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My 1980 Volvo DL has a broken wire at the wiring harness connector.

The rectangular connector I'm talking about is near the top center of

the firewall in the engine compartment, and looks like this:


o   o


o   o


o   o


x


(each 'o' being a connecting point for a wire)  At the lowest row,

there is only one wire connected, marked 'x' here, which is badly

corroded/broken.


Without the latter wire connection, it is very hard to start the

engine, although it runs fine once it gets started (in addition, with

the broken connection, the car is even harder to start when it's hot).


When I do a makeshift re-connection of the badly corrected wire to the

'x' point, the car starts ok.


Can anybody out there tell me what this wire is about?  Why is the car

very hard to start when it's missing?


Thanks for any advice and information.


Wolfgang,

Santa Barbara, California


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