Exposed wires causing loss of power
09-14-2014, 11:42 AM
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Exposed wires causing loss of power
I picked up my Cobalt yesterday and before when I looked at it the lady told me there was some exposed wires that a dealer looked at and said it would need to be fixed soon. Whenever you touch them, or something hits them the car bogs down and loses power. I dont know what theyre for.. The wire cover or whatever its called is right next to them, if I cover them with that and maybe wrap it with eletrical tape do you think that'll work? Thanks
Edit: They are on the right top corner of the engine
Edit: They are on the right top corner of the engine
09-14-2014, 12:17 PM
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09-14-2014, 12:53 PM
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Well if you could move them and it would cause the car to run funky, i bet there is a break in the wires somewhere. Or insulation ripped and there is a bare wire grounding out somewhere. I would thoroughly, and I mean very very thoroughly inspect all those wires. If you're 110% positive that there is no breaks (try pulling on them both ways) and no bare wire showing, then just put tape around all of them (not individually, like i said earier) and then the loom.
I said to tape each one individually thinking there was bare wire showing...
I said to tape each one individually thinking there was bare wire showing...
09-14-2014, 07:13 PM
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lol why dont you take one of those shitty supercharger casings of yours and sit on it, i see exposed wires in a poor cell phone shot going into a connector with a purple clip. On LE5's that would be the front camshaft position sensor. The OP made no mention of the fact that it was an LSJ. Don't be butthurt because I'm actually trying to diagnose and help the OP where as you rob people.
Last edited by TStone; 09-14-2014 at 07:13 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
09-14-2014, 07:29 PM
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supercharger porting, the only thing i ever criticized was that he had no actual evidence to back up that crazy ass christmas tree port. Two back to back dyno's using different size pulleys isnt good methodology to prove your theory correct. As since its already been openly stated by eaton and eaton experts on plenty of other websites besides CSS that modifying the outlet to such an extreme hurts power rather then helping it, i find it hard to believe that one random guy has reinvented the wheel. I never said anything about his head porting and his work on those LK9 manifolds looked quite good to be honest.
09-14-2014, 08:55 PM
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I believe that's the correct connector, but dont quote me on it, I dont have an LSJ in front of me to verify that. If the harness has suffered damage in that area id replace the connector and the length of wires associated with it, they can still be loose in the connector or damaged that can cause an intermittent connection.
