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1980 242 wire identification problem 200 1980

Hiya!

I've got an '80 242 that I picked up recently that I'm trying to bring back to life. When I got under the hood, I saw the wire harness in the engine bay had "ye ol' rot" pretty bad so I pedaled down to my local hardware and picked up some wire and connectors and proceeded to snip, solder, and tape my way back to something that will conduct electricity.

The job went smoothly enough except for two little hiccups, one of which has me stumped. Both problems are at the big gray junction block at the back of the engine bay where the engine harness joins the rest. I did a good job of labeling everything that I disconnected, but one label managed to slip off, the one for the temp sensor on the side of the block on the intake side. Now I know what you're going to say, you're gonna say, "OK so you lost one label, but if everything else was labeled and plugged in, then naturally the only one left is the one you want." This would work except that for some reason I have TWO lines left at the big gray junction, but only one line left on my harness. Soooo, what is the extra line?

The two wires at the junction are a solid green and a solid yellow. As mentioned before, the extra line on the harness side is the temp sensor that I'm pretty sure goes to the temp gauge in the dash (it's the single wire one, not the double wire one for the cold start injector), and I think it's the yellow line if I read that correctly on the fuzzy photocopy of the wiring diagram I have. but I have no idea what the green line goes to.

Any suggestions? Sorry I know this rambled a bit, I hope it makes sense.

thanks!!!

Will-






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