need help,where does ground go?
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need help,where does ground go?
I pulled injectors for some cleaning, noticed more and more broken and stripped wires so im going to start repairing them. theirs a ground by the EEC has a bare metal wire in it that goes to the harness wraps up with the pip, spout, and ign grd. and ends at the TFI. the bare metal ground is cut of a ways from the tfi connector and was taped off, where is that ground supposed to go? 88 bronco 4x4, dist mounted tfi.
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I have an 89 2.9. I don't see a gound by the spount on mine. I have a metal ground from the back of the block on the left bank up to a fastener on the firewall. This is a separate gound wire, not splice in to anything else. Cheers
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nope, not the one. one i'm trying to find out about has a bare ground wire that is wrapped alum heatshied lookin tape along with the pip spout and ign grd wires, grounded at the EEC and runs through the harness to the dist.
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That's the PIP shield ground. Some are not grounded at the engine block and some are depends on vehicle. But it is grounded at the ECU to keep signal noise out of the PIP. Do a OHM check with it to batt gnd and you should have contunity of less than 2 ohms, any thing over you will have issues with crappy engine running.
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If you have no spark, the distributor mounted control module would be a good candidate. It sounds like your coil is checking out good. The parts stores can check the control module, and the test is reliable, in my experience.
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