Intake manifold wire

[alaskaviper]

So I was fixing some items on my Jeep I just bought. It is an 83 CJ7 with a AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l and has a howell TBI. I took the intake manifold off and on the bottom there is a wire that is cut. I can't figure out where it goes to. Also what is the peice that the wire is attached to?

 

[Jimbos76cj]

That goes to what I like to call the intake heater?? If you look straight down into the intake you will see some long prongs standing up. I can only guess that those heat up to help with the fuel burning.. or it may also be some weird crude intake air temp thing.. either way I ripped my wire out when I did the nutter bypass and it runs fine now. The plate just holds the prongy peice in.. IF you really want to hook it back up I can get you a pic of the wire if its still in my harness.

 

[alaskaviper]

Thats what I was thinking but ome other stuff i looked up howed the heater somewhere else. My intake has the wire cut off at the intake and i think the PO did the nutter bypass when they did the TBI kit. So maybe thats why its cut. That picture was one i found just for referance purposes. Thanks, I guess I won't worry about it.

 

[Jimbos76cj]

I may be wrong but if your running a TBI conversion I think the nutter has to be done. The nutter circumvents the stock computer for the CJ.