Dumb question maybe.....
Dumb question maybe.....
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From: Castlegar, BC
The pic is hard to see but it has 2 black wires coming out of it and they are both cut off.
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From: Castlegar, BC
I haven't found anything alarmish looking, but it does have an OEM remote starter, is it possibly a hood switch for that?
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Yes the piece on the hood is cut off, but there are two wires lower hooked to the pass-throughs. If it were something like an alarm the cut off the wire off the bracket that might have been a sensor wire that went through the firewall instead of being spliced, but those two wires other could end in a pigtail in the cab off the pass-throughs that match a power connector to something. If one thing is weird, look at ALL the weird stuff to try to gleen a better picture.
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From: Norlina NC
i agree with the others... most likely the merc switch for an alarm since the 2 running next to it are the wires for the underhood light...
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Yes the piece on the hood is cut off, but there are two wires lower hooked to the pass-throughs. If it were something like an alarm the cut off the wire off the bracket that might have been a sensor wire that went through the firewall instead of being spliced, but those two wires other could end in a pigtail in the cab off the pass-throughs that match a power connector to something. If one thing is weird, look at ALL the weird stuff to try to gleen a better picture.
Also, under the dash were 2 random wires coming from the remote start module, a purple with white stripe and a grey. The purple is for the tach signal (or so I've read) and the grey is for the hood sensor (so I read), which, aside from this weird doo dad, I see no evidence of.
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I have determined that this is a hood switch for the remote start, and that the mysterious 2 wires under the dash were for this, and the tach wire which was spliced into an injector wire.
The remote start still doesn't work, but that's another story.
The remote start still doesn't work, but that's another story.
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