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Old 06-02-2007, 08:05 PM
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MAF wire mod

Guys if you find you self stuck in a desert with broken wires on the MAF plug here is the perfect fix. All you need if a couple of safety pins and some scotch tape and the problem is solved.
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Old 06-02-2007, 08:28 PM
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Good number 8 wire stuff. I trust no one was left with their nickers in a twist.

This should be in the technical section as it is a fix for any plug/socket connector problem. Pins, nails, hairclips, the list goes on and having the most likely donor on hand, will ice the cake.
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Old 06-03-2007, 12:18 AM
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I'll move it. I will have to remember this for when I go out into the desert.
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I've used a dinner knife to replace a fuse that kept blowing... the ignition fuse.

took me a long while to find a previous owners messed up modification that left a loose wire that would swing around in the enginebay shorting on occasion.

BTW dinnerknife fuses are good for some fairly epic lightshows at times so I only reccomend it if the alternative is worse.
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Old 06-04-2007, 03:47 AM
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I've used a dinner knife to replace a fuse that kept blowing... the ignition fuse.

took me a long while to find a previous owners messed up modification that left a loose wire that would swing around in the enginebay shorting on occasion.

BTW dinnerknife fuses are good for some fairly epic lightshows at times so I only reccomend it if the alternative is worse.
THe light show could very well encompass the whole car and the occupants.

Not a good one to be recorded in the how too data.
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Old 06-04-2007, 04:02 AM
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Used cirigrette paper as a fuse on a Black & White TV years ago. It fixed it permently, smoked up the house pretty bad.
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well thats the nice thing about a dinner knife, it stuck far enough out that the one time the intermittant short (once a week for 1sec or less) became a hard short I just kicked the knife out...

Still in all I recomend for smarter people than I was then to only use such methods to get your car out of heavy traffic or the like and not for er... driving around town..
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well thats the nice thing about a dinner knife, it stuck far enough out that the one time the intermittant short (once a week for 1sec or less) became a hard short I just kicked the knife out...

Still in all I recomend for smarter people than I was then to only use such methods to get your car out of heavy traffic or the like and not for er... driving around town..
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yah, I am. Thanks.

not really been around much. Thinking about playing with the SVX I got for a winterbeater a few years back now... so getting back into it. Too long with the WRX/STi crowd.
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