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RE: [T3] Orphan FI Thermo Switch?


> I'd put money on the
> fact that your engine was replaced with a later engine by
someone who
> wasn't quite sure what he was doing, so he left the temp switch
from
> the later engine in place when he switched the rest of the parts
> over. It was a natural place to install the wire who's proper
> destination he had forgotten.

That is what I was thinking had happened.  My engine # is
U0478258.  I forget what year that corresponds to, but I know it
is later than 69.  Since I don't have any trace of any other CSV
hardware, I have always wondered about my orphan thermo switch..

> You should just remove the temp switch, and run the wire to the
> solenoid terminal that is hot ONLY while the starter is
energized.

Let me make sure I'm with you:  On my car, wire #18 should run
directly from the ECU to terminal 50 on the starter solenoid.
Right?

I haven't actually traced that wire yet, but I thought (I guess
wrongly) based on the wiring diagram that my thermo switch was
connected directly to the starter solenoid.  But now I am guessing
the other end of that wire is on the ECU.

So what kind of information is my thermo switch giving the ECU
under the current arrangement?  And what kind of information is
*supposed* to be traveling through wire #18?  Thanks for the help!

-Mark Fuhriman

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