Hi folks, I'm at the strangest impasse. I'm putting together my '99 Boxster's plenum. I had removed it to put a new oil fill tube in, among other things. I remember taking off the plenum and it was very straightforward, two electical connectors, the throttle position sensor, which has a nice orange gasket, and the idle air stabilizer, which has a small metal bar that has to be depressed to remove. Both have 3 prongs. Upon reassembling, it all seemed fine till I got to the idle air stabilizer. The connector with the metal bar suddenly has 5 prongs. There's no way in hell it'll fit onto my throttle body. For the life of me I cannot figure out what's going on, or where this 5-prong connector goes. Did I lose some type of adapter? Anyone been through this before? Thank you. Steve Los Angeles
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I have to turn my head sideways to be sure, but I think it goes like this:
Thank you for that, but the orange gasketed one is the throttle body position sensor, fits very nicely in there. I'm pretty sure the big 5-lead connector is my reverse light connector, which somehow made it's way up from downstairs (my transmission is removed). That's actually good news which means I just have to find that other 3-prong connector with a metal bar.
Got it figured out. Somehow that 3-prong connector managed to hide itself extremely well lodged between the power steering reservoir and intake manifold. Once that was done it was time for reassembly of... everything! Got the plenum back in and associated hardware, then bolted the flywheel on, disk and pressure plate. Put new transmission mounts on their stalks. I'll be ready to install the transmission tomorrow morning. Yay! Thank you all, Steve S Los Angeles.
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