What's this electrical part
Team Owner
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From: Orange Park Florida
Pix kinda small, but from what I see, iit's a Interfearance capacitor, filter, for the old AM radio...aided in spark noise or alternator noise supression....yes, it's factory added in probably in St. Louis as a last minit fix....
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From: ElP TX
Thanks for the help. If you click on the thumb it will give you a large pic.
Instructor
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From: St Louis Missouri
I have that same thing on my 75. I think it's attached to the brake light switch. I couldn't come up with a good reason to get rid of it. It's nice to know that it may not have been a previous owner fix
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i agree it's a capacitor, but i doubt that the factory in st louis used splices like that, lol!! in my opinion it was definitely added after the fact (chances are by a previous owner after they removed some of the ignition shielding, lol). you probably will find one on the turn signal flasher (in my car under the glove box in the passenger compartment) to serve the same purpose.
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i agree it's a capacitor, but i doubt that the factory in st louis used splices like that, lol!! in my opinion it was definitely added after the fact (chances are by a previous owner after they removed some of the ignition shielding, lol). you probably will find one on the turn signal flasher (in my car under the glove box in the passenger compartment) to serve the same purpose.
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i agree it's a capacitor, but i doubt that the factory in st louis used splices like that, lol!! in my opinion it was definitely added after the fact (chances are by a previous owner after they removed some of the ignition shielding, lol). you probably will find one on the turn signal flasher (in my car under the glove box in the passenger compartment) to serve the same purpose.
Burning Brakes
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From: Hudson Falls, N.Y. 76 Vette Modified L-48
Try the radio with it in and without...unless you're an avid AM radio fan, I doubt you'll notice a difference without it in line....testing!!! 1,2,3, testing!!!
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