[s-cars] ECU Fuse - Bentley - Frayed Wiring

[manuelsanchez at starpower.net]

Most of the splices are just outside the cover, but because of the jumnble of wires is trying to exit the cover they get pinched and twisted to try and get thru the opening.

I'd love to see the factory tool that helps align all those wires so they exitsmoothly and cleanly.

-manny

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:29:01 -0700
>From: <calvinlc at earthlink.net>  
>Subject: RE: [s-cars] ECU Fuse - Bentley - Frayed Wiring  
>To: <manuelsanchez at starpower.net>, <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Cc: <wmahoney at disk.com>, <s.richter at comcast.net>, <pkrasusky at ups.com>, <trgreen at comcast.net>
>
>Who in the hell spliced the coil wires under the coil pack cover????  There
>is a reason the wires on the new packs are long.  Electrical tape in that
>environment?  Man....
>--Calvin
>
>
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>Subject: [s-cars] ECU Fuse - Bentley - Frayed Wiring
>
>
>S-Heads,
>
>Frayed Insulation at Coil Wiring
>I took the coil pack off and found 2 wires with frayed insulation near the
>junction where it enters the head.  I now have a love hate relationship with
>electrical tape---again. Looks like these coils were indeed replaced at some
>time, but the splices were done at this junction point. It's funny becuse
>the reason I picked up this spare was that we old coils were replaced in
>this same manner and I wanted a set that weren't spliced at this point.
>Nuts.
>
>
>ECU Fuses
>I looked at my fuses in the footwell again. What I see does not seem to jibe
>with the Bentley.
>
>This is what I have, from left (closest to transmission tunnel) to right
>
>Black Plastic Fuse Connector
>Wires: RED wire /  BLUE wire
>Fuse: 10 Amp
>
>Tan Plastic Fuse Connector
>Wires: BLUE  /  Black with Red stripe
>Fuse - 15A
>
>Red PLastic Fuse Connector
>Wires: RED / Black with White stripe
>Fuse: 5A
>
>Yellow Plastic Fuse Connector
>Wires: BLACK  / Green and Purple Stripe
>Fuse-15A
>
>OK, so for me it was the Yellow Connector fuse that blew, and the engine
>immediately died the other night.
>
>Looking at the Electronic Bentley on P24-27, Diagram 24-544 I see something
>very similar to what I have except that Bentley only shows 3 plastic fuse
>connectors and I seem to have 4.
>
>Bentley shows the following:
>
>Black Holder
>Evaporative Emissions Evap frequency valve circuit breaker (S-75)
>Unless I am looking at the wrong thing, which certainly is possible, I have
>a fuse, not one of those silver circuit breaker things.
>
>Brown Holder (Mine looks Tan to me, but I gues tan and brown are close
>enough?)
>Injector Valve Circuit  (S-72)
>
>Yellow Holder
>Heated Oxygen Sensor (S-73)
>
>So the Bentley does not seem to have my Red Holder.
>
>A few questions
>1. Have I been sniffing the modeling glue again and I am looking in the
>completely wrong place?
>2. Presuming my Yellow Holder and the Yellow holder in the Bentley are
>indeed the same, this means that if that fuse blows for the Heated Oxygen
>Sensor it will stall the engine--yes?
>3. WHere should I looke for faults in the Heated Oxygen Sensor? I replaced
>the o2 sensor about a year or 2 ago with the expensive OEM part, no splicey
>dicey.
>4. Does a 15A fuse for a heated 02 sensor circuit sound kosher to you guys?
>5. Is the Brown Holder 5A fuse I have what some of you guys who responded
>that a 15A fuse was way too much thinking of?
>
>I must admit, wiring diagrams give me a slight headache.
>
>Although I have been driving around with a 15A fuse in the yellow holder for
>years now, you 5A guys have me paranoid now, so the car is sitting under the
>tree for now.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>-Manny
>95.5 UrS6 Avant
>
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