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    Unhappy vacuum advance solenoid ?

    looking at the motor from the front of car , on the left side towards the back i have a red and green wire with a connector tab on the end of it,coming off the main harness and i dont know where it hooks to,i think it hooks to either the vacuum advance solenoid or it is for yhe pgmfi ind. light and im not sure where these are ,i need a pic please
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    you don't have a PGMFI light if you are carbureted... (LX DX usualy are carbureted unless the motor was swapped)
    Does your temp guage work? ... it may also be for the oil pressure sender... I forgot what color the wires were...

    it may also be the ground wire that connects to the thermostat housing...

    What kind of connection tab is it? is it a large plastic connector or a small bullet connector?

    if it's a plastic connector what color is the plastic?
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    the connector is a small tab ,looks like another tab (flat) might slide into it .it is metal. red and green wire, same colr wire coming off the back of carb on the solenoid.looks like someone ran a hot wire from the deal just above where the main plug wire olugs into ,the left side towards the top by the fender, the hot wire connects to the red and green wire.when i disconnect it the engine idles high.
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    Is it the round thingy here?



    "..when i disconnect it the engine idles high"
    Hmm.. should be the other way around!

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    It may connect to the starter... if it has the flat tab... casue thats the only wire that I know of with that kind of connection.

    Dan your pic isn'tworking
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    show me a pic and i will show u
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    Can't believe u guys cannot see the pic. Try this:
    http://www.geocities.com/accord89lx/...edrearview.jpg
    Uh, almost forgot, courtesy A20A1.

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    it says the page is not available... ahaha damn and it's on my site too... sheesh.. didn't realize that... I'll see if i have it on my comp.
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    hey you said it didn't have a plastic connection on it... but the one from the carb has a clear/white plastic connector.

    hehe I wish I had a digi cam.

    well here are some pics...
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    if you disconnect that wire you're car will stop flowing fuel to the idle passage.

    but who knows... maybe you were running really rich at idle... and somehow disconnecting the solenoid helped.
    - llia


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    actually it is impossible to idle engine without this solenoid. i tried already. no matter how rich i make it, it just doesn't want to keep idle. it will run fine but it will not idle.
    Alex.

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    hrm... must have too much throttle
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