Extra red wire?

["Melissa & Jim" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 26 Oct 97, Greg Merritt wrote:

> At 12:48 AM -0700 10/26/97, Steve Bradley wrote:
> >I've got a question I hope you can help be with. There is a cable coming
> >from the left (as you stand behind the car facing the engine) side of
> >the engine compartment. It has 2 wires coming out of it. One wire is
> >green and goes to the oil pressure switch on the oil cooler. The other
> >wire is red. The red wire on my T3 has been cut. Can you look on yours
> >and tell me where the red wire goes?
> >
> >Steve B.
> 
>  Nope--mine is cut, too!!!  Anybody know what this is for?  (I'm
> forwarding this to the list.)

This will only be found on FI cars  .If you look at the fuel pump 
relay under the dash you will see that it has two red wires coming 
off it.  One ot these goes to the fuel pump and the other goes to the 
engine compartment where it is used in AT cars to power the 
electrically heated auxiliary air regulator.  On MT cars this wire 
was just cut off at the factory.

This "feature" started in 1970 when the AT heated regulator was 
introduced.  1969 AT cars use the same crankcase heated regulator as 
MT cars.

Jim
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       Melissa Kepner                                    Jim Adney
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