On 4/15/02 6:37 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes i mean the cold air intake...the wires on the sencer weren't long enough > to reach the intake so the sencer isn't hooked up to anything It is unlikely that the Air Intake Temperature Sender will have any effect on your coolant temperature. The AITS tells the computer what the air temperature is in the intake. Since Air is a gas (i.e. not liquid or solid) its mass (amount per volume) can change drastically with temperature. The computer uses this information to determine how much air is going into the engine. It can then adjust the amount of gas (the liquid) it uses to keep the proper gas/air ratios. (Sorry, I'm not real good at explaining physics) Anyway if the AITS isn't actually in the intake then the temperature it sends to the computer won't be 100% accurate. It will instead send the temperature of the air in your engine bay. This difference in temperature probably won't be all that great, maybe a few degrees. Will this hurt anything? Unlikely. It may through off your emissions a little and hurt your fuel economy slightly but it is unlikely anything much worse would happen. I would be very very surprised if it had anything to all to do with the problem you've describes of 'boiling liquid'. My AITS falls out of my intake on a regular basis and it has been that way for the last three years. I have noticed no loss of power or other ill effects. Remind me at the next garage day and we can splice in some longer wires so that it will fit back into the intake. - Cris SPOC NE web site: http://www.spocne.org
