Does anyone know what this part is?
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Looks like some kind of temperature controller for those electric fans. It's a shoddy job of shoe-horning salvaged parts into a C3, but may work just fine. If it does, I would certainly suggest that you clean up the horrid wiring job done previously. Also, the power for the fans/controller should be fed directly from the battery or from the primary alternator stud, so that the current load isn't going to damage other [smaller] power wires.
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Not sure I will ask the guy helping me I think it is connected from what I saw yesterday, not sure where the hose connects to..going back to work on it Tue I will look into it..Thank you!
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5th Gear
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From: Jacksonville North Carolina (NC)
Lol you are right on that one there are so many wires we cant figure out where half of them go...it's a mess!
Looks like some kind of temperature controller for those electric fans. It's a shoddy job of shoe-horning salvaged parts into a C3, but may work just fine. If it does, I would certainly suggest that you clean up the horrid wiring job done previously. Also, the power for the fans/controller should be fed directly from the battery or from the primary alternator stud, so that the current load isn't going to damage other [smaller] power wires.
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Never heard of such a thing. I have an electric air pump on my 1995 Oldsmobile Silhouette for the air suspension system, but it is larger than that, and under the back floor. Lou.
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I too thought it was the A.I.R. pump.
Not to be confused with an air suspension compressor - this is the system that puts fresh air into the exhaust to catalyze the burning of unburnt fuel.
Not to be confused with an air suspension compressor - this is the system that puts fresh air into the exhaust to catalyze the burning of unburnt fuel.