Found this under car....

[timshosvt]

My 92 has been towed 3 times over the past 3 years for CE light, rough running and no start conditions. The last spring it was towed for no start, the mechanic said he couldn't find anything other than non-descript codes and couldn't reproduce a no start condition or CE light. I asked that he keep the car and drive it, which he did, for a week and had no issues. I ran the car around 6-700 miles after that and had no issues.

I put my SVTF away for the winter this past November and have driving the SHO without issue until last week when car would periodically run rough with CE light. CE light would not come on during commute to work, but would on way home. Last trip home had a no start condition for 35min at gas pump. When engine did start, it idled around 2,000 rpm for more than 3-4 min then settled in at around 1200. I did not unhook battery during this incident. The check engine light was brighter than ever and never did go out after this incident.

The following day, I was unable to pull codes. No signal at connector and EEC would not go into self-test mode. So I pulled the car up on ramps to look for coolant around timing cover, o2 sensor wires pulled off, etc. and found this.....

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I know it's not the MAF connector. Car isn't driven much, so I haven't done the 60K since 1989 and have forgotten most of what I've learned about this car. Is this from the CID?
Will the car run without the CID and would the timing belt chew up the wire if it was hanging?

Thanks in advance.

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

that is some kind of harness connection seal. Lots of connections under the hood have them. MAF, TPS, etc. Its designed to keep dust and moisture out of the conector.

Unless not having it allowed water into a connection and that caused your problems, it shouldnt do any harm not having it.

 

[timshosvt]

that is some kind of harness connection seal. Lots of connections under the hood have them. MAF, TPS, etc. Its designed to keep dust and moisture out of the conector.

Unless not having it allowed water into a connection and that caused your problems, it shouldnt do any harm not having it.

If there is this type of seal on any connector, it means it's unhooked. Does the CID have one?

 

[TicoSHO]

It looks like the seal that was on my CCRM. When I changed mine out I couldn't get the piece to sit right and screw down tight with it so I have mine sitting in the little box under the radio. Haven't had any problems (related to the CCRM) since.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

It could be to the CID, TPS, Coil pack, or MAF

 

[SASHO91]

ok when you say Right front... is that driver side or passenger side....

The correct way is.... IF it is the right side as you have stated, it would be the passenger side of the car.. if it was the driver side, it is the left side..

just want to clear things up...

An easy way, just pull all the mentioned sensors and see which one dosent have the seal in it....

i would put my money on the CPS though....

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

Just to make make sure this is clear.

If there is this type of seal on any connector, it means it's unhooked.

NO, it DOESNT mean that it is unplugged. It just means that one ore more connections WERE unplugged at one time, and the seal fell out. They can fall out quite easy.

 

[timshosvt]

Just to make make sure this is clear.




NO, it DOESNT mean that it is unplugged. It just means that one ore more connections WERE unplugged at one time, and the seal fell out. They can fall out quite easy.

The seal was from the empty female connector that resides on a wire that is located near the ECT sensor. The one that isn't plugged in, and just to make sure this is clear, I was looking for something that suddenly became unplugged and caused the car to misbehave. Thanks for the input.