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Subject:Re: strange white wire...
From:David Marshall
Date:Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:41:25 -0700

White is usually the color of the fuel pump, but it would be a very un-safe
thing to do to run it off of the 15 terminal (12V with key on) as if you
ever got into an accident, the fuel pump would keep running and woof - fire!

At 11:31 PM 16/04/2000 EDT, David Cooper wrote:
>There is a white wire which is spliced into the wire coming off the 15
>terminal of my ignition coil.  It leaves the engine compartment and then dead
>ends underneath the van.  I discovered it while replacing the heater cable on
>the passenger side.  Does anyone have a clue as to what this wire might have
>been for?  Is this just something left by the PO?  Thanks in advance...
>Coop
>
>

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