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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:15 pm    Post subject: What is this? Reply with quote

It looks like a relay of some kind and is mounted to the firewall under the gas tank but above the transmission. At the moment, it isn't hooked up to anything.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a starter relay to help with hard starts.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That was my first though initially.
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