************** >> Patrick Austin >> [email protected] >> (617)782-9115 >> ************** >> _____________ >> List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com >> To remove yourself from this list, send mail to >> [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in >> the body of your message >> See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com >> Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org > > >===== >_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >Denis P. Goldman >[email protected] * [email protected] >http://go.to/denis-goldman > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > ************** Patrick Austin [email protected] (617)782-9115 ************** _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
