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    What is this sensor? and what's the effect of its being disconnected?


    The one marked No. 19.
    When I was removing the air cleaner box, I was surprised to find that the vacuum hose connected to No.19 was disconnected. Now, I connected the vacuum hose, and the car seems running a lot better especially the idle quality at a cold start.
    Can anyone enlighen me what the effect of this sensor is?
    Maybe it's just a coincidence, but if my rough cold start idle is related to this, I might need not to try to figure it out anymore.
    Thanks.
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    Re: What is this sensor? and what's the effect of its being disconnected?

    "Air bleed valve"
    Tts a metal leaf spring that shuts when cold and opens when hot to control the hot air intake diaphragm #15.
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    Re: What is this sensor? and what's the effect of its being disconnected?

    The design of that is to maintain a constant intake air temperature; however, I've found that it's necessary in cold weather during warming up in order to keep the carburetor from icing up a bit, despite a coolant line to it. It could be helping it run better because of that, or just making the fuel-air mixture more favorable if you were running a little lean.

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    Re: What is this sensor? and what's the effect of its being disconnected?

    There are TWO air bleeder valves in the air cleaner box. According to the manual, the one I refered to is Air Bleeder Valve B, which is connected to Vacuum Hose #33. (#19 in the parts picture.)
    The one related to Intake Air Controll Diaphragm is called Air Bleeder Valve A, which is connected to Vacuum Hose #8. (#20 in the parts picture.) The Hot air door seems working correctly. (it stayed up for about 5min, and then close).
    After examining the vacuum diagram, I still could not figure out the effect of Air Bleeder Valve B at Hose #33 being disconnected. EGR?
    1989 Honda Accord DX Coupe
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    Re: What is this sensor? and what's the effect of its being disconnected?

    Sorry, my error.

    After close examination, the vacuum hose is connected to an open hole inside the air cleaner.
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