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Originally Posted by ztim
There is a wire bundle going to something that is mounted on the same bracket with the alternator. It has some sort of linkage going under the air filter. The wire bundle is plugged into that thing and has one lone wire half way down the bundle sticking out. I though it may go to the alt, but when I grounded it the check engine light came on. I looked my Haynes manual but it does not say anything that I can find. Any ideas? Thanks
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First, what car and what engine. Over the last hundred years or so, Olds used lots of different "sort of linkage" things.
Having said that, what you've described sounds like the cruise control actuator. There should be a four or five wire plug and a vacuum hose going to it and a rod about 5/16" in diameter going to the carb lever. Is that what we're talking about?